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|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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…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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…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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…governance in the face of an urban dilemma.| Eric M. Hardy| History of the Urban Environment| History / United States / 20th Century History / United States / State &…
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…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…