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Coastal Metropolis
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
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Coastal Metropolis
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
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In Our Own Backyards: Inquiry-based Learning and Institutional Collaboration at Two New England Colleges
From our own recent collaborative successes (1997-2003) in having students analyze urban development/revitalization projects first-hand, we report on a series of strategies with which students can achieve the following: * conduct research in a professional mode, as though they were members of an applied public policy research project or professional consulting team; * make connections between theories, policies, and social outcomes, connections that are too often obscured by traditional classroom-bound pedagogy, textbooks, and the boundaries between disciplines; * find that local built environments are convenient laboratories in which to test learned and intuited ideas about how and why cities develop in certain ways; * acquire critical thinking skills by analyzing real urban problems and outlining workable real-world solutions; * learn sustainable skills as members of focused teams who must cooperate on every stage of the research process, from defining problems to developing policy recommendations; and * plan a conference with their peers from a sister institution to share results and to debate workable solutions to the problems they have defined and studied. [...] the approach we have described allows these students to accomplish the following: * perform applied research similar to Professionals such as community planners, environmental analysts, and even academic researchers in fields as diverse as geography, political science, public administration, and urban history; * make connections about community decision-making that cannot truly be revealed by inference from classroom-based activities or course readings; * use the cities where they live in new and exciting ways by seeing these places as the outcomes of continuing, dynamic processes that can be studied and understood; * develop critical thinking skills by analyzing, critiquing, and suggesting innovations to prevailing policies in areas that affect their everyday lives; and * acquire valuable, lasting skills in group dynamics, conducting research, writing reports, and giving oral presentations - skills that promote enhanced career and graduate school aspirations.
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Public Health and Environmentalism
There exists in the United States a popular account of the historical roots of environmental philosophy which is worth noting not simply as a matter of historical interest, but also as a source book for some of the key ideas that lend shape to contemporary North American environmental philosophy. However, this folk wisdom about the historical beginnings of North American environmental thinking is incomplete. The wilderness-based history commonly used by environmental philosophers should be supplemented with the neglected story of garbage and sanitation in North American urban areas during the nineteenth century. This supplemented history changes the conceptual territory over which North American environmental philosophy roams. This new territory is better suited to a number of important local and international environmental challenges.
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GONE AND UNLAMENTED
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, New York City relied upon three primary processes to eliminate common residential refuse, technically referred to as municipal solid waste (MSW): disposal at sea in the form of ocean dumping, disposal in the air through incineration, and disposal on land in a variety of open dumps and landfills. By the turn of the twenty-first century, though, all three practices ceased to operate within city limits. This transformation is remarkable, since New York City depended heavily on each, at one point or another, in conjunction with a more sporadically employed fourth method: waste reclamation in
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Air and Water Pollution in the Urban-Industrial Nexus
In stark contrast to the present, smoky skies and dirty water dominated much of Chicago’s physical environment from the 1840s to 1970s. This essay provides a framework for how and why visible air and water contamination went from being a ubiquitous part of Chicago life to a barely noticed occurrence today. Central to this transition is seeing Chicago as a nexus point where two processes, industrialization and urbanization, converge to generate an ever-changing landscape. In order to historicize the human manipulation of air and water, the geography of industrial pollution and social inequality, transformations in the city’s overall economic base,
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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Corey reviews Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur.
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INTRODUCTION
New Year’s Day 1898 birthed Greater New York. The cities of New York and Brooklyn, respectively the first-and fourth-most-populated cities in the United States, joined with what are today the boroughs of the Bronx, Staten Island, and Queens to form a supercity, more than twice as populated as Chicago and second only in the world to London, with 3,437,202 enumerated in the 1900 census. The city’s coastline expanded from the 32 miles of Manhattan Island to 520 miles including Long Island and Staten Island’s shorelines of ocean, as well as rivers, bays, and inlets. The geographic borders and world status
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CONCLUSION
The consolidation of Greater New York City in 1898 produced a world city. Roughly two decades later it became the largest city on the planet and would remain so for much of the next half century until being overtaken by Tokyo and then Mexico City. Supporting New York City’s substantial population placed burdens on its estuary setting. As density within the New York’s five boroughs swelled, so too did the need for better transportation, water delivery, sewage treatment, energy, and solid waste management. As the chapters in this volume illustrate, New Yorkers developed infrastructure for these metabolic flows through the
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