The nature of cities /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Studies in comparative history.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: new directions in urban environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg
- Urban spaces, death, and the body
- New Orleans's phantom slave insurrection of 1853: racial anxiety, urban ecology, and human bodies as public spaces / Ari Kelman
- Green space and class in imperial London / Peter Thorsheim
- The war on rats verses the right to keep chickens: plague and the paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 / Joanna L. Dyl
- Dead bodies in Harlem: environmental history and the geography of death / Ellen Stroud
- The geography of power and consumption
- Friend or flood? the dilemmas of water management in early modern Venice / Karl Appuhn
- Banking on Sacramento: urban development, flood control, and political legitimization, 1848-1862 / Andrew C. Isenberg
- Fair play: outdoor recreation and environmental inequality in twentieth-century Seattle / Matthew Klingle
- Cities deconstructed
- The palenque paradox: bush cities, bushmen, and the bush / Emmanuel Kreike
- "Paris et le désert français" : urban and rural enviromnemts in post-World War II France / Sara B. Pritchard.