1.) Drug-resistant infectious diseases often thrive in cities. Gretchen Daily of Stanford University, Mark Lappe (author of ?Breakout?) and Rodney Dietert of Cornell University speak on infectious diseases, environmental degradation, population growth and preventive care.(2) On sustainable cities, Randolph Croxton speak on how automobile suburbs take too much land and resources; James Kunstler (author of ?Geography of Nowhere?), on how these are destructive to social and economic life. Ray Bromley, professor of geography at University at Albany thinks that ?in filling? the city and overcoming racial problems and social tensions are of higher priority in improving urban life.(3) Reg Modlin of Chrysler and Sheila Lynch of Northeast Alternative Vehicle Coalition debate on whether electric vehicle mandates should be continued.(4)Jeff Canada, author and children?s advocate, speaks of living in 108th Street, NY and how people give character to urban centers.

Date created

• 1995 November 5

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Chartock, Alan

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 1.075

Date Digitized

• 2009 November 3

Master Format

• WAV

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_es_000305

Subject

• Urban Life
• Electric cars
• Infectious Diseases

Digitization Specifications

• Popped tabs, Encoding: 24bit/48khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 7.3 ; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Dell Precision T7400 with a 2.33 Ghz Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

88e1f8d49bd0d334e5f17bf80dc68e9b

Scope and Contents

Collection

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive