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Emerald City : An Environmental History of Seattle.

Av: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2008Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (381 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300150124
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 304.2 09797/772
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Innehåll:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Fish that Might Save Seattle -- 1. All the Forces of Nature Are on Their Side: The Unraveling of the Mixed World -- 2. The Work Which Nature Had Left Undone: Making Private Property on the Waterfront Commons -- 3. The Imagination and Creative Energy of the Engineer: Harnessing Nature's Forces to Urban Progress -- 4. Out of Harmony with the Wild Beauty of the Natural Woods: Artistry Versus Utility in Seattle's Olmsted Parks -- 5. Above the Weary Cares of Life: The Benefits and High Social Price of Outdoor Leisure -- 6. Junk-Yard for Human Junk: The Unnatural Ecology of Urban Poverty -- 7. Death for a Tired Old River: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Inequity in Postwar Seattle -- 8. Masses of Self-Centered People: Salmon and the Limits of Ecotopia in Emerald City -- Epilogue: The Geography of Hope: Toward an Ethic of Place and a City of Justice -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Fish that Might Save Seattle -- 1. All the Forces of Nature Are on Their Side: The Unraveling of the Mixed World -- 2. The Work Which Nature Had Left Undone: Making Private Property on the Waterfront Commons -- 3. The Imagination and Creative Energy of the Engineer: Harnessing Nature's Forces to Urban Progress -- 4. Out of Harmony with the Wild Beauty of the Natural Woods: Artistry Versus Utility in Seattle's Olmsted Parks -- 5. Above the Weary Cares of Life: The Benefits and High Social Price of Outdoor Leisure -- 6. Junk-Yard for Human Junk: The Unnatural Ecology of Urban Poverty -- 7. Death for a Tired Old River: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Inequity in Postwar Seattle -- 8. Masses of Self-Centered People: Salmon and the Limits of Ecotopia in Emerald City -- Epilogue: The Geography of Hope: Toward an Ethic of Place and a City of Justice -- Notes -- Index.

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