David R Soll
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Soll |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Soll |
| SIGNATURE | SOLL D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5059-0315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pollution, Pipes, and Progress
Meander
Pollution, Pipes, and Progress
Fresh Kills
Journal Article Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Get access Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. By Martin V Melosi. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xviii, 778 pp. Cloth, $120.00. Paper, $40.00.) David Soll David Soll University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
New York Recentered
Historians of New York City's built environment typically highlight the contributions of a handful of individuals—Frederick Law Olmstead, Egbert Viele, Andrew Haswell Green, and Robert Moses are the usual suspects—and fixate on Manhattan. Kara Murphy Schlichting provides a much-needed corrective to these trends. Although she discusses each of these men, and explores Moses's reshaping of wetlands in Queens for the 1939 New York World's Fair, most …
Feeding Gotham
In the early nineteenth century, residents of New York City relied primarily on public markets to obtain beef and other food supplies. However, in 1843, the city ended the public markets’ monopoly on beef sales, leading to a rapid privatization of food provisioning in the city. In Feeding Gotham, Baics explores the rise and fall of these markets, concluding that their demise led to deteriorating food access for lower income New Yorkers.Baics draw…
Urban Green
Journal Article Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. By Colin Fisher Get access Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. By Colin Fisher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xii plus 232 pp.). David Soll David Soll University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Soci…
Robert D. Lifset. Power on the Hudson
In 1962, Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), New York City’s electricity provider, unveiled plans to build a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain, fifty miles north of the city on the west bank of the Hudson River. Robert D. Lifset provides an intensively researched and well-written account of the controversy surrounding construction of the plant. According to Lifset, the eighteen-year battle between Con Ed and environmental activi…
Fighting Westway
Carl Smith. City Water, City Life
Studies of urban infrastructure development generally emphasize the technological or political dimensions of constructing networks to deliver essential services to growing populations. Carl Smith takes a different approach, using the construction of water systems in three American cities as a vehicle to explore the mental and physical landscape of a rapidly urbanizing country. In this intensively researched study, Smith demonstrates that building…
Healthy Country, Unhealthy City
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries. Using Manila and Lima as case studies, it argues that increases in life expectancy stemming from reduction in the incidence of infectious diseases led to significant rural population growth, spurring r…
City, Region, and In Between
Urban historians have greatly expanded their geographical purview in recent years, incorporating suburbs and hinterlands into their analysis of social and environmental change. Urban environmental historians and suburban historians have played a critical role in the regionalization of urban history over the last decade. This case study of the development of New York City’s water supply reveals the benefits of taking a regional approach to urban h…
Dance, Cellular Motion, and Computer Analysis
WHEATON: What we are really going to talk about is biology, computer imaging, electronic music, and dance. It might be reasonable for you to start out by giving a description of the science, a description of what it is you've got. SOLL: The laboratory I've developed at the University of Iowa is a basic biology research laboratory. It involves about 23 people, it is funded by NIH [National Institutes of Health], other agencies, private money. We'r…
City, Region, and In Between
Urban historians have greatly expanded their geographical purview in recent years, incorporating suburbs and hinterlands into their analysis of social and environmental change. Urban environmental historians and suburban historians have played a critical role in the regionalization of urban history over the last decade. This case study of the development of New York City’s water supply reveals the benefits of taking a regional approach to urban h…
New York Recentered
Historians of New York City's built environment typically highlight the contributions of a handful of individuals—Frederick Law Olmstead, Egbert Viele, Andrew Haswell Green, and Robert Moses are the usual suspects—and fixate on Manhattan. Kara Murphy Schlichting provides a much-needed corrective to these trends. Although she discusses each of these men, and explores Moses's reshaping of wetlands in Queens for the 1939 New York World's Fair, most …
Dance, Cellular Motion, and Computer Analysis
WHEATON: What we are really going to talk about is biology, computer imaging, electronic music, and dance. It might be reasonable for you to start out by giving a description of the science, a description of what it is you've got. SOLL: The laboratory I've developed at the University of Iowa is a basic biology research laboratory. It involves about 23 people, it is funded by NIH [National Institutes of Health], other agencies, private money. We'r…
Healthy Country, Unhealthy City
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries. Using Manila and Lima as case studies, it argues that increases in life expectancy stemming from reduction in the incidence of infectious diseases led to significant rural population growth, spurring r…
City, Region, and In Between
Urban historians have greatly expanded their geographical purview in recent years, incorporating suburbs and hinterlands into their analysis of social and environmental change. Urban environmental historians and suburban historians have played a critical role in the regionalization of urban history over the last decade. This case study of the development of New York City’s water supply reveals the benefits of taking a regional approach to urban h…
Carl Smith. City Water, City Life
Studies of urban infrastructure development generally emphasize the technological or political dimensions of constructing networks to deliver essential services to growing populations. Carl Smith takes a different approach, using the construction of water systems in three American cities as a vehicle to explore the mental and physical landscape of a rapidly urbanizing country. In this intensively researched study, Smith demonstrates that building…
Robert D. Lifset. Power on the Hudson
In 1962, Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), New York City’s electricity provider, unveiled plans to build a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain, fifty miles north of the city on the west bank of the Hudson River. Robert D. Lifset provides an intensively researched and well-written account of the controversy surrounding construction of the plant. According to Lifset, the eighteen-year battle between Con Ed and environmental activi…
Fighting Westway
Urban Green
Journal Article Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. By Colin Fisher Get access Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. By Colin Fisher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xii plus 232 pp.). David Soll David Soll University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Soci…
Feeding Gotham
In the early nineteenth century, residents of New York City relied primarily on public markets to obtain beef and other food supplies. However, in 1843, the city ended the public markets’ monopoly on beef sales, leading to a rapid privatization of food provisioning in the city. In Feeding Gotham, Baics explores the rise and fall of these markets, concluding that their demise led to deteriorating food access for lower income New Yorkers.Baics draw…
New York Recentered
Historians of New York City's built environment typically highlight the contributions of a handful of individuals—Frederick Law Olmstead, Egbert Viele, Andrew Haswell Green, and Robert Moses are the usual suspects—and fixate on Manhattan. Kara Murphy Schlichting provides a much-needed corrective to these trends. Although she discusses each of these men, and explores Moses's reshaping of wetlands in Queens for the 1939 New York World's Fair, most …
Meander
Pollution, Pipes, and Progress
Fresh Kills
Journal Article Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Get access Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. By Martin V Melosi. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xviii, 778 pp. Cloth, $120.00. Paper, $40.00.) David Soll David Soll University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Pollution, Pipes, and Progress
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)