Weeds by Zachary Falck
A comprehensive history of happenstance plants in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, Falck examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles.-
Land of Sunshine
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Garbage In The Cities
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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments
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Paris After Haussmann
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City of Lake and Prairie
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The Lung Block
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Nature's Entrepot
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Grounding Berlin
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Krakow
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Urban Infrastructure
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Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy
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Energy Capitals
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Germany's Urban Frontiers
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A Negotiated Landscape
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Metropolitan Natures
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Desert Cities
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Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
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The City Natural
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Motor City Green
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Energy Metropolis
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A Mighty Capital under Threat
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Refining Nature
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The Age of Smoke
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Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability
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Coastal Metropolis
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Urban Rivers
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The Sanitary City
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Power on the Hudson
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Effluent America
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On The Border
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Rivers in History
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Unnatural Resources
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Inevitably Toxic
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Slick Policy
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River City and Valley Life
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London
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Between Ruin and Restoration
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Precious Commodity
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City on Fire
The historiography of the persistence of happenstance plants and the enduring human conception of their meaning has found rich expression in this bookIndeed Falck's insights offer a singular contribution to a field that began forty years ago by interrogating the formation of the conservation movement and its wild and monumental artifacts—the national forests and parks—as emblems of the American claim to be nature's nation.
* American Historical Review *Gives a novel perspective . . . Falck's fascinating, detailed case studies of court proceedings to compel residents to remove 'weeds' from their land remind us that the land of the free has been remarkably authoritarian in its pursuit of the ubiquitous American lawn.
* Australian Garden History *An important reconsideration of the story of urban development during the last two centurires. . . . Commendable for its author's ability to tease out the social and the ecological in order to tell a sophisticated urban environmental history.
* Environmental History *Falck reinterprets cities from the perspective of some of their most unwanted inhabitants—the plants that choked vacant lots and sprang from sidewalk cracks. Such vegetation reveals how residents experienced urban life—their aspirations and discontents, their feelings about their neighbors, and what they did about it all. Who knew so much history lay among the weeds?"
* Jared Orsi, Colorado State University *Zachary J. S. Falck, Ph.D. is a historian who resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780822964025 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822964023 |
| Title | Weeds |
| Author | Zachary Falck |
| Series | History Of The Urban Environment |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2016-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |