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Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination / May Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joseph, May.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmopolitanism--New York (State)--New York.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--New York (State)--New York.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- New York (N.Y.)--Civilization--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Civilization--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354727
- 0822354721
- 9780822378884
- 0822378884
- OCLC:
- 1140821665
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