Concrete and Clay Reworking Nature in New York City

Name: Concrete and Clay Reworking Nature in New York City
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ISBN: 9780262572163

ISBN-10: 0262572168

ISBN-13: 9780262572163

Edition: 2003

Authors: Matthew Gandy, Robert Gottlieb

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In this account of the urbanisation 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.

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.06" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Notes


Index