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Book SynopsisDuring Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape through
Trade Review"Drawing on the theoretical concepts of assemblages and socio-natures, David Gissen uses a number of important case studies to reflect transformations in New York City’s urban environment, focusing squarely on shifts in power during the city’s post-industrial context. By mixing architecture with geography, his keen eye makes a convincing, innovative argument about the importance of ‘maintenance.’" —Julie Sze, author of
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental JusticeTable of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Urban Nature to the Maintenance Environment1. Protection: Megastructures and Environmental Gentrification2. Growth: Corporate Atriums and the Cultivation of Urban Nature3. Preservation: Territories of Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art4. Exchange: The Communication Environments of Finance
Epilogue: Re-imagining Maintenance
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