Description |
1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Urban and industrial environments
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Urban and industrial environments.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Water, Space, and Power -- Water and the Nascent Civic Realm -- Engineering the Technological Sublime -- Urban Decay and the Hidden City -- Paranoid Urbanism -- Hydrological Transformations -- Symbolic Order and the Urban Pastoral -- Cultural Anxiety, Land Speculation, and Public Space -- Creating the Garden of a Great City -- Olmsted's Urban Vision: A Fragile Synthesis -- Olmsted Rediscovered: An Emerging Preservationist Ethic -- Emerald Dreams -- Technological Modernism and the Urban Parkway -- Automobilization of the American Landscape -- Robert Moses and the Radiant City -- Demise of Technological Modernism -- Fractured Cities -- Between Borinquen and the Barrio -- Landscapes of Despair -- Space, Identity, and Power -- Disarray in the 1970s -- Power of Memory -- Rustbelt Ecology -- Across the Great Divide -- Pollution and the Politics of Resistance -- Reclaiming the Social Environment -- Trash Can Utopias. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Human ecology -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Human ecology. |
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects. |
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Land use, Urban -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Land use, Urban. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and clay. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262072246 (DLC) 2001054604 (OCoLC)48256398 |
ISBN |
9780262273442 (electronic book) |
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0262273446 (electronic book) |
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0585437238 (electronic book) |
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9780585437231 (electronic book) |
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