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Emerald city : an environmental history of Seattle /
"At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty, Boosters of the city have long capitalized on this splendor, recently likening it to the fairytale capital of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of O...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The fish that might save Seattle
- All the forces of nature are on their side : the unraveling of the mixed world
- The work which nature had left undone : making private property on the waterfront commons
- The imagination and creative energy of the engineer : harnessing nature's forces to urban progress
- Out of harmony with the wild beauty of the natural woods : artistry versue utility in Seattle's Olmsted parks
- Above the weary cares of life : the benefits and high social price of outdoor leisure
- Junk-yard for human junk : the unnatural ecology of urban poverty
- Death for a tired old river : ecological restoration and environmental inequity in postwar Seattle
- Masses of self-centered people : salmon and the limits of ecotopia in Emerald City
- The geography of hope : toward an ethic of place and a city of justice
- Epilogue.