Concrete Jungle

"A fascinating read, and New Yorkers will find much to interest them in discovering often overlooked historical features."

Autorentext
Niles Eldredge is Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History and codeveloper with Stephen Jay Gould of the theory of punctuated equilibria in evolutionary biology. Among his many books are Life in the Balance and Dominion (UC Press).

Sidney Horenstein is a geologist and Environmental Educator Emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History and the natural history consultant to the Bronx County Historical Society. He has written extensively about New York City geology.

Klappentext
"Concrete Jungle is a brilliant exploration of New York City's environmental treasures and why it is so important to preserve them. The book's clarity and lucid prose will appeal to academics and general readers alike, to lovers of cities as well as environmentalists." ~William Helmreich, author of The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City

"Building sustainable cities is a novel idea to many people, including conservationists, but it is arguably the best option our species has for resolving most of our global environmental problems. Concrete Jungle makes this case in a stimulating and accessible way."
~ Michael McKinney, University of Tennessee and Editorial Board, Urban Naturalist


Zusammenfassung
If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world's ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity.

Inhalt
Preface: The Yin and Yang of Cities

1. Regarding Broadway: The Urban Saga and the New York Microcosm

2. Forest Primeval
Building Stones

3. Landscape Transformed
Around the American Museum of Natural History
East River Shoreline

4. Growth of the Concrete Jungle
One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Street
Queensboro Bridge and East River

5. Fouling, and Cleaning, the Nest
The High Bridge

6. Invasion and Survival
John Torrey
Fort Tryon Park
The Battery
The Sea Wall

7. Resilience, Restoration, and Redemption
Canyonlands and the Future

8. Cities, Globalization, and the Future of Biodiversity

Notes, References, and Suggestions for Further Reading
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Index

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