Concrete and Clay
Subtitle: Reworking Nature in New York City (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780262072243
Subjects: Architecture; Human Ecology; Urban renewal & regeneration; Urban Planning; Political Science; New York; Human Geography; Landscape; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Architecture / Planning; Ecology; Public Policy - Regional Planning; City planning; Environmental aspects; New York (State); Urban ecology
Description: "In this account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers.

The book traces five broad developments: the creation of a modern water supply system, the expansion and redefinition of public space in Central Park, the construction of landscaped highways, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement."--BOOK JACKET.