Melosi Fresh Kills

A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54835-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melosi, Martin V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dilemma of Consuming
Part I: The Backdrop
1. Island City
2. Wasting Away
Part II: Staten Island: Borough of Last Resort
3. The Quarantine
4. The Garbage War
Part III: Seeking a Disposal Sink
5. The Go-Away Society
6. One Best Way
7. Futile Protests
Part IV: Living with and Surviving the Landfill
8. The Burning Question
9. The End of Isolation
10. An Environmental Turn
11. Fiscal Crisis and Disposal Dilemma
12. Fresh Kills at Midlife
13. Barge to Nowhere
14. A New Plan
Part V: The Road to Closure
15. Secession
16. Closure
17. Now What?
Part VI: The Post-Closure Era
18. 9/11
19. Regeneration
20. Crossroads
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin V. Melosi is Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. His many books include The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (2000) and Atomic Age America (2013).