Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A "fascinating,
encyclopedic history...of greater New York City through an
ecological lens" (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's
population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid,
rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a
dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster
reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to
an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie,
who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on
Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and
Michael Bloomberg. "Weighty and wonderful...Resting on a sturdy
foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg's volume begins
with Henry Hudson's arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends
with another transformative event--Hurricane Sandy in 2012" (The
Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the
relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged
headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of
salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people,
asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.
With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with
rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most
important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous
situation. "Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that
geography is destiny....And he makes the strong case that for all
the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself
is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy" (The New York
Times).
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