Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination / May Joseph.

By:

Joseph, May

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013Description: xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780822354727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822354604 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

974.71044 JOS 23 020025

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.

List(s) this item appears in: Urban Ecology (Exhibition)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	974.71044 JOS 020025 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		020025

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.

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