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A Cultural History of Waste Disposal: Environmental Policy and Park Redevelopments

English

By (author): Benjamin A. Lawson

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments.
New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv are currently redeveloping giant landfills into parks, with much booster fanfare. The park redevelopments may be seen as an attempt to erase or assuage the decades of problematic waste-disposal policy that led to the creation of such large landfills. Booster rhetoric underscores this pointsuch as promoting how the parks will be a green lung for the city. This book contextualises these redevelopments by offering a historical analysis, providing the context from which to better understand recent, current, and potential issues and developments. The book goes on to analyse the rhetoric and media coverage surrounding former-waste sites becoming park-redevelopments, including how cities use art to promote their image and gain cultural relevance. By engaging with both the works of waste historians and literature on waste and discard studies, this book provides theoretical models for analysing the role of power in municipal systems, as well as human and ecological impacts on waste. The book concludes with analysis of the features necessary for landfill-parks to be successful.
This book will be useful for scholars, researchers and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and environmental/eco artists.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 11 Dec 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781032560717

About Benjamin A. Lawson

Benjamin A. Lawson is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith where he has a research and teaching focus on urban-environmental history science and technology and teacher licensure.

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