Illustrations  vii

Acknowledgments  ix

Preface  xi

Prologue  1

Introduction  7

Part I. Fluid Urbanism  19

1. Water Ecology, Island City  23

2. Transoceanic New York, City of Rivers  35

3. The Maritime Sky of Manhattan  55

4. Thinking Metropolitanism  70

Part II. Cosmopolitan Frugality  93

5. Nomadic Urbanism and Frugality  95

6. Nyerere, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi: Cultures of Frugality  110

Part III. Ecological Expressivity  131

7. Greening Hardscape  133

8. Marathon City, Biking Boroughs  151

Part IV. Maritime Mentalities  167

9. Brooklyn Carnival and the Sale of Dreamland  169

10. Spirits of Necropolis, Planes on the Hudson  179

11. Governors Island: Maritime Pasts, Ecological Futures  189

12. After Hurricane Sandy  204

Conclusion: Toward a Praxis of Cosmopolitan Citizenship  211

Notes  213

Bibliography  231

Index  239

“Joseph addresses vital topics like city planning for ecological sustainability and how the city must meet the needs of a heterogeneous population. . . . Joseph expresses both affection and concern for her city, highlighting both its creative potential and provincial hubris it must outgrow.”—Publishers Weekly

“I relished Joseph’s vivid accounts of New Yorkers’ communal campaigns against the wanton destruction of urban green spaces that had been a source of pleasure, solace and inspiration to citizens for many decades. She demonstrates that environmental challenges bring people together, no matter how disparate and apparently divided the population of a large city may seem to be. . . . [I]t speaks powerfully to a critical moment in urban ecology.”—Laurence Coupe, Times Higher

“A tour-de-force, Fluid New York should be read and absorbed by anyone interested in how urbanism has recently developed along with ecology and how it continues to evolve within an ecological context.”—Jim Elledge, The Mom Egg

“Joseph addresses vital topics like city planning for ecological sustainability and how the city must meet the needs of a heterogeneous population. . . . Joseph expresses both affection and concern for her city, highlighting both its creative potential and provincial hubris it must outgrow.”—Publishers Weekly

“I relished Joseph’s vivid accounts of New Yorkers’ communal campaigns against the wanton destruction of urban green spaces that had been a source of pleasure, solace and inspiration to citizens for many decades. She demonstrates that environmental challenges bring people together, no matter how disparate and apparently divided the population of a large city may seem to be. . . . [I]t speaks powerfully to a critical moment in urban ecology.”—Laurence Coupe, Times Higher

“A tour-de-force, Fluid New York should be read and absorbed by anyone interested in how urbanism has recently developed along with ecology and how it continues to evolve within an ecological context.”—Jim Elledge, The Mom Egg

"Fluid New York is a beautifully written and conceived book. Based on rich ethnographic material, May Joseph develops a persuasive vision of New York as a city with an emerging culture of 'fluid urbanism.' Her compelling arguments offer a way to rethink space and performative cultures in cities such as Bangalore, Beijing, and Dar es Salaam, and to put New York in dialogue with those cities and their urbanisms. This is wonderful, vivid, and insightful work."—Smriti Srinivas, author of Landscapes of Urban Memory and In the Presence of Sai Baba

"This important book illuminates new ideas that took hold of the bodies and minds of New Yorkers in the decade after September 11. May Joseph's New York is characterized by the radical implosion and intensification of global difference. Her narrative consistently gives voice to people who have always been present in New York but not often heard from."—Brian McGrath, Research Chair in Urban Design, Parsons The New School for Design

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