About this title: It's difficult to imagine today what Manhattan would have looked like to its early explorers - before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections. Ten years ago landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson came across a British Headquarters map from 1782. By geographically matching, or geo-referencing, this historical map with a map of ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Abrams
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780810996335ISBN:0810996332
Description: Boyer, Markley. Very good in very good dust jacket. "Ted" sticker inside with bookmark. One in number line. No damage or markings. A very clean copy. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780810996335ISBN:0810996332
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 352 pages. It's difficult to imagine what manhattan would have looked like to its explorers-before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections. although the lush forests, rolling hills and streams have disappeared, this work aims to bring this wild island to life through text, maps, illustrations and computer visualisations. 120 colour images (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: HARRY N ABRAMS INC
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780810996335ISBN:0810996332
Description: Filled with 120 full-color illustrations that show what Manhattan looked like 400 years ago, this natural history of New York City is a groundbreaking work that offers a window into the past and inspiration for green cities and wild places of the future. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780810996335ISBN:0810996332
Description: New. It's difficult to imagine what Manhattan would have looked like to its explorers-before the skyscrapers, the crowded sidewalks and the busy intersections. Although the lush forests, rolling hills and streams have disappeared, this work aims to bring... read more
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"beautiful color illustrations & maps (some "reimagined") make up the bulk of this hefty tome, which celebrates the remarkable history of Manhattan Island & its early inhabitants (starting from 1609). this is an overall must-have reference of Mannahatta for fans & non-fans alike."
"Mostly pictures, really interesting ones. This is a landscape ecologist's attempt to reconstruct what Manhattan island was like before Europeans arrived. He estimates that the island was occupied by humans for about 10,000 years before Hudson, but they had a much lighter footprint that the current inhabitants. Fascinating. I am starting to thing of myself as an island person.
Actually, having gone through most of it, I think it is worth looking though for the pictures, but the text is highly speculative and not that compelling. There are much better book about saving the planet and pre_Columbian America"
"Incredibly well-researched and very innovative. The programs Sanderson and the landscape ecologists working on this project have come up with to understand the relationships between the different factors that makes landscape ecology different from ecology (their attention to factors other than animals and their ecological niches, evolutionary processes, etc., but rather the incorporation of soil types -- among other factors -- and what that means for plants and the animals that interact in ecological niches) are spectacular! His recreation and description of the different ecological neighborhoods across Mannahatta are sometimes so radically separate from what the landscape looks like today that it is amazing to take this journey with him. His studies could benefit from anthropological analyses of social relations and ecology in the human context. He describes neighborhoods in the way he describes ecological landscapes and in this way, his description and understanding of human environments demonstrates a very serious lack of insight into the cultural and social aspects that make human beings different from other animals despite the elements we do share with other animals. He ignores political and economic factors as well, besides socio-cultural ones. I found this unsettling in a marked way. Furthermore, there is an implicit bias for Manhattan which seems obvious given that it is Manhattan that is the theme of the book but it is about much more than that. His bias leads him to make the wild suggestion that large parts of Brooklyn -- and from the look of his maps -- the whole of Queens should be turned into farmland to feed the Metropolis. The same goes for neighborhoods in Long Island, New Jersey, etc. Presumably the rest of the Eastern Seaboard can be Manhattan's breadbasket and hinterland, according to some of the suggestions made in the book about resources and making Manhattan more sustainable in the future. He has very little appreciation for architecture and its social meaning as well. His arguments against the actually very useful subway system in NYC are baffling considering how productive the Subways are in NYC, a model not just for other US cities but for the world, even. His bias against the outer boroughs -- with the mild exception of Brooklyn -- demonstrates a classist/urbanist approach to understanding the future of cities that is hard to overlook given all the extensive and innovative research conducted for this book."
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