Boston adalah ibu kota dan kota terbesar di Massachusetts di Amerika Serikat; berdiri 1630 sebagai koloni utama Perusahaan Teluk Massachusetts. Boston juga adalah ibu kota dari wilayah tidak resmi New England. Kota ini salah satu kota tertua dan terkaya di A.S., dengan ekonomi berbasis di pendidikan, perawatan kesehatan, keuangan, dan teknologi tinggi. Nama julukannya termasuk "Beantown", "The Hub", dan "Atena Amerika", karena pengaruhnya terhadapa budaya, intelektual, dan politik.
Selama akhir abad ke-18, Boston adalah tempat dari beberapa peristiwa besar selama Revolusi Amerika, termasuk Pembantaian Boston dan Boston Tea Party. Beberapa pertempuran awal Revolusi Amerika, seperti Pertempuran Bunker Hill dan Pengepungan Boston, terjadi di dalam kota dan sekitarnya. Melalui reklamasi tanah dan pencaplokan kota, Boston menjadi berkembang. Setelah kemerdekaan Amerika tercapai Boston menjadi pelabuhan pengiriman utama dan pusat manufaktur, dan sejarahnya yang kaya mampu membantu menarik 16,3 juta pengunjung setiap tahunnya. Kota ini adalah tempat dari beberapa infrastruktur penting pertama di Amerika, termasuk sekolah umum pertama, Sekolah Latin Boston (1635), dan sistem kereta bawah tanah pertama di Amerika Serikat. Boston adalah Kota yang terkenal dengan Tim Basketnya, Boston Celtics. Yang sudah 0,5 kali menjadi Juara NBA.
Serta tim marching band di kota boston ialah Boston Crusaders Drum And Bugle Corps
Kependudukan dan Geografi
Menurut sensus tahun 2000, penduduknya berjumlah 1 juta jiwa.
Ekonomi
Merupakan pusat perdagangan, keuangan, industri dan kebudayaan; pelabuhan besar. Pusat perdagangan ikan dan wol; ada bermacam industri, galangan kapal. Pusat percetakan.
Beberapa Fakta
Sejak semula pusat kaum Puritan. Boston menjadi makmur berkat industri dan perkapalan di sungai-sungai Inggris Baru. Pengaruh orang-orang yang membawa perubahan dulu masih terasa, lama setelah perkembangan industri menarik banyak pendatang (semula orang Irlandia) ke situ. Kota yang makin besar itu menganeksasi kota di dekatnya.
Peninggalan Sejarah
Gedung-gedung yang mengingatkan zaman lampau banyak sekali, seperti, Majelis Boston, dsb. Didirikan Orkestra Simfoni (1881) dan Museum Kesenian; Universitas Simmons untuk wanita (1902); Universitas Boston (1871), dll.
Di dalam Video Game
Boston juga terkenal di dalam game-game serial 3D untuk Playstation, yaitu "The Last of Us", dsb.
Referensi
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Bluestone, Barry; Stevenson, Mary Huff (2002). The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-072-1.
Bolino, August C. (2012). Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-3376-5.
Christopher, Paul J. (2006). 50 Plus One Greatest Cities in the World You Should Visit. Encouragement Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-933766-01-0.
Hull, Sarah (2011). The Rough Guide to Boston (edisi ke-6). Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4053-8247-2.
Kennedy, Lawrence W. (1994). Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-87023-923-6.
Morris, Jerry (2005). The Boston Globe Guide to Boston. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-3430-6.
Vorhees, Mara (2009). Lonely Planet Boston City Guide (edisi ke-4). Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-1-74179-178-5.
Wechter, Eric B.; et al. (2009). Fodor's Boston 2009. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-0699-1. Pemeliharaan CS1: Penggunaan et al. yang eksplisit (link)
Bacaan lanjutan
Beagle, Jonathan M.; Penn, Elan (2006). Boston: A Pictorial Celebration. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-1977-6.
Brown, Robin (2009). Boston's Secret Spaces: 50 Hidden Corners In and Around the Hub (edisi ke-1). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-5062-7.
Hantover, Jeffrey; King, Gilbert (2008). City in Time: Boston. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4027-3300-0.
O'Connor, Thomas H. (2000). Boston: A to Z. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00310-1.
Price, Michael; Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2000). Boston's immigrants, 1840–1925. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0921-4.
Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David; Turner, Amy, ed. (2001). Mapping Boston. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-61173-2.
Seasholes, Nancy S. (2003). Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19494-5.
Shand-Tucci, Douglass (1999). Built in Boston: City & Suburb, 1800–2000 (edisi ke-2). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-201-1.
Southworth, Michael; Southworth, Susan (2008). AIA Guide to Boston, 3rd Edition: Contemporary Landmarks, Urban Design, Parks, Historic Buildings and Neighborhoods (edisi ke-3). Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-0-7627-4337-7.
Vrabel, Jim (2004). When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-620-6.
Whitehill, Walter Muir; Kennedy, Lawrence W. (2000). Boston: A Topographical History (edisi ke-3). Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00268-5.
Pranala luar
Boston di Curlie (dari DMOZ)
City of Boston official website
Historical Maps of Boston from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data Diarsipkan 2008-04-07 di Wayback Machine. from Tufts University, with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and The Bostonian Society
Maps of income, landfill growth, public transport, and squares from Radical Cartography Boston Evening Transcript, Google news archive.—PDFs of 14,086 issues, dating from 1851 to 1915.
Boston.com: Local breaking news, sports, weather, and things to do
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