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Author Crawford, Susan P., 1963- author.

Title Charleston : race, water, and the coming storm / Susan Crawford ; foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
©2023.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  975.7915 CRAWFORD    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  975.7915 CRAWFORD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  975.7915 CRAWFORD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  975.7915 CRAWFORD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  975.7915 CR    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Description xi, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-359) and index.
Contents Foreword / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Charleston and its global cousins -- Charleston's natural environment -- Rev. Joseph P. Darby and the history of Charleston -- Charleston and water, 2016-2022 -- The Lower Peninsula and Jacob Lindsey -- The East Side and David White -- The Upper Peninsula and Michelle Mapp -- Upper Lockwood: Gadsden Green, WestEdge, MUSC, and the future -- Off the Peninsula, Quinetha Frasier & Charlton Singleton -- Muddling through and managed retreat.
Summary "At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. In these pages, Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now, as the waters rise, stands at the intersection of climate and race. Unbeknownst to the seven million mostly white tourists who visit the charming streets of the lower peninsula each year, the Holy City is in a deeply precarious position. Charleston chronicles the tumultuous recent past in the life of the city--from protests to hurricanes--while revealing the escalating risk in its future. Charleston, a bellwether for other coastal cities and towns around the globe, has done little to ensure a thriving future for all its residents despite the looming threat of environmental catastrophe."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject City planning -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century.
Urban renewal -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 21st century.
Gentrification -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations.
City planning -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
City planning -- Climatic factors -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
City planning -- Political aspects -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- History.
City planning. (OCoLC)fst00862177
City planning -- Climatic factors. (OCoLC)fst00862189
City planning -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862241
City planning -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862253
Gentrification. (OCoLC)fst00940296
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Urban renewal. (OCoLC)fst01162536
South Carolina -- Charleston. (OCoLC)fst01204603
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Gordon-Reed, Annette, author of foreword.
Added Title Race, water, and the coming storm
ISBN 1639363572 (ardcover)
9781639363575 (hardcover)
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