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Nature's entrepôt: Philadelphia's urban sphere and its environmental thresholds
2012, University of Pittsburgh Press
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0822944170 9780822944171
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Brian C. Black
Ideal and reality in the early city
William Penn's Philadelphia : the land and the plan / Craig Zabel
"Pro bono publico" : ecology, history, and the creation of Philadelphia's fairmount park system / Elizabeth Milroy
The rise and fall of yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793-1805 / Thomas Apel
Locating patterns of industry and commerce in the expanding city
Bone boilers : nineteenth-century green businessmen? / Donna J. Rilling
"Publick service" versus "mans properties" : dock creek and the origin of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon
Industrial suburbs : environmental liabilities or assets? / Carolyn T. Adams
Landscape transformation in the growing city
The grid versus nature : the history and legacy of topographical change in Philadelphia / Adam Levine
Fed by the adjoining waters : the Delaware estuary's marine resources and the shaping of Philadelphia's metropolitan orbit / Michael J. Chiarappa
Metropolitan Philadelphia : sprawl, shrinkage, and sustainability / Robert J. Mason
Confronting the ecologies of the modern city
Restoring Mill creek : landscape, literacy, environmental history, and city planning and design / Anne Whiston Spirn
Saving ourselves by acting locally : the historical progression of grassroots environmental justice activism in the Philadelphia area, 1981-2001 / Diane Sicotte
Planning the food secure city : Philadelphia's agriculture, retrospect and prospect / Domenic Vitiello
Wolves in the Wissahickon : deer, humans, and the problem of ecology in an urban park / Ann N. Greene
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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