|9780822968207|Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945–2005|Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a difficult 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. Starting from the tragic 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse, Eric M. Hardy uses that catastrophe to uncover decades of deferred maintenance, racial inequality, and fragmented governance beneath a booming Sunbelt metropolis. Tracing the…

|9780822947431|Technology, Politics, and Environmentalism, 1945–2005|Perched on the Eastern Continental Divide, Atlanta has always been a difficult 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. Starting from the tragic 1993 Orme Street sewer collapse, Eric M. Hardy uses that catastrophe to uncover decades of deferred maintenance, racial inequality, and fragmented governance beneath a booming Sunbelt metropolis. Tracing the…

|9780822949299|Currents of Change in the Pittsburgh Environment|Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers where they join to flow into the Ohio, the city of Pittsburgh has been shaped by its material environment—the rocky, grimy, watery base on which it stands. It has also been shaped by industrial activity, as the city has cycled through growth and expansion, deindustrialization, and renewal. Today, many former industrial sites have been replaced by research, shopping, and recreation—but change is not always consistent, and whether Pittsburgh has entirely moved to a sustainable future remains to be seen. Renewal, Regression, and Revival is…

|9780822968603|Currents of Change in the Pittsburgh Environment|Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers where they join to flow into the Ohio, the city of Pittsburgh has been shaped by its material environment—the rocky, grimy, watery base on which it stands. It has also been shaped by industrial activity, as the city has cycled through growth and expansion, deindustrialization, and renewal. Today, many former industrial sites have been replaced by research, shopping, and recreation—but change is not always consistent, and whether Pittsburgh has entirely moved to a sustainable future remains to be seen. Renewal, Regression, and Revival is…

|9780822968535|Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism| Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in 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 Europe, a very different continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for…