Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City (History of the Urban Environment) - Hardcover

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9780822946526: Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City (History of the Urban Environment)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0822946521 ISBN 13: 9780822946526
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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 feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

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Carl A. Zimring is professor of sustainability studies in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. He is the author of Aluminum Upcycled, Clean and White, and The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste, and co-author of Technology and the Environment in History, among other titles.
 
Steven H. Corey is professor of history and dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. He co-authored America’s Urban History and Garbage! The History of Politics and Trash in New York City and co-edited The American Urban Reader: History and Theory.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822946521
ISBN 13 
9780822946526
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
264
Herausgeber
Zimring Carl A., Corey Steven H.
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