winner of the 2015 prose award for us history a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population

gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth

a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population

gotham unbound the ecological history of greater new york simon amp schuster june 2014 is ted steinberg x27 s sweeping ecological history of one of the most man made spots on earth from mannahatta to hurricane sandy

a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population ted steinberg brings a vanished new york back to vivid rich life

a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population

gotham unbound is the captivating story of the creation of greater new york one of the most man made places on earth ted steinberg brings a vanished environment back to life in this powerful account of the four century history that transformed a vast system of marshlands and oyster reefs into america x27 s largest metropolis

gotham unbound the ecological history of greater new york theodore steinberg quot when henry hudson dropped anchor in 1609 mannahatta was a vast forest inhabited by the lenape indians over the years it gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands from governor john

a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population

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gotham unbound the ecological history of new york as we approach the second anniversary of hurricane sandy join ted steinberg professor of law and history at case western reserve university as he addresses the urgent question can new york city survive the sea steinberg will use his new book gotham unbound which charts the transformation of the new york region over three centuries

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this is the story of the monumental struggle between new york and the natural world from henry hudson x27 s discovery of mannahatta to hurricane sandy gotham unbound is ted steinberg x27 s sweeping ecological history of one of the most man made spots on earth

gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population ted steinberg brings a vanished new york back to vivid rich life

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winner of the 2015 prose award for us history a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation amp 8217 s

his most recent book gotham unbound the ecological history of greater new york 2014 reinterprets the new york metropolitan area x27 s history from an environmental perspective and argues against the commonly held view that geography determined the city x27 s destiny

it is the story of new york x27 s struggle with the natural world of the lives and decisions that transformed waterscape and landscape so as to accommodate 6 percent of the nation x27 s entire population it is the story of gotham unbound quot book jacket

gotham unbound the ecological history of greater new york from henry hudson x27 s discovery of manhattan to hurricane sandy steinberg provides a sweeping ecological history of one of the most man made spots on earth

history the bluebelt program was initiated in the late 1980s by new york city x27 s departments of environmental protection and department of city planning based on a suggestion made several decades earlier by ian mcharg a landscape architect acquisition of land began in 1991 for the project one of the northeast united states x27 most ambitious stormwater management efforts

ted steinberg author of gotham unbound recounts five transformations to the ecology of great new york and how they impacted its residents category education

winner of the 2015 prose award for us history a quot fascinating encyclopedic history of greater new york city through an ecological lens quot publishers weekly starred review the sweeping story of one of the most man made spots on earth gotham unbound recounts the four century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation x27 s population