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 Water for Gotham by Gerard Koeppel, Princeton, 2001, $19.95 |
Books about the Ecology
of New York City
- Natural History of New York City
- by John Kieran, Fordham University Press, 1982, $17.50
Reports on 50 years of study and enjoyment of wildlife in and around New York. - Nature Walks in and Around New York City
- by Sheila Buff, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1996, $14.95
A valuable guide to New York City’s 26,000 acres of wild and beautiful park lands. - New York's 50 Best Places to Go Birding in and Around the Big Apple
- by John Thaxton, City & Co., 1998, $15.00
- Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
- by Marie Winn, Vintage Books; 1999, $13.00
- Heartbeats in the Muck: A Dramatic Look at the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor
- by John R. Waldman, Lyons Press, 2000, $24.95
Ichthyologist Waldman traces the fate of the harbor from the 17th century, when it teemed with oysters, fish, porpoises and whales to today's pollution. - Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
- by Ann L. Buttenweiser, Syracuse University Press, 1999, $19.95
- The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River
- by Stephen P. Stanne, Rutgers Univ Press, 1996, $23.95
Brings Clearwater’s wealth of knowledge about the Hudson to a wider audience. - Water for Gotham
- by Gerard T. Koeppel, Princeton Univ. Press, 2001, $19.95
“The chief disadvantage of New York," observed Swedish botanist Peter Kalm in the mid-18th century, "is the want of good water." Water for Gotham shows how that lack was overcome.
“Extraordinarily well-researched and remarkably readable”— Caleb Carr, New York Times Book Review - Fat of the Land: The Garbage Of New York--The Last Two Hundred Years
- by Benjamin Miller, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, 2000, $18.00
Former director of policy planning at NYC DOS brings light to an often hidden subject, assessing who gains and who loses in the endless battle over garbage. - A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
- by Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace, Verso Books, March 2001, $20.00
- 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
- by Clifton Hood, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995, $16.95
- Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives
- by Diana Balmori, Margaret Morton, Yale Univ. Press, 1995, $22.50
Shows, in word and pictures, gardens built by homeless or impoverished New Yorkers. The book offers insight into the meaning of landscape and the place of a garden in the life of an individual under duress. - The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of a City
- by Robert Sullivan, Anchor Books, 1999, $12.95
Reveals a landscape bursting with nature amid the detritus of urban consumption. - Fields of Sun and Grass: An Artist's Journal of the New Jersey Meadowlands
- by John R. Quinn, Rutgers Univ Press, 1997, $22.50
Describes the ecology and history of the meadowlands and the pressures they face today. - Oyster Wars and the Public Trust: Property, Law, and Ecology in New Jersey History
- by Bonnie J. McCay, University of Arizona Press, 1998, $45.00
- The Riverkeepers
- by John Cronin, Robert F. Kennedy, Touchstone Books, 1999, $14.00
Sheds light on how the modern environmental movement emerged at the local level and how it is striving to deal with the current, more hostile political landscape.