Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... Part II. THE METR0P9LITAN AND SaBdRBAN SYSTEMS. Beside several notable park Improvements recently undertaken by various suburban municipalities, there has been established within the past two years, a very important and extensive system of metropolitan parks for the benefit of the cluster of municipalities known as "Greater Boston" and organized for this purpose as the Metropolitan Parks District. This district comprises thirty-seven municipalities: The twelve cities of Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, Maiden, Medford, Newton, Quincy, Somerville, Waltham and Woburn, and the twenty-five towns of Arlington, Belmont, Braintree, Brookline, Canton, Dedham, Dover, Hingham, Hull, Hyde Park, Melrose, Milton, Nahant. Needham, Revere, Saugus, Stoneham, SwaniDscott, Wakefield. Watertown, Wellesley, Weston, Weymouth, Winchester, and Winthrop. The population of this district is now something like a million. The outer fringe of more rural municipalities was include'! merely for potential reasons and can hardly be considered at present as otherwise belonging to the metropolitan group. For instance, the towns on the south shore of Boston bav and the outer towns on the Charles river include landscape features that, at some time in the future, may be desirable for reservation for public uses, and they were included in the district simply with a view to such contingencies. This great metropolitan undertaking came about in consequence of a strong public sentiment that in order to assure to the public the enjoyment of landscape beauties and the opportunities for ample recreation in the open air essential to the well-being of a great urban population some form of organized cooperation between the various municipal units of the Boston metropolitan group was necessary....
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