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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dorceta E. TaylorPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.930kg ISBN: 9780822344513ISBN 10: 0822344513 Pages: 640 Publication Date: 23 November 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsFigures, 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 603ReviewsTaylor 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 ... [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 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 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 The Environment and the People in American Cities 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. -Valerie Gunter, coauthor of Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies All future research on environmentalism and social change will have to reference The Environment and the People in American Cities. 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. -David Pellow, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago 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. -Timmons Roberts, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University [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 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 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 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 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. --J. Timmons Roberts, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University All future research on environmentalism and social change will have to reference The Environment and the People in American Cities. 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. --David Naguib Pellow, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago The Environment and the People in American Cities 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. --Valerie Gunter, co-author of Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies 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. --J. Timmons Roberts, Director of the Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University All future research on environmentalism and social change will have to reference The Environment and the People in American Cities. 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. --David Naguib Pellow, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago The Environment and the People in American Cities 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. --Valerie Gunter, co-author of Volatile Places: A Sociology of Communities and Environmental Controversies Author InformationDorceta 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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