Dorceta E Taylor

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging study of urban environmental history draws our attention to environmental challenges faced by American cities over the past four centuries, showing how understandings of race, class, and gender shape discourse on the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344360
• ISBN-10: 082234436X
• Artikelnr.: 26551255

Autorenporträt

Dorceta E. Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, Tables, and Boxes ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. The Condition of the City 41
1. The Evolution of the City 43
2. Epidemics, Cities, and Environmental Reform 69
Part II. Reforming the City 113
3. Wealthy Urbanites: Fleeing Downtown and Privatizing Green Space 115
4. Social Inequality and the Quest for Order in the City 131
5. Data Gathering as a Mechanism for Understanding the City and Imposing
Order 181
6. Sanitation and Housing Reform 199
Part III. Urban Park, Order, and Social Reform 221
7. Conceptualizing and Framing Urban Parks 223
8. Elite Ideology, Activism, and Park Development 251
9. Social Class, Activism, and Park Use 296
10. Contemporary Efforts to Finance Urban Parks 338
Part IV. The Rise of Comprehensive Zoning 365
11. Class, Race, Space, and Zoning in America 367
12. Land Use and Zoning in American Cities 380
Part V. Reforming the Workplace and Reducing Community Hazards 405
13. Workplace and Community Hazards 407
14. The Industrial Workplace 446
Conclusion 501
Notes 507
Index 603