Nature's entrepôt
Subtitle: Philadelphia's urban sphere and its environmental thresholds
By: edited by Brian C. Black and Michael J. Chiarappa
Series: History of the urban environment
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780822944171
Subjects: Economic conditions; Urban ecology (Sociology); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Brian C. Black; title: Ideal and reality in the early city; title: William Penn's Philadelphia : the land and the plan / Craig Zabel; title: "Pro bono publico" : ecology, history, and the creation of Philadelphia's fairmount park system / Elizabeth Milroy; title: The rise and fall of yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793-1805 / Thomas Apel; title: Locating patterns of industry and commerce in the expanding city; title: Bone boilers : nineteenth-century green businessmen? / Donna J. Rilling; title: "Publick service" versus "mans properties" : dock creek and the origin of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon; title: Industrial suburbs : environmental liabilities or assets? / Carolyn T. Adams; title: Landscape transformation in the growing city; title: The grid versus nature : the history and legacy of topographical change in Philadelphia / Adam Levine; title: Fed by the adjoining waters : the Delaware estuary's marine resources and the shaping of Philadelphia's metropolitan orbit / Michael J. Chiarappa; title: Metropolitan Philadelphia : sprawl, shrinkage, and sustainability / Robert J. Mason; title: Confronting the ecologies of the modern city; title: Restoring Mill creek : landscape, literacy, environmental history, and city planning and design / Anne Whiston Spirn; title: Saving ourselves by acting locally : the historical progression of grassroots environmental justice activism in the Philadelphia area, 1981-2001 / Diane Sicotte; title: Planning the food secure city : Philadelphia's agriculture, retrospect and prospect / Domenic Vitiello; title: Wolves in the Wissahickon : deer, humans, and the problem of ecology in an urban park / Ann N. Greene; title: Contributors; title: Notes; title: Index.