Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future /

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"Cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist if they are to survive; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, the authors use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the pos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Eldredge, Niles (Autor), Horenstein, Sidney S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York.
Urban geography > New York (State) > New York.
Environmental degradation > New York (State) > New York.
Biodiversity > New York (State) > New York.
Écologie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Géographie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Environnement > Dégradation > New York (État) > New York.
Biodiversité > New York (État) > New York.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Biodiversity
Ecology
Environmental degradation
Historical geography
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban geography
New York (N.Y.) > Historical geography.
New York (N.Y.) > Environmental conditions.
New York (State) > New York
american cities.
biodiversity.
central park.
cities and natural environment.
city life.
collect pond.
concentrated humans.
contradictions.
crowded cities.
early railways.
ecosystems.
environmental studies.
environments.
future of global biodiversity.
geological history.
glacial features.
human existence.
manhattan island.
manhattan square.
microcosm.
nature.
new york city.
new york.
political.
politics.
railroads.
realistic.
solving environmental problems.
subway system.
survival.
urban areas.
urban studies.
urbanization.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Regarding broadway : the urban saga and the New York microcosm
  • Forest primeval
  • Building stones
  • Landscape transformed
  • Around the American Museum of Natural History
  • East River shoreline
  • Growth of the concrete jungle
  • Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street
  • Queensboro Bridge and East River
  • Fouling, and cleaning, the nest
  • The high bridge
  • Invasion and survival
  • John Torrey
  • Fort Tryon Park
  • The Battery
  • The Sea Wall
  • Resilience, restoration, and redemption
  • Canyonlands and the future
  • Cities, globalization, and the future of biodiversity.

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