Main entry:

Gandy, Matthew.

Title & Author:

Concrete and clay : reworking nature in New York City / Matthew Gandy.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

xi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- The Automobilization of the American Landscape -- Robert Moses and the Radiant City -- The Demise of Technological Modernism -- Fractured Cities -- Between Borinquen and the Barrio -- Landscapes of Despair -- Space, Identity, and Power -- Disarray in the 1970s -- The Power of Memory -- Rustbelt Ecology -- Across the Great Divide -- Pollution and the Politics of Resistance -- Reclaiming the Social Environment -- Trash Can Utopias.

Summary:

In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.

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ISBN:

0262072246
9780262072243
0262572168 (pbk.)
9780262572163 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology) New York (State) New York.
Human ecology New York (State) New York.
City planning Environmental aspects New York (State) New York.
Land use, Urban New York (State) New York.
Écologie urbaine New York (État) New York.
Écologie humaine New York (État) New York.
Urbanisme Aspect de l'environnement New York (État) New York.
Utilisation urbaine du sol New York (État) New York.
City planning Environmental aspects
Human ecology
Land use, Urban
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Humanökologie
Stadtplanung
Stadtökologie
Natuurontwikkeling.
Urbanisatie.
Ecologische aspecten.
Ecologia urbana (Biologia) Nova York (Nova York).
Ecologia humana Nova York.
Urbanisme Aspectes ambientals Nova York (Nova York).
Sòl, Ús del Nova York (Nova York).
New York (State) New York
New York, NY

Host item:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Added entries:

Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221138
Call No.: HT243.U62 N5 2002
Status: Available