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02827aam a2200409 i 4500 001 180D58CE1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140806010537 008 140320t20142014paua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014004483 020 $a 1439904650 (hardback) 020 $a 9781439904657 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)863200206 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HT243.U6 $b G56 2014 082 00 $a 304.2/0917320973 $2 23 084 $a NAT011000 $a SOC026030 $a NAT011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Gioielli, Robert, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Environmental activism and the urban crisis : $b Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago / $c Robert Gioielli. 264 1 $a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : $b Temple University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a ix, 211 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Urban life, landscape and policy 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a " Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and suburbanization caused the decline of the urban environment, residents--primarily African Americans and working-class whites--organized to protect their families and communities from health threats and environmental destruction. Gioielli examines various groups' activism in response to specific environmental problems caused by the urban crisis in each city. In doing so, he forms concrete connections between environmentalism, the African American freedom struggle, and various urban social movements such as highway protests in Baltimore and air pollution activism in Chicago. Eventually, the efforts of these activists paved the way for the emergence of a new movement-environmental justice. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Urban ecology (Sociology) $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Sociology, Urban $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Sustainable urban development $z United States $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Environmentalism $z United States $v Case studies. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Urban life, landscape, and policy. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017025607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=180D58CE1D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search