Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (Urban and Industrial Environments)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262572168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.. In this innovative account of the urbanization 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. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's enviro
Re-Thinking Nature in New York City M. Zavala Matthew Gandy's CONCRETE AND CLAY is a sweeping history of the different ways in which nature has been reworked in New York City. It includes an historical account of the ways in which the current water system was put in place. It also offers an in-depth discussion of the Olmstedian ideology of nature and space, a useful way for framing the ways in which construction and land use has function. JB said Great. This book was so so good. I love New York City and to learn so much about how the great city was developed was a good read.. College read It was an interesting book to read for an environmental class in college. It has a very interesting text as you read.
He has been a visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.. Matthew Gandy teaches geography and urban studies in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London
. The facts accumulate somewhat haphazardly: Aaron Burr's 1799 Manhattan Water company never delivered on its promise to bring clean water to the city, but did become a major banking concern; Olmstead's Anglophile vision of Central Park "was anathema to Irish political and intellectual opinion"; the post-WWII "spread of car ownership" spawned trips similar to the 19th-century railroad's "nature tourism," leading to landscaped parkways. Heightened New York interest continues outside the city; expect solid sales from campus and issue-oriented shops.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Gandy has pieced together a fascinating environmental history of New York along five specific axes: the creation of a workable system of water supply, the developing concept of public space, the establishment of landscaped highways, the profound changes that environmentalism had on the Latin