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Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future / / Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein



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Autore: Eldredge Niles Visualizza persona
Titolo: Concrete jungle : New York City and our last best hope for a sustainable future / / Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 307.7609747
Soggetto topico: Urban ecology (Sociology) - New York (State) - New York
Urban geography - New York (State) - New York
Environmental degradation - New York (State) - New York
Biodiversity - New York (State) - New York
Soggetto non controllato: american cities
biodiversity
central park
cities and natural environment
city life
collect pond
concentrated humans
contradictions
crowded cities
early railways
ecosystems
environmental studies
environments
future of global biodiversity
geological history
glacial features
human existence
manhattan island
manhattan square
microcosm
nature
new york city
new york
political
politics
railroads
realistic
solving environmental problems
subway system
survival
urban areas
urban studies
urbanization
Persona (resp. second.): HorensteinSidney S.
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: The Yin and Yang of Cities -- 1. Regarding Broadway: The Urban Saga and the New York Microcosm -- 2. Forest Primeval -- 3. Landscape Transformed -- 4. Growth of the Concrete Jungle -- 5. Fouling, and Cleaning, the Nest -- 6. Invasion and Survival -- 7. Resilience, Restoration, and Redemption -- 8. Cities, Globalization, and the Future of Biodiversity -- Notes, References, and Suggestions for Further Reading -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity. They illuminate the mass of contradictions that cities present in embodying the best and the worst of human existence. The authors demonstrate that, though cities have voracious appetites for resources such as food and water, they also represent the last hope for conserving healthy remnants of the world's ecosystems and species. With their concentration of human beings, cities bring together centers of learning, research, government, finance, and media-institutions that increasingly play active roles in solving environmental problems. Some of the topics covered in Concrete Jungle: --The geological history of the New York region, including remnant glacial features visible today --The early days of urbanization on Manhattan Island, focusing on the history of Central Park, Collect Pond, and Manhattan Square --The history of early railway lines and the development of New York's iconic subway system --The problem of producing enough safe drinking water for an ever-expanding population --Prominent civic institutions, including universities, museums, and zoos
Titolo autorizzato: Concrete jungle  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95830-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786895103321
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