PART 1: A CITY DIVIDED



1. Who Built the Metropolis?

2. Common Ideas and Experiences



PART 2: THE LARGE INSTITUTIONS



3. The Walking City

4. The Street Railways

5. Other Services to Home Builders

6. Common Patterns of Decision



PART 3: THE THREE TOWNS



7. The Discipline of History and Geography

8. The Three Towns, 1870-1900



PART 4: A SELECTIVE MELTING POT



9. The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns

10. The 1900 Segregation



PART 5: LEAVE OF SMALL PATTERNS



11. Central Dorchester

12. Tremont Street District

13. Roxbury Highlands



PART 6: REGULATION WITHOUT LAWS



14. The Home Builders

15. The Grid Street and Frontage Lot

16. Suburban Architecture



PART 7: THE CONSEQUENCES



Appendix: A Local Historian's Guide to Social Statistics

Appendix B: Tables

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index

Sam B. Warner, Jr. teaches History at Harvard University.

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