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"Concrete and Clay is a towering achievement and a wonderful addition to the literature on the urban environment." -- Ari Kelman, American Studies "... a fascinating overview of New York City's technological and social infrastructures." -- Journal of Architectural Education "Concrete and Clay is an important contribution to the still-nascent literature in urban environmental history." -- Greg Hise, Journal of Regional Science "Gandy has pieced together a fascinating environmental history of New York." -- Publishers Weekly "This is a masterful book: sweeping in its coverage of urban environmental issues, provocative in its critique of contemporary environmentalism, and economical in its execution. I can think of no other work that so effectively manages to sustain an analysis of the urban environment across such broad shifts in urban capitalism. By relentlessly bringing us back to the underlying patterns of capital accumulation and political power in cities, Gandy offers a powerful corrective to models of sustainability that invoke an organic ideal of urban nature." --Andrew Hurley, Department of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis "This is a wonderful book--rich in detail and broad in analytic scope. Gandy uncovers the hidden intersections of nature, culture, and power on which the building of cities relies. He offers a dramatic new synthesis of what we know about New York City and the natural environment of water, waste, air, and parkland, framed by the continual struggle for democracy." --Sharon Zukin, author of The Cultures of Cities "This remarkable book renders more visible the complex process of socio-environmental transformation that gives form and substance to the city. It is a great read--insightful and well-researched, yet accessible." --Erik Swyngedouw, St. Peter's College and School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
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"... a fascinating overview of New York City's technological and social infrastructures." Journal of Architectural Education "Gandy has pieced together a fascinating environmental history of New York." Publishers Weekly " Concrete and Clay is a towering achievement and a wonderful addition to the literature on the urban environment." Ari Kelman American Studies "This is a wonderful book--rich in detail and broad in analytic scope. Gandy uncovers the hidden intersections of nature, culture, and power on which the building of cities relies. He offers a dramatic new synthesis of what we know about New York City and the natural environment of water, waste, air, and parkland, framed by the continual struggle for democracy." Sharon Zukin , author of The Cultures of Cities "Gandy deftly and provocatively connects issue of health, politics, economics, and urbanology in a compulsively readable and illuminating cultural analysis." Publishers Weekly "Gandy does an excellent job of guiding the reader through the thicket of New York's societal relationships with nature. The study defies common conventions of urban historical narrative by allowing the reader to access New York's nature from a variety of perspectives: capital, technology, modernization, landscape, liberation politics, and environmental justice. Concrete and Clay is a major achievement in the field of urban ecology."--Roger Keil, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York UniversityPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote. "This is a masterful book: sweeping in its coverage of urban environmental issues, provocative in its critique of contemporary environmentalism, and economical in its execution. I can think of no other work that so effectively manages to sustain an analysis of the urban environment across such broad shifts in urban capitalism. By relentlessly bringing us back to the underlying patterns of capital accumulation and political power in cities, Gandy offers a powerful corrective to models of sustainability that invoke an organic ideal of urban nature."--Andrew Hurley, Department of History, University of Missouri, St. LouisPlease note: Endorser gives permission to excerpt from quote. "This is a wonderful book--rich in detail and broad in analytic scope. Gandy uncovers the hidden intersections of nature, culture, and power on which the building of cities relies. He offers a dramatic new synthesis of what we know about New York City and the natural environment of water, waste, air, and parkland, framed by the continual struggle for democracy."--Sharon Zukin, author of The Cultures of Cities
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Re-Thinking Nature in New York City
31 July 2008
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Matthew Gandy's CONCRETE AND CLAY is a sweeping history of the different ways in which nature has been reworked in New York City. It includes an historical account of the ways in which the current water system was put in place. It also offers an in-depth discussion of the Olmstedian ideology of nature and space, a useful way for framing the ways in which construction and land use has functioned in NYC over time. In addition to these important historical insights, the book also offers a glimpse into early forms of local organizing in what would later take the distinct shape of the environmental justice movement in the history of the Young Lords. But because the book is specifically about NYC, Gandy focuses his attention on the Lords' movement in the city, while only offering a nod to the successful organizing campaigns that took place in cities like Chicago. This history of Young Lords activism against environmental neglect is often left out of mainstream historical accounts. Gandy situates it center stage and thus honors the impact the initial sanitation movement had for not just the Puerto Rican population, but for the city at large. This book is a must read for anyone interested in a different type of history of New York City, one taken from a perspective that challenges more common ideas about urbanity transcending nature.
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