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		<title>15.  Culture Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A final pass at the genteel tradition,  before The Waste Land bursts upon us;  worth making not only to extend the matter from literature and architecture and landscape design to art &#8211;  sculpture  in   general   and in  particular  the   celebrated   bronze  of Bacchante by Frederick MacMonnies &#8211; but also in order to  show how many and various are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14.  Aedificaphobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on our discussion last time of the beneficial aspects of the genteel tradition,  particulary with respect to architecture and landscape design,  the question this week is,  do we all really want to live in a garden,  and an overgrown one at that?
First of all let us recapitulate somewhat.  Let us accept that if gentility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13. Genteel be green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the great court of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square,  a suitably literary venue,  my own muse &#8212; are historians allowed muses? &#8212; counsels discretion as this series of essays nears its end.  Let us pause then,  you and I,  and go about this new metropolis,  Eliotic we know now in two senses,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12. T. S. Eliot&#8217;s Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boston needs a new history !  Who is a Bostonian ?  The two provocations of this series come now together.  Seeing the metropolis from a jet or a space satelite,  rather than the time-honored view from the sea  (see  essay 10:  &#8220;Airborne revelations&#8221;)  what Boston has become today was the hinge.  Our tracking of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11. City-state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A world power is not the way most Bostonians today would describe their hometown.  Indeed,  150 years after Brookline said no,  that is still the widespread response alike of the core cities neighborhoods and what  James C. O&#8217;Connell calls the  &#8220;Boston-phobic suburbs&#8221;.  Is it dysfunctional,  I wonder,  Bostonian denial in this respect?  There is surely something  almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10.  Airborne Revelations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[H. H. Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted to Louis Sullivan and Charles Eliot and Frank Lloyd Wright:   from the new metropolitan civic center of Copley Square to Chicago,   and from the Richardsonian Boston suburbs to Taliesin via the Chicago suburb of  Oak Park;  a route   (my version of which, unconventionally, includes   landscape design) that  is  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9. &#8220;All the Boston towns&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before there was Brookline,  there was Cambridge;  in the sense,  that is,  of the original purpose-built American suburb.  By whom built and with what morivation &#8212; and with what entirely unexpected result,  finally &#8212; is to be discovered somewhere between the metropolitan attitudes of two of Cambridge&#8217;s leading Boston Brahmins, late 19th century landscape architect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8. Emerald Metropolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the 1900s,  the dismal local politics of city and suburb notwithstanding,  Boston had become something  &#8220;entirely new&#8221; in the western world according to historian Sam Bass Warner Jr.  &#8220;A mass,  suburban metropolis like Boston had never existed before anywhere in the world&#8221;,  that historian has written,  concluding at the end of the day,  so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backbayhistorical.org/blog/archives/712</link>
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		<title>7.  Idealist Bigots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If art and architecture  (beginning in the 1870s with Richardson and Olmsted)  and the emerging field of city planning and urbanistic thought  (beginning in the 1900s with Geddes and Mumford)  went far to accomplish what Greater Boston&#8217;s politicians couldn&#8217;t &#8212; the creation of a real sense of Boston metropolitan unity &#8212; there was a real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backbayhistorical.org/blog/archives/696</link>
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		<title>6.  Metropolis / Megalopolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[To] publish original scholarly work on a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide [because] the traditonal model of scholarly communication has become expensive,  restrictive and increasingly limited in its ability to make information accessible . . . the  eScholarship program was launched by the University of California in 2002.&#8221;   Because  for an independent scholar the traditional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backbayhistorical.org/blog/archives/681</link>
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