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Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph, May (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.) > Civilization > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Civilization > 21st century.
Cosmopolitanism > New York (State) > New York.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > New York (State) > New York.
1900 - 2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Water ecology, island city
  • Transoceanic New York, city of rivers
  • The maritime sky of Manhattan
  • Thinking metropolitanism
  • Nomadic urbanism and frugality
  • Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi : cultures of frugality
  • Greening hardscape
  • Marathon city, biking boroughs
  • Brooklyn carnival and the sale of dreamland
  • Spirits of the necropolis, planes on the Hudson
  • Governors Island : maritime pasts, ecological futures
  • After Hurricane Sandy
  • Conclusion: toward a praxis of cosmopolitan citizenship.