Coastal metropolis : environmental histories of modern New York City / edited by Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey.

ISBN:

9780822987987

Title:

Author:

Zimring, Carl A., 1969- editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Series:

History of the urban environment

History of the urban environment.

Contents:

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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Subject Term:

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

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- History.

New York (N.Y.) -- Histoire.

Added Author:

Zimring, Carl A., 1969-

Corey, Steven H.,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2762047

Publication Date:

2021

Publication Information:

Pittsburgh, Pa. :

University of Pittsburgh Press,

[2021]

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

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 .