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Gotham unbound: the ecological history of Greater New York

14 Jul 2016-Planning Perspectives (Routledge)-Vol. 31, Iss: 4, pp 668-670
TL;DR: The environmental virtue of high density has been extol in the literature in urban studies as discussed by the authors, which tends to extol the environmental virtues of high densities, and use New York as the example par excellence to support high density.
Abstract: Recent literature in urban studies tends to extol the environmental virtue of high density. New Yorker staff writer David Owen, for instance, uses New York as the example par excellence to support ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors published a paper in Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 124 (2019): 196-211, doi:10.1029/2018JC014313.
Abstract: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 124 (2019): 196-211, doi:10.1029/2018JC014313.

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  • ...Dutch settlers filled in marsh along lower Manhattan to create landings for commercial vessels, and this narrowing of the East River caused the adjacent Buttermilk Channel in Upper New York Bay to deepen from a few meters in the early 1700s to more than 12 m in 1807 (Steinberg, 2014)....

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  • ...Shortly thereafter, the Ambrose Channel was authorized (1899) and completed as a 40-ft (12-m) channel by 1914 (Steinberg, 2014)....

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TL;DR: The sociology of loss as discussed by the authors is a project for sociological engagement with climate change, one that breaks out of environmental sociology as the conventional silo of research and bridges to other subfields.
Abstract: Climate change involves human societies in problems of loss: depletion, disappearance, and collapse. The climate changes and changes other things, in specifically destructive ways. What can and should sociology endeavour to know about this particular form of social change? This article outlines the sociology of loss as a project for sociological engagement with climate change, one that breaks out of environmental sociology as the conventional silo of research and bridges to other subfields. I address four interrelated dimensions of loss that climate change presents: the materiality of loss; the politics of loss; knowledge of loss; and practices of loss. Unlike “sustainability”—the more dominant framing in the social sciences of climate change—the sociology of loss examines what does, will, or must disappear rather than what can or should be sustained. Though the sociology of loss requires a confrontation with the melancholia of suffering people and places, it also speaks to new solidarities and positive transformations.

50 citations

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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a Dedication Dedication, which can be found in Section 5.2.1.1] and Section 6.3.2].
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04 Apr 2018
TL;DR: The authors take an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear "natural" and "stable" in urban areas.
Abstract: This article takes an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear “natural” and stable wh...

21 citations


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  • ...As in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and most other port cities around the world, much of Chicago’s waterfront is ‘‘made’’ or ‘‘reclaimed’’ land (Kearney and Merrill, 2004, 2013; Rawson, 2009; Steinberg, 2014)....

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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: The transition of a site with a hidden history on the Rutgers University's Livingston Campus by following the historical development of its natural and cultural landscapes with the objective of identifying opportunities to express these narratives is described in this paper.
Abstract: OF THE THESIS: PALIMPSEST: THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF CAMP KILMER ON LIVINGSTON CAMPUS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY – NEW BRUNSWICK by KIMBERLY ANN TRYBA Thesis Director: Kathleen John-Alder For more than two hundred years, land management in the United States has often embraced taking a tabula rasa approach, through which the landscape has been successively cleared and manipulated to prepare it for reuse. Alternately adding and erasing layers has modified the landscape, often irreparably. While efficient and costeffective, this tactic dismisses the concept of the landscape as an historical product consisting of layers of events and actions. Furthermore, a tabula rasa approach does not recognize and celebrate this historical legacy, nor does it offer an opportunity to either engage the members of the Rutgers community and the larger community beyond the boundaries of the campus with the importance of this history, or to integrate the academic mission of Rutgers University as a future plans for the site are developed. Through this thesis, I chronicle the transition of a site with a hidden history on the Rutgers University’s Livingston Campus by following the historical development of its natural and cultural landscapes with the objective of identifying opportunities to express these narratives. Inspired by the concept of “palimpsest” in both its literal definition as physical evidence of historic reuse, and the academic premise outlined by André Corboz

15 citations

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29 Aug 2009
Abstract: In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan- the most densely populated place in North America -rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn't matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn't reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world's nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

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TL;DR: In "Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland" as discussed by the authors, David Stradling and Richard Stadling recount the tumultuous administration of Cleveland Mayor Carl Stoke as he grappled with the city's economic crisis.
Abstract: In Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland, David Stradling and Richard Stradling recount the tumultuous administration of Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as he grappled ...

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