David Stradling: 2 books
Where the River Burned
Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in...
Making Mountains
New York City and the Catskills
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come...