Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination /
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| Author / Creator: | Joseph, May. |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, [2013] |
| Description: | xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9338695 |
| Summary: | Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands. Yet the storm also revealed the resilience of a metropolis that has started during the past decade to reckon with its aqueous topography. In Fluid New York , May Joseph describes the many ways that New York, and New Yorkers, have begun to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future. For instance, by cleaning its tidal marshes, the municipality has turned a previously dilapidated waterfront into a space for public leisure and rejuvenation. <p>Joseph considers New York's relation to the water that surrounds and defines it. Her reflections reach back to the city's heyday as a world-class port--a past embodied in a Dutch East India Company cannon recently unearthed from the rubble at the World Trade Center site--and they encompass the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They suggest that New York's future lies in the reclamation of its great water resources--for artistic creativity, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822354604 0822354608 9780822354727 0822354721 |
