In "The Environment and the People in American Cities," Dorceta E.
Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban
environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States.
Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite
reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the
perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from
the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how
social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of
questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While
many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife
and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues
to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism.
Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban
environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty;
sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate
housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health
and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land
use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical
analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and
perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism
and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her
analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and
environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She
describes the displacement of people of color for the production of
natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity
between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy
relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the
business community, and the continuous resistance against
environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from
marginal communities.
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