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Concrete and clay : reworking nature in New York City
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ISBN: 9780262572163 0262572168 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.


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Too big : rebuild by design : a transformative approach to climate change
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ISBN: 9789462083158 9462083150 9789462083318 Year: 2018 Publisher: Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers,

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Rebuild by Design (RBD) was developed for the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force after Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast Coast of the United States in October-November, 2012. Using an innovative, design driven process based on the design competition model, 'Rebuild by Design' places local communities and civic leaders at the heart of a robust, interdisciplinary creative process to generate implementable solutions for a more resilient region. This book aims not so much to illustrate what 'Rebuild by Design' did, but to reflect on it, assess it in all its aspects and embed it in a broader context to offer a guide for to politicians, designers, change managers, community leaders, researchers, activists and others, offering future approaches wherever climate-change induced, water-related urban challenges arise.

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Hurricane Sandy, 2012 --- Hurricane damage --- Natural disasters --- Emergency management --- Architecture and climate --- City planning --- Architecture --- Climate and architecture --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Disaster relief --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Natural calamities --- Damage, Hurricane --- Sandy, Hurricane, 2012 --- Superstorm Sandy, 2012 --- Environmental aspects --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate --- Management --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention --- 711.16 --- 551.58 --- 556 --- Water --- 711.4 --- 504 --- 721.7 --- Heropbouw --- Klimaat --- Hydrologie --- Stedenbouw --- Milieukunde --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Duurzaamheid --- Duurzame architectuur --- Tijdelijke architectuur --- Vluchtelingenkampen --- 72(210.5) --- 72:574 --- 711.4(A) --- 728.18 --- Architectuur architectuur en water aan het water --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening denken over de stedenbouw --- Woningbouw noodwoningen, hutten --- Architectuur ; architectuur en water ; aan het water --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; denken over de stedenbouw --- Woningbouw ; noodwoningen, hutten --- Environmental planning --- Meteorology. Climatology --- climate change --- urban planning --- United States --- Hurricane Sandy, 2012. --- Architecture and climate. --- Emergency management. --- Hurricane damage. --- Natural disasters. --- Environmental aspects. --- New Jersey. --- New York (State) --- United States. --- Meteorologie. Klimatologie --- Ruimtelijke ordening --- stadsplanning --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Climatology --- Public safety --- First responders --- Hurricanes --- Constructions --- Protection contre les cyclones --- Architecture domestique --- Climat --- Effets des catastrophes naturelles --- Reconstruction --- Changements --- Sustainable architecture --- Klimaatveranderingen. --- Duurzaam bouwen. --- 711.4(73) --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; stedelijke ontwikkeling ; Verenigde Staten --- City planning - Environmental aspects - New York (State) --- City planning - Environmental aspects - New Jersey --- Hurricane damage - New York (State) --- Hurricane damage - New Jersey --- Natural disasters - New York (State) --- Natural disasters - New Jersey --- Emergency management - United States --- Sustainable architecture - New York (State) --- Sustainable architecture - New Jersey --- United States of America

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