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April 20, 2021

Browse Our UAA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Lowell Frye

Hello, and welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for the 2021 Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting! My name is Lowell Frye and I’m an associate editor here at the press, acquiring books in urban studies. This is the second...

September 28, 2020

Martin V. Melosi on Garbage and Climate Change

“Fresh Kills frames Staten Island’s iconic landfill as not just a repository for solid waste but also a monument to consumer culture. This is an immensely readable and valuable book by a distinguished scholar of environmental history.” ~Michael Rawson, author...

April 4, 2020

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

“Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended...

April 3, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our New Books in Urban History

Hello and welcome back to Columbia’s UAA Virtual Book Exhibit. My name is Stephen Wesley, and I’m the American history editor here at Columbia. I’m pleased to share with you several new books we have in urban history. First up...

January 7, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Fresh Kills, Forms of Poetic Attention, A Slave Between Empires and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fresh Kills A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Martin V. Melosi Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi...

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Tag: Fresh Kills

Browse Our UAA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Lowell Frye

Martin V. Melosi on Garbage and Climate Change

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our New Books in Urban History

New Book Tuesday! Fresh Kills, Forms of Poetic Attention, A Slave Between Empires and more!