Crossing Great Divides
City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder
- 316 pages
- English
- PDF
- Only available on web
About This Book
Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at the root of our current environmental and political disorder.This oversimplifying dualism has distorted how we planned cities, our patterns of production and consumption, how we deal with waste, and how urban and rural populations perceive each other.Conventional urban environmental reform has made modern city life possible, but it has done little to limit the despoliation of distant places. Nevertheless, the successes of urban environmental reform remind us of what is possible.John Fairfield concludes with a case study of Phoenix, Arizona to demonstrate this dysfunctional relationship between city and country while developing a sympathetic critique of the Green New Deal. He suggests how we might bridge the "great divide" as we face the daunting challenges the twenty-first century is pressing upon us.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder
- Part II: An Ecological Narrativefor the City and Region
- Part III:The Challengesbefore Us
- EpilogueThe Need for Resilience
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index