Taylor The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9224-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 639 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

This wide-ranging study of urban environmental history draws our attention to environmental challenges faced by American cities over the past four centuries, showing how understandings of race, class, and gender shape discourse on the environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Dorceta E.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Tables, and Boxes ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I. The Condition of the City 41

1. The Evolution of the City 43

2. Epidemics, Cities, and Environmental Reform 69

Part II. Reforming the City 113

3. Wealthy Urbanites: Fleeing Downtown and Privatizing Green Space 115

4. Social Inequality and the Quest for Order in the City 131

5. Data Gathering as a Mechanism for Understanding the City and Imposing Order 181

6. Sanitation and Housing Reform 199

Part III. Urban Park, Order, and Social Reform 221

7. Conceptualizing and Framing Urban Parks 223

8. Elite Ideology, Activism, and Park Development 251

9. Social Class, Activism, and Park Use 296

10. Contemporary Efforts to Finance Urban Parks 338

Part IV. The Rise of Comprehensive Zoning 365

11. Class, Race, Space, and Zoning in America 367

12. Land Use and Zoning in American Cities 380

Part V. Reforming the Workplace and Reducing Community Hazards 405

13. Workplace and Community Hazards 407

14. The Industrial Workplace 446

Conclusion 501

Notes 507

Index 603

Über Autor(innen)

Dorceta E. Taylor is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism and Identity in Ethnic Leisure Pursuits.