Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

by Robert Gioielli

Book Overview

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439904669
• ISBN13: 9781439904664
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"