Coastal metropolis : environmental histories of modern New York City /

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Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zimring, Carl A., 1969- (Editor ), Corey, Steven H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:History of the urban environment.
Temas:
Sustainable urban development > New York (State) > New York.
Sustainability > New York (State) > New York.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanisme durable.
Urbanisme durable > New York (État) > New York.
Durabilité de l'environnement > New York (État) > New York.
Écologie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
Sustainable urban development
New York (N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : water, infrastructure, and wastescapes
  • 1. Land use and environmental change in the Hudson-Raritan estuary region, 1700-1980, with an addendum to 2018
  • 2. A hinge in history, environmental transformation of New York's Jamaica Bay
  • 3. The Health of the Harbor
  • 4. The Rockaway commute, 1950-2017 a long, strange trip
  • 5. Storm King Mountain and the modernization of American environmentalism
  • 6. Restoring the Bronx River, local reclamation and festive rebranding in postindustrial New York City
  • 7. Disposing waste in an island city
  • 8. Marketing a nuisance, sanitary landfilling as economic development at the1939 World's Fair
  • 9. Gone and unlamented, citizen activism, ocean dumping, and incineration in New York City, 1876-1998
  • 10. Learning how to dredge in the age of ecology, the mud dump site and the New York bight
  • 11. Composting and garbage in New York City a twentieth-century history
  • 12. Reading Newtown Creek, competing narratives of New York City's aquatic discardscape
  • 13. Tough guys on the waterfront, neoliberalism and the rise of resilient New York
  • Conclusion : on the rising tide.

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