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Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future by Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein (review)

Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future by Niles Eldredge... Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein. University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2014. 288 pp.; maps, diagrams, illustations, notes, bibliog., index. $27.55 cloth (ISBN 978-0520270152). georgina g. deweese University of West Georgia Concrete Jungle covers a wide range of topics, not all of them thoroughly, that represent a culmination of the interests and research of the authors, Eldredge and Horenstein, both long-time scholars and employees of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (NYC). The title of the book gave me the impression that it would describe how NYC, as a large city, has tackled urban environmental problems and developed a sustainability plan. However, this book was more a short history--political, geological and biogeographical--of the city. The title speaks more to the authors' own love and admiration for the city than it does any actual plans or policies the city has in place for the future. This book would be of great interest and usefulness to anyone from NYC and scholars actively involved in research in NYC because of the historical information the book offers. Concrete Jungle itself does not adequately cover http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Geographer University of North Carolina Press

Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future by Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein (review)

Southeastern Geographer , Volume 56 (2) – Jul 1, 2016
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Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future Niles Eldredge and Sidney Horenstein. University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2014. 288 pp.; maps, diagrams, illustations, notes, bibliog., index. $27.55 cloth (ISBN 978-0520270152). georgina g. deweese University of West Georgia Concrete Jungle covers a wide range of topics, not all of them thoroughly, that represent a culmination of the interests and research of the authors, Eldredge and Horenstein, both long-time scholars and employees of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (NYC). The title of the book gave me the impression that it would describe how NYC, as a large city, has tackled urban environmental problems and developed a sustainability plan. However, this book was more a short history--political, geological and biogeographical--of the city. The title speaks more to the authors' own love and admiration for the city than it does any actual plans or policies the city has in place for the future. This book would be of great interest and usefulness to anyone from NYC and scholars actively involved in research in NYC because of the historical information the book offers. Concrete Jungle itself does not adequately cover

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Southeastern Geographer – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jul 1, 2016

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