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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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