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Author Gandy, Matthew.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
City planning -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862209
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Land use, Urban. (OCoLC)fst00991631
Urban ecology (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst01733718
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Other Form: Print version: Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and clay. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262072246 (DLC) 2001054604 (OCoLC)48256398
ISBN 9780262273442 (electronic bk.)
0262273446 (electronic bk.)
0585437238 (electronic bk.)
9780585437231 (electronic bk.)
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