Joseph Fluid New York

Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7888-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, May

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Prologue 1

Introduction 7

Part I. Fluid Urbanism 19

1. Water Ecology, Island City 23

2. Transoceanic New York, City of Rivers 35

3. The Maritime Sky of Manhattan 55

4. Thinking Metropolitanism 70

Part II. Cosmopolitan Frugality 93

5. Nomadic Urbanism and Frugality 95

6. Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi: Cultures of Frugality 110

Part III. Ecological Expressivity 131

7. Greening Hardscape 133

8. Marathon City, Biking Boroughs 151

Part IV. Maritime Mentalities 167

9. Brooklyn Carnival and the Sale of Dreamland 169

10. Spirits of Necropolis, Planes on the Hudson 179

11. Governors Island: Maritime Pasts, Ecological Futures 189

12. After Hurricane Sandy 204

Conclusion: Toward a Praxis of Cosmopolitan Citizenship 211

Notes 213

Bibliography 231

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

May Joseph is Professor of Social Science at the Pratt Institute, where she teaches urbanism, global studies, and visual culture. She is the founder of Harmattan Theater, which produces site-specific outdoor productions exploring the history of New York City through its architecture, design, and natural environment. Joseph is the author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship and a coeditor (with Jennifer Natalya Fink) of Performing Hybridity.