Coastal Metropolis
eBook - ePub

Coastal Metropolis

Environmental Histories of Modern New York City

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eBook - ePub

Coastal Metropolis

Environmental Histories of Modern New York City

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Water, Infrastructure, and Wastescapes
  8. 1. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Region, 1700–1980, with an Addendum to 2018
  9. 2. A Hinge in History: Environmental Transformation of New York’s Jamaica Bay
  10. 3. The Health of the Harbor
  11. 4. The Rockaway Commute, 1950–2017: A Long, Strange Trip
  12. 5. Storm King Mountain and the Modernization of American Environmentalism
  13. 6. Restoring the Bronx River: Local Reclamation and Festive Rebranding in Postindustrial New York City
  14. 7. Disposing Waste in an Island City
  15. 8. Marketing a Nuisance: Sanitary Landfilling as Economic Development at the 1939 World’s Fair
  16. 9. Gone and Unlamented: Citizen Activism, Ocean Dumping, and Incineration in New York City, 1876–1998
  17. 10. Learning How to Dredge in the Age of Ecology: The Mud Dump Site and the New York Bigh
  18. 11. Composting and Garbage in New York City: A Twentieth-Century History
  19. 12. Reading Newtown Creek: Competing Narratives of New York City’s Aquatic Discardscape
  20. 13. Tough Guys on the Waterfront: Neoliberalism and the Rise of Resilient New York
  21. Conclusion: On the Rising Tide
  22. Notes
  23. Contributors
  24. Index