Fresh Kills : a history of consuming and discarding in New York City /
"Fresh Kills-a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island-was once the world's largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City's refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towe...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The Dilemma of Consuming
- The Backdrop
- Island City
- Wasting Away
- Staten Island : Borough of Last Resort
- The Quarantine
- Garbage War
- Seeking a Disposal Sink
- Go-Away Society
- One Best Way
- Futile Protests
- Living with and Surviving the Landfill
- The Burning Question
- End of Isolation
- Environmental Turn
- Fiscal Crisis, and Disposal Dilemma
- Fresh Kills at Midlife
- Barge to Nowhere
- A New Plan
- The Road to Closure
- Secession
- Closure
- Now What?
- The Post-Closure Era
- 9/11
- Regeneration
- Crossroads.
