First and foremost, my thanks to Christina Thompson, Harvard Design School Career Services, for her gracious and patient assistance with DreamWeaver and site design. This website would not exist without Christina's kind, good-natured guidance.

Thanks also to Peter Fernandez of the GSD's Computer Resources department, who got me started in the right direction with DreamWeaver. And to the Loeb Fellowship for affording me the freedom to explore new avenues of learning about landscape architecture and developing a new eye for interpreting landscapes. The students in Sites In Sight were an inspiration and Tad Read's encouragement helped me when DreamWeaver had me thoroughly flummoxed. Mary Daniels, Director of Special Collections in the Frances Loeb Library kindly provided a wealth of material on Charles Eliot and Sylvester Baxter.

Finally, to Anne Spirn, who graciously allowed me to audit the class and who first inspired me to focus on the urban environment more than twenty years ago with her seminal book, The Granite Garden. The Granite Garden continues to inspire me and my colleagues in our work to create more humane and ecologically sustainable cities. The Language of Landscape will have a similar impact in years to come.

Resources:
Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund; MIT Press, in cooperation with the Charles River Conservancy, 2003

Exploring the Hidden Charles, A Guide to Outdoor Activities on Boston's Celebrated River, Michael Tougias, Applachian Mountain Club, 1997.

The Charles River, exploring nature and history on foot and by canoe, Ron McAdow, Bliss Publishing, 1992.

Mapping Boston, Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner, ed., MIT Press, 1999.

Annual Report of Charles River Basin Commission, October 1, 1903. Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers. The Eliot Collection of Books on Landscape Architecture, Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University

Report of the Board of Metropolitan Commissioners, January 1893, The Eliot Collection of Books on Landscape Architecture, Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University.

Report of the Joint Board Upon The Improvement Of Charles River, From The Waltham Line To The Charles River Bridge, April, 1894. The Eliot Collection of Books on Landscape Architecture, Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University

Report of the Joint Board Upon The Improvement Of Charles River, From The Line Between Watertown To Mother Brook, May 1896. The Eliot Collection of Books on Landscape Architecture, Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University

Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston, Charles Eliot. Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University

First Report of the Charles River Improvement Commission, House No. 197. The Eliot Collection of Books on Landscape Architecture, Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University.

Charles Eliot: The Education Of A Landscape Architect, Judith B. Tankard, 1987. Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University.

The Charles River Conservancy website: www.charlesriverconservancy.org

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Urban Parks and Recreation, www.state.ma.us/mdc/. The former Metropolitan District Commission has been absorbed by this state agency.

 

 

 

 

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