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Power on the Hudson

…Mountain on the Hudson River, forty miles north of New York City. Over the next eighteen years, their struggle against environmentalists would culminate in the abandonment of the project. Robert…

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In the Volcano’s Mouth

…writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg’s experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos,…

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Washed with Sun

|9780822959588|Landscape and the Making of White South Africa| South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in…

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Before Renaissance

…such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded tradition of…

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The Lung Block

…East Side provided an urban environment where infectious disease and other public health concerns flourished. One city block in particular, known in muckraking circles as “The Lung Block,” housed four…

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