Falck, Zachary J. S

Pittsburgh. 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822964025. History of the Urban Environment. 280 pages. paperback. Cover photograph: (top) Detail from photograph of mulleins and child about one mile south of Chicago's Jackson Park in the early 1900s, (bottom) Verbascum in Brooklyn, 2005, photograph by Zachary J. S. Falck. Cover design: Ann Walston. keywords: Environmental History Urban Studues. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Falck's insights offer a singular contribution to a field that began forty years ago by interrogating the formation of the conservation movement and its wild and monumental artifacts - the national forests and parks - as emblems of the American claim to be nature's nation.' - American Historical Review. Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of ‘happenstance plants' in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles. In the twenty-first century, Falck shows that nature continues to flourish where humans have struggled: in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in the abandoned homes of the California housing bust, and alongside crumbling infrastructure. Weeds are here to stay. inventory #42709 ISBN: 9780822964025.