Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination

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Fluid New York : cosmopolitan urbanism and the green imagination

May Joseph

Duke University Press, 2013

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Bibliography: p. [231]-238

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Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands. Yet the storm also revealed the resilience of a metropolis that has started during the past decade to reckon with its aqueous topography. In Fluid New York, May Joseph describes the many ways that New York, and New Yorkers, have begun to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future. For instance, by cleaning its tidal marshes, the municipality has turned a previously dilapidated waterfront into a space for public leisure and rejuvenation. Joseph considers New York's relation to the water that surrounds and defines it. Her reflections reach back to the city's heyday as a world-class port-a past embodied in a Dutch East India Company cannon recently unearthed from the rubble at the World Trade Center site-and they encompass the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They suggest that New York's future lies in the reclamation of its great water resources-for artistic creativity, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability.

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Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Prologue 1 Introduction 7 Part I. Fluid Urbanism 19 1. Water Ecology, Island City 23 2. Transoceanic New York, City of Rivers 35 3. The Maritime Sky of Manhattan 55 4. Thinking Metropolitanism 70 Part II. Cosmopolitan Frugality 93 5. Nomadic Urbanism and Frugality 95 6. Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi: Cultures of Frugality 110 Part III. Ecological Expressivity 131 7. Greening Hardscape 133 8. Marathon City, Biking Boroughs 151 Part IV. Maritime Mentalities 167 9. Brooklyn Carnival and the Sale of Dreamland 169 10. Spirits of Necropolis, Planes on the Hudson 179 11. Governors Island: Maritime Pasts, Ecological Futures 189 12. After Hurricane Sandy 204 Conclusion: Toward a Praxis of Cosmopolitan Citizenship 211 Notes 213 Bibliography 231 Index 239

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