The Search for the Ultimate Sink
Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4027255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Rome (0000-0002-7508-0784) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 781 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The search for the ultimate sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective, Joel A Tarr, 1996 |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3106889 |
| OpenAlex | W4301019329 |
| Language | EN |
Biology · Cartography · Economic geography · Environmental planning · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Sink (geography) · American Environmental and Regional History · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Environmental Science · Pollution
Frail modernities
Selling the sociotechnical sublime
The antinomies of nature and space
The material politics of living in close proximity to our wastewaters
Flowing toxics
“Down Beside where the Waters Flow
Engineering Risk and Disaster
Dumping military waste into Lake Superior
Historicizing the environmental Kuznets Curve
Living side by side
Industrialisation, manure and water quality in the 19th century. The Senne River in Brussels as a case study
Local government responses to urban river pollution in late medieval England
The long-term evolution of urban waters and their nineteenth century transformation in European cities. A comparative environmental history
The rise and fall of Munich’s early modern water network
Urban water-related environmental transitions in Southeast Asia
The Nature of Gentrification
Recycling Modernity
Simulating the potential of trees to reduce particulate matter pollution in urban areas throughout the year
Under the Lawn
Rethinking urban metabolism
Envisioning the political ecology of mitigation in a microelectronic disaster setting
Water Dreams, Earthen Histories
Emerging from the Wilderness (or, from Redwoods to Bananas)
Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900-1975
Sheffield's Great Flood of 1864
Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900-1948
The Paradox of Smokeless Fuels
From toxic industries to green extractivism
The incineration of refuse is beautiful
At a green crossroads
Ecological Economics and Environmental History
Polluter Versus Polluter
The Hidden Landscape of Yosemite National Park
Should we go "home" to eat
Environmental Dimensions of Urban Change
Atlantic Gardens in Mediterranean Climates
Caring for waste
Green Urban Political Ecologies
Ecological infrastructure in a critical-historical perspective
Water
Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties
Water-flushing toilets
Death and the human environment
Constructing Urban Expertise
Green Infrastructure, Grey Epistemologies, and the Urban Political Ecology of Pittsburgh's Water Governance
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
An Economic History of Zoning and a Cure for its Exclusionary Effects
Urban infrastructures, metabolic resource flows and the contradictions of circular economy ‘solutions’ in Nantes and Gothenburg
Pesticides, pollution and the UK's silent spring, 1963–1964
The Geographies of Garbage Governance
The Environmental Policy of Charles I
Waste governance and ecological identity in Maui, Hawaii, USA
Ecological modernization and its discontents
Corporate social responsibility before CSR
The Historical Nature of Cities
Waste
Uncovering the Historic Environmental Hazards of Urban Brownfields
Site History
Environmental Justice
La conflictividad agraria en la definición del «pueblo»
The historical impact of coal on cities
Australia's Smoke City
Don't wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
Waste Matters
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |