TY  - GEN
T1  - Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats
T2  - Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
A1  - Biehler, Dawn
LA  - English
PP  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1298399877
AB  - From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In this book, the author argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As the author shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. -- Jacket.
OP  - 338
CN  - SB603.3
SN  - 9780295804866
SN  - 0295804866
SN  - 9780295993010
SN  - 0295993014
SN  - 9780295994826
SN  - 0295994827
KW  - Urban pests.
KW  - Pests : Control.
KW  - Urban health.
KW  - Social ecology.
KW  - Pest Control
KW  - Urban Health
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Social Marginalization
KW  - Animaux et plantes nuisibles urbains.
KW  - Animaux et plantes nuisibles : Lutte contre.
KW  - Santé urbaine.
KW  - Écologie sociale.
KW  - pest control.
KW  - human ecology.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Agriculture : General.
KW  - NATURE : Animals : Insects & Spiders.
KW  - Urban health
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Pests : Control
KW  - Urban pests
KW  - Insectes des villes : États-Unis : 20e siècle.
KW  - Rongeurs nuisibles : États-Unis : 20e siècle.
KW  - Insectes nuisibles : Lutte contre : États-Unis : 20e siècle.
KW  - Rongeurs : Lutte contre : États-Unis : 20e siècle.
ER  -