摘要：Over the last decade there have been a number of attempts to both imagineManhattan’s pre-colonial past and to envisage new ways in which the metropolitan island(and the greater New York area) might more productively relate to its location within a majorestuarine environment. Rising sea levels associated with global warming have given aparticular focus, not to say sense of urgency, to this enterprise. This essay reviews several ofthe aforementioned projects and discusses their conceptual parameters with reference torecent debates in Island Studies concerning the concept of the aquapelago. Consideration isgiven to aspects of the cultural imagination of place and conceptions of the integration ofhuman/urban and natural ecosystems. Drawing on these discussions, the essay outlines themanner in which established analyses of aquapelagic assemblages can be expanded toembrace metropolitan island environments.
关键词：Manhattan; Mannahatta; New York; aquapelago; sea; level rise; oysters
