Sequent Occupance of a Boston Suburban Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4040982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward A Ackerman (corresponding author), Edward Ackerman |
| Year | 1941 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Publication date | 1941-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/141745 |
| OpenAlex | W2316188573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
are interesting as present-day adjustments to a New England metropolitan area, and their varied history makes them excellent subjects for a study in sequent occupance. One of the most typical of these towns is Concord, about twelve miles from the edge of metropolitan Boston. Its tributary area is notable not only for its size and fertility but also for the length of time that people have occupied it. Even in Indian days the soil here was tilled, subsistence farming (circa 1635-1775); the dairying and manufacturing periods (1775-1830); the period of rural depopulation (1830-1880); and the modern era of intensive truck gardening and residential property expansion. Behind each community, Indian, colonial, or modern, has lain a definite set of environmental factors-some, like climate or soil, unchanging, and others, such as relation to centers of population, or technical knowledge, never alike
Geography · Political science · Sequent · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2016 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |