References
Rather than a complete bibliography, we are including a selection of relevant books, journal and newspaper articles and other materials not included in the exhibition or the archival materials sections of this website. One of the reasons we undertook this project is that there has been almost no serious discussion of pneumatic waste collection outside the engineering literature of the 1970s. The aim is to share documents that were important to this project and to provide a point of departure for further reading. We did not include materials on garbage collection itself as this is well covered elsewhere.
Pneumatic transport
Lamson pneumatic tubes for conveying papers and merchandise. Boston: Lamson Company, 1920.
Mattern, Shannon, “Puffs of Air: Communicating by Vacuum,” in Air: Alphabet City 15, ed. John Knechtel, Cambridge, MA: Alphabet City Media, Inc. and MIT Press, 2010.
Steenson, Molly Wright, “Interfacing with the Subterranean.” Cabinet 41 (Spring 2011): 82-6.
——. Ignite: Molly Wright Steenson – A Series of Tubes, EP 7, March 9, 2009; 5 min.; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSeL_LfdbA (accessed August 1, 2011)
Pneumatic waste collection
Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah Saeed and Abu-Rizaiza, Asad Seraj, “Report: Pipeline transport of solid waste in the Grand Holy Mosque in Makkah.” Waste Management & Research 1, no. 5, (October 2003): 474-9.
Bravo, Arthur C., “Environmental Systems at Walt Disney World.” Journal of the Environmental Engineering Division, (December 1975): 887-95.
Business Week, “Pollution Control: Dumping Garbage into a Vacuum.” (April 21, 1973)
Collins, Gail, “Sophisticated Systems for Handling Solid Waste.” Waste Age (May/June 1971)
Dellaire, Gene, “Pneumatic waste collection on the rise.” Civil Engineering ASCE, (August 1974): 82-5.
Hedlund, Thomas, The Envac Story: From Dust to Waste. Stockholm: Envac, 2006.
Metropolis Magazine, “What’s Next: Urban Planning.” Interview with Ken Greenberg, January 13, 2010. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20100113/whats-next-urban-planning (accessed August 1, 2011)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Feedback: Operation Breakthrough Phase 1 Planning and Design. Report prepared by HUD Office of Policy Development and Research with RTKL Associates Inc., Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.
Wise, A.F.E and John Swaffield, Water, Sanitary and Waste Services for Buildings. 5th ed., Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. 89-91.
Roosevelt Island’s AVAC system
Ascher, Kate, The Works: Anatomy of a City. New York: The Penguin Press, 2005. 199.
Stone, David, “Challenged Daily By A Mixed Bag of Problems, Engineer Tom Turcic Tends Roosevelt Island’s Aging Infrastructure.” Mainstreet Wire, November 7, 2009.
Taylor, Tess, “Pneumatic Whoosh.” New Yorker, (November 17, 2003): 66.
Urbina, Ian, “Roosevelt Island Journal: Whoosh Don’t Give Household Trash Another Thought.” New York Times, December 19, 2004.
Development of Roosevelt Island in the 1970s
Freemark, Yonah, “Roosevelt Island: Exception to a City in Crisis.” Journal of Urban History 37, no. 3 (May 2011): 355-83.
Mainstreet Wire Supplemental Coverage, “Full Transcript: Municipal Art Society panel on Ed Logue and Roosevelt Island, March 7, 2001.” March 24, 2001. http://nyc10044.com/wire/2114/mastran.html (accessed: August 1, 2011)
Miyakoda, Tooru and Isao Nakase, Robert Zion: A Profile in Landscape Architecture. Tokyo: Process Architecture Pub. Co., 1991. 115.
The New York State Urban Development Corporation Symposium & Exhibition Committee, “Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons from the Urban Development Corporation 1968-1975,” exhibition website, http://www.udchousing.org/index.htm (accessed: August 1, 2011)
Plunz, Richard, A History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling type and social change in the American metropolis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Steen, Ivan D., “New Town in the City: Edward J. Logue and His Vision for Roosevelt Island, New York.” Journal of Planning History 3 (September 2010): 183-197.
Stern, Robert A.M., Thomas Mellins, David Fishman, New York 1960: Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. 641-59.
Welfare Island Planning and Development Committee, “Report of the Welfare Island Planning and Development Committee: submitted to John F. Lindsay, Mayor, City of New York.” New York: The Committee, February 1969.
