Concrete and clay : reworking nature in New York City /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gandy, Matthew (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2002.
• Σειρά: Urban and industrial environments.
• Θέματα: 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.; Human ecology.; Land use, Urban.; Urban ecology (Sociology); New York (State) > New York.; Electronic books.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.