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Table of Contents:

• Prologue: The Fish that Might Save Seattle
• 1. All the Forces of Nature Are on Their Side: The Unraveling of the Mixed World
• 2. The Work Which Nature Had Left Undone: Making Private Property on the Waterfront Commons
• 3. The Imagination and Creative Energy of the Engineer: Harnessing Nature's Forces to Urban Progress
• 4. Out of Harmony with the Wild Beauty of the Natural Woods: Artistry Versus Utility in Seattle's Olmsted Parks
• 5. Above the Weary Cares of Life: The Benefits and High Social Price of Outdoor Leisure
• 6. Junk-Yard for Human Junk: The Unnatural Ecology of Urban Poverty
• 7. Death for a Tired Old River: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Inequity in Postwar Seattle
• 8. Masses of Self-Centered People: Salmon and the Limits of Ecotopia in Emerald City
• Epilogue: The Geography of Hope: Toward an Ethic of Place and a City of Justice.

Author/Creator:

Klingle, Matthew W.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Emerald city: an environmental history of Seattle [by Klingle, M.W.]

Related Series:

Lamar series in western history

Subjects:

Human ecology — Seattle Metropolitan Area — Washington (State)

Urban ecology (Sociology) — Seattle Metropolitan Area — Washington (State)

Environmental degradation — Seattle Metropolitan Area — Washington (State)

Conservation of natural resources — Seattle Metropolitan Area — Washington (State)

Seattle (Wash.) — History

Seattle (Wash.) — Social conditions

Seattle (Wash.) — Environmental conditions

Human ecology

Urban ecology (Sociology)

Environmental degradation

Conservation of natural resources

Social conditions

Environmental conditions

Washington (State) — Southeast Seattle

Washington (State)

Washington (State) — Seattle

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xix, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GF504.W2 K55 2007

ISBNs:

9780300116410 (alk. paper)
0300116411 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007025159

OCLC Numbers:

152580651