Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Water, Infrastructure, and Wastescapes-Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey
1. Land Use and Environmental Change in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Region, 1700–1980, with an Addendum to 2018-Joel A. Tarr
2. A Hinge in History/Environmental Transformation of New York’s Jamaica Bay-William Solecki, John Waldman, and M. Joy Cytryn
3. The Health of the Harbor-Kara Murphy Schlichting
4. The Rockaway Commute, 1950–2017/A Long, Strange Trip-David Soll
5. Storm King Mountain and the Modernization of American Environmentalism-Robert D. Lifset
6. Restoring the Bronx River/Local Reclamation and Festive Rebranding in Postindustrial New York City-Adam Charboneau
7. Disposing Waste in an Island City-Martin V. Melosi
8. Marketing a Nuisance/Sanitary Landfilling as Economic Development at the 1939 World’s Fair-Tina Peabody
9. Gone and Unlamented/Citizen Activism, Ocean Dumping, and Incineration in New York City, 1876–1998-Steven H. Corey
10. Learning How to Dredge in the Age of Ecology/The Mud Dump Site and the New York Bigh-David Stradling
11. Composting and Garbage in New York City/A Twentieth-Century History-Samantha MacBride
12. Reading Newtown Creek/Competing Narratives of New York City’s Aquatic Discardscape-Carl A. Zimring
13. Tough Guys on the Waterfront/Neoliberalism and the Rise of Resilient New York-Ted Steinberg
Conclusion: On the Rising Tide-Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey
Notes
Contributors
Index