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

Informationen zum Autor Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Klappentext Robert R. Gioielli is Assistant Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Robert Gioielli, Robert R. Gioielli
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781439904664
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0466-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: 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