1st Edition
A Cultural History of Waste Disposal Environmental Policy and Park Redevelopments
By Benjamin A. Lawson
Copyright 2025
180 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a historical analysis of 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 to much fanfare. The park redevelopments may be seen as an... Read more
Chapter One: A Cultural History of Waste
Chapter Two: Waste Disposal before Environmental Regulation
Chapter Three: Environmental Regulation and Constraints
Chapter Four: Waste Crisis and Sustainable Development
Chapter Five: Representing Redevelopment
Conclusion
Biography
Benjamin A. Lawson is 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.
