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The nature of cities / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in comparative history 1539-4905
- Studies in comparative history, 1539-4905
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Urban health.
- History.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- United States.
- Venice (Italy)--History.
- Venice (Italy).
- London (England)--History.
- London (England).
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--History.
- Urban health--History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 200 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural environment in an array of urban places, including New York, London, New Orleans, Venice, San Francisco, and Seattle, across a broad period from the late Renaissance to the present.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1580462200
- 9781580462204
- OCLC:
- 60796137
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