O’Connell, Shaun. “Imagining Boston: The City as Image and Experience.”

New England Journal of Public Policy. In it, he uses the example of William Dean Howells to demonstrates the stages of emotional development that Boston frequently induces: “First enchantment, as the outsider seeks to match the city upon a hill of his imagination with the Boston he sees; then development, as Boston prods the newcomer to articulate his full powers; finally disenchantment, as Boston’s narrow geographic, aesthetic, and moral territories close in.”