{"product_id":"the-environment-and-the-people-in-american-cities-1600s1900s-9780822344360","title":"The Environment and the People in American Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States over four centuries. This title 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor has gleaned profound insights from the social sciences and humanities to weave them into this superbly written tour de force on environmental and social justice in the urban US. . . . In short, this is the best account of urban ecology that has come out in the past two decades. . . . [T]his magnum opus has the makings of a classic that is destined to be one of the most referenced volumes of our times. Essential.” - T. Niazi, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . [A] major contribution to the history of American environmentalism and American social history in general. . . . [Taylor’s] insights require serious engagement by every student of American environmentalism.” - Kimberly K. Smith, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Environmental Studies and Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dorceta Taylor’s impressive work not only more than fulfils an expectation to learn about how American cities and urban environmentalism emerged, but it contextualises these developments through some important and often neglected lenses. . . . Taylor’s work is a valuable companion to studying the sociology of urban environmentalism, today and in the past.” - Stewart Barr, \u003ci\u003eUrban Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor has written an important overview of what cities have faced from an\u003cbr\u003eenvironmental perspective, and readers from many different disciplines will find much to ponder.” - Lisa Keller, \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Environment and the People in American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those great and versatile books that any environmental social scientist would want to have sitting on her shelf. I have read many books on related topics over the years and I can’t recall any other that does anything like this one. By focusing on racial, ethnic, and class issues as they play out in the urban landscape, against such backdrops as public health concerns, parks, and industrial workplaces, Dorceta E. Taylor makes a major contribution. I’ll never view my urban surroundings in quite the same way again.”—\u003cb\u003eValerie Gunter\u003c\/b\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eVolatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“All future research on environmentalism and social change will have to reference \u003ci\u003eThe Environment and the People in American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a pathbreaking, first-rate work of scholarship. As the first scholar to consider the relationship between social inequality and conservation issues within such an inclusive framework, Dorceta E. Taylor makes stunning links between the terrain of contemporary environmental and social-justice conflicts and those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Pellow\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGarbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dorceta E. Taylor has set out to write nothing short of a ‘People’s Environmental History of American Cities.’ At the core of her social history are inequalities based on race, gender, class, and ethnicity, as wealthy white elites shaped access to housing, workplaces, parks and even cemeteries to their wishes, at the expense of everyone else. Taylor’s book is a call for broader perspectives on environmental issues, to include segregation, labor market and workplace dynamics, social movements, politics, and social control. A magnum opus chock full of fascinating details of an untold history of the environmental injustices at the root of our society.”—\u003cb\u003eTimmons Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e“[A] major contribution to the history of American environmentalism and American social history in general. . . . [Taylor’s] insights require serious engagement by every student of American environmentalism.” -- Kimberly K. Smith * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e“Dorceta Taylor’s impressive work not only more than fulfils an expectation to learn about how American cities and urban environmentalism emerged, but it contextualises these developments through some important and often neglected lenses. . . . Taylor’s work is a valuable companion to studying the sociology of urban environmentalism, today and in the past.” -- Stewart Barr * Urban Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor has gleaned profound insights from the social sciences and humanities to weave them into this superbly written tour de force on environmental and social justice in the urban US. . . . In short, this is the best account of urban ecology that has come out in the past two decades. . . . [T]his magnum opus has the makings of a classic that is destined to be one of the most referenced volumes of our times. Essential.” -- T. Niazi * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Taylor has written an important overview of what cities have faced from an environmental perspective, and readers from many different disciplines will find much to ponder.” -- Lisa Keller * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures, Tables, and Boxes ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Condition of the City 41\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Evolution of the City 43\u003cbr\u003e 2. Epidemics, Cities, and Environmental Reform 69\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Reforming the City 113\u003cbr\u003e 3. Wealthy Urbanites: Fleeing Downtown and Privatizing Green Space 115\u003cbr\u003e 4. Social Inequality and the Quest for Order in the City 131\u003cbr\u003e 5. Data Gathering as a Mechanism for Understanding the City and Imposing Order 181\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sanitation and Housing Reform 199\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Urban Park, Order, and Social Reform 221\u003cbr\u003e 7. Conceptualizing and Framing Urban Parks 223\u003cbr\u003e 8. Elite Ideology, Activism, and Park Development 251\u003cbr\u003e 9. Social Class, Activism, and Park Use 296\u003cbr\u003e 10. Contemporary Efforts to Finance Urban Parks 338\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Rise of Comprehensive Zoning 365\u003cbr\u003e 11. Class, Race, Space, and Zoning in America 367\u003cbr\u003e 12. Land Use and Zoning in American Cities 380\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Reforming the Workplace and Reducing Community Hazards 405\u003cbr\u003e 13. Workplace and Community Hazards 407\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Industrial Workplace 446\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 501\u003cbr\u003e Notes 507\u003cbr\u003e Index 603","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456015532375,"sku":"9780822344360","price":134.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344360.jpg?v=1755033450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-environment-and-the-people-in-american-cities-1600s1900s-9780822344360","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}