|9780822968207|Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945–2005|Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a hard place to manage water—and to keep its waste out of sight. Atlanta’s Water Wars follows the development of the city’s water and sewer system from the postwar push for Buford Dam and metropolitan expansion to the Clean Water Act, civil rights battles inside City Hall, neighborhood environmental justice campaigns, and lawsuits. It opens with the spectacular 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse and uses that catastrophe to uncover decades of deferred maintenance, racial inequality, and fragmented governance beneath a booming Sunbelt metropolis. Tracing the rise…

|9780822947431|Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945–2005|Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a hard place to manage water—and to keep its waste out of sight. Atlanta’s Water Wars follows the development of the city’s water and sewer system from the postwar push for Buford Dam and metropolitan expansion to the Clean Water Act, civil rights battles inside City Hall, neighborhood environmental justice campaigns, and lawsuits. It opens with the spectacular 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse and uses that catastrophe to uncover decades of deferred maintenance, racial inequality, and fragmented governance beneath a booming Sunbelt metropolis. Tracing the rise…

|9780822948162|Race and Place in the American City|Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars explore the many ways that urban Black people across the United States built their own communities; crafted their own strategies for self-determination; and shaped the larger economy, culture, and politics of the urban environment and of their cities, regions, and nation. This volume not only highlights long-running changes over time…

|9780822948339|Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism| Longlist, 2025 Architecture Book Awards – Architectural Theory To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for…

|9780822946380|Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World|Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people. Essays examine traditional artifacts…