Title Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination / May Joseph

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Water ecology, island city -- Transoceanic New York, city of rivers -- The maritime sky of Manhattan -- Thinking metropolitanism -- Nomadic urbanism and frugality -- Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi : cultures of frugality -- Greening hardscape -- Marathon city, biking boroughs -- Brooklyn carnival and the sale of dreamland -- Spirits of the necropolis, planes on the Hudson -- Governors Island : maritime pasts, ecological futures -- After Hurricane Sandy -- Conclusion: toward a praxis of cosmopolitan citizenship Summary Fluid New York offers reflections on how New York began to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future in the decade between September 11 and Hurricane Sandy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cosmopolitanism -- New York (State) -- New York Urban ecology (Sociology) -- New York (State) -- New York HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Civilization Cosmopolitanism Urban ecology (Sociology) SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 20th century New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 21st century Subject New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822378884 0822378884

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