Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis - Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

 

 Introduction: The Uncounted Environmentalists

 1 The Breakdown of the City

 2 "Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities": St. Louis and the Fight against Lead Poisoning

 3 "We Must Destroy You to Save You": Baltimore's Freeway Revolt

 4 The Knee-in-the-Groin Approach: The Citizen's Action Program and Environmental Protest in Chicago

 5 "City Dwellers Are in the Greatest Danger": Urban Environmentalism in the 1970s

 Conclusion: Missed Opportunities

 

 Appendix: Archival Abbreviations

 Notes

 Index

About the author

Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College.

Summary

Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during late 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, and political conflicts.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gioielli, Robert R. Gioielli
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2014
• EAN: 9781439904657
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0465-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous