| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. x + 282 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, references, index. Paper $24.00.
Julie Sze provides a refreshing look at environmental justice struggles in Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Sze abandons the overworked "race versus class" argument in favor of a nuanced, complicated picture of the policies that created environmental inequalities and the activism surrounding it in New York City.	1
Urban planning giant Robert Moses figures prominently in the book as Sze details the effects of his sweeping changes on the landscape of the city. Noxious New York does not necessarily present Moses as outwardly racist, but certainly the effects of his top-down planning, often ignoring the pleas of communities, relegated these areas to degradation. Sze also criticizes more modern leaders, especially Rudolph Guiliani. The former mayor created numerous problems with his support for privatizing waste services and the deregulation of energy, decisions also made in the wake of substantial community opposition.	. . .

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