Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination /

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Fluid New York offers reflections on how New York began to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future in the decade between September 11 and Hurricane Sandy.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joseph, May (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Cosmopolitanism > New York (State) > New York.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York.
Cosmopolitisme > New York (État) > New York.
Écologie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Civilization.
Cosmopolitanism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
New York (N.Y.) > Civilization > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Civilization > 21st century.
New York (State) > New York.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Water ecology, island city
  • Transoceanic New York, city of rivers
  • The maritime sky of Manhattan
  • Thinking metropolitanism
  • Nomadic urbanism and frugality
  • Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi : cultures of frugality
  • Greening hardscape
  • Marathon city, biking boroughs
  • Brooklyn carnival and the sale of dreamland
  • Spirits of the necropolis, planes on the Hudson
  • Governors Island : maritime pasts, ecological futures
  • After Hurricane Sandy
  • Conclusion: toward a praxis of cosmopolitan citizenship.

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