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

Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

Szerző: Dorceta E. Taylor

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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In "The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s", Dorceta E. Taylor provides an i...

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Szerző

Dorceta E. Taylor

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2009

oldal

640

EAN

9780822344360

ISBN

082234436X

Enbook ID

04938921

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

1066

Méretek

160 x 236 x 43

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In "The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s", Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States over four centuries. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and responses to perceived breakdowns in social order. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the way race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of colour for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of colour in early America, the cosy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

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