Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
An Illustrated Book Talk
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Updated Time! 6:30 PM
Updated Location!
Silver Center at New York University
100 Washington Square East, Room 300
(Entrance on Waverly Place)
Join former HDC staffer and Portland State University Professor Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recently published book Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City.
Taming Manhattan details the environmental history of the city in the years before and during the Civil War, when pigs roamed the streets and cows foraged in the Battery. As city blocks encroached on farmland and undeveloped space to accommodate an exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers and their poorer neighbors developed very different ideas about what the city environment should contain. This presentation will focus on nineteenth-century New York City’s long forgotten shantytowns, the people living in the communities, and how outsiders viewed the architecture and communities developing on the metropolitan periphery.
This program is free, but reservations are required as space is limited.
To RSVP please contact Michelle Arbulu at [email protected] or 212-614-9107.
This program is being co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies