Karl Haglund is project manager for the New Charles River Basin at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
A remarkable and beautiful book outlining the origins of the famed and admired Charles River. —Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah a superb book. —The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine ...[a] fascinating fact-packed and photo-filled book. —Boston Metro Haglund has fascinating stories to tell...serious students of urban development will be engrossed. —H. Nolan, ASLA Inventing the Charles River is a fascinating account of how a great urban area acquired its current shape. —Philip Langdon, New Urban News Inventing the Charles River makes it hard to think about the Charles in the same way again. —Max Page, Architecture Boston ...lavishly illustrated with maps, etchings, lithographs, drawings, paintings, and photographs... —APA ...[Tells] a sweeping, detailed story of the directed evolution that produced the Charles that Bostonians and tourists cherish today. —Civil Engineering The book swells with Haglund's excellent research and hundreds of illuminating maps, photographs, and plans. —Michael B. Shavelson, Bostonia Throughly fascinating... —Michael Kenney, Boston Globe