Fluid New York
Subtitle: cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination
By: May Joseph
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780822354604; 9780822354727
Subjects: Civilization; Cosmopolitanism; Urban ecology (Sociology)
Description: "Each chapter describes an immigrant's journey nto a slice of metropolitan life centered around historic downtown Manhattan," to discuss the necessities and future of "vertical living" or living in high-densities of population.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Water ecology, island city; title: Transoceanic New York, city of rivers; title: The maritime sky of Manhattan; title: Thinking metropolitanism; title: Nomadic urbanism and frugality; title: Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi : cultures of frugality; title: Greening hardscape; title: Marathon city, biking boroughs; title: Brooklyn carnival and the sale of dreamland; title: Spirits of the necropolis, planes on the Hudson; title: Governors Island : maritime pasts, ecological futures; title: After Hurricane Sandy; title: Conclusion: toward a praxis of cosmopolitan citizenship.