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Nature's entrepôt : Philadelphia's urban sphere and its environmental thresholds / edited by Brian C. Black and Michael J. Chiarappa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of the urban environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 367 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Brian C. Black
- Ideal and reality in the early city
- William Penn's Philadelphia : the land and the plan / Craig Zabel
- "Pro bono publico" : ecology, history, and the creation of Philadelphia's fairmount park system / Elizabeth Milroy
- The rise and fall of yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793-1805 / Thomas Apel
- Locating patterns of industry and commerce in the expanding city
- Bone boilers : nineteenth-century green businessmen? / Donna J. Rilling
- "Publick service" versus "mans properties" : dock creek and the origin of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon
- Industrial suburbs : environmental liabilities or assets? / Carolyn T. Adams
- Landscape transformation in the growing city
- The grid versus nature : the history and legacy of topographical change in Philadelphia / Adam Levine
- Fed by the adjoining waters : the Delaware estuary's marine resources and the shaping of Philadelphia's metropolitan orbit / Michael J. Chiarappa
- Metropolitan Philadelphia : sprawl, shrinkage, and sustainability / Robert J. Mason
- Confronting the ecologies of the modern city
- Restoring Mill creek : landscape, literacy, environmental history, and city planning and design / Anne Whiston Spirn
- Saving ourselves by acting locally : the historical progression of grassroots environmental justice activism in the Philadelphia area, 1981-2001 / Diane Sicotte
- Planning the food secure city : Philadelphia's agriculture, retrospect and prospect / Domenic Vitiello
- Wolves in the Wissahickon : deer, humans, and the problem of ecology in an urban park / Ann N. Greene
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-358) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822991762 (electronic bk.)
- 0822991764 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90100552691
- 40021618531
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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