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"Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gioielli, Robert R., 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2014]
Colección:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States > Case studies.
Sociology, Urban > United States > Case studies.
Sustainable urban development > United States > Case studies.
Environmentalism > United States > Case studies.
Écologie urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Urbanisme durable > États-Unis > Études de cas.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
HISTORY > General.
Environmentalism
Sociology, Urban
Sustainable urban development
Urban ecology (Sociology)
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Uncounted Environmentalists; Chapter 1
  • The Breakdown of the City; Chapter 2
  • "Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities" : St. Louis and the Fight against Lead Poisoning; Chapter 3
  • "We Must Destroy You to Save You" : Baltimore's Freeway Revolt; Chapter 4
  • The Knee-in-the-Groin Approach: The Citizen's Action Program and Environmental Protest in Chicago; Chapter 5
  • "City Dwellers Are in the Greatest Danger" : Urban Environmentalism in the 1970s; Conclusion
  • Missed Opportunities; Appendix: Archival Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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