Urbanizing nature : actors and agency (dis)connecting cities and nature since 1500 / edited by Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid, and Bert De Munck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soens, Tim, editor.

Schott, Dieter, editor.

Toyka-Seid, Michael, editor.

Munck, Bert de, 1967- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Routledge advances in urban history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Europe--History.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Europe--History.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Europe--History.

Cities and towns.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

History.

Human ecology.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

Europe.

Human ecology--Europe--History.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Europe--History.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages).

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Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : did cities change nature? : a long-term perspective / Tim Soens, Dieter Schott, Michael Toyka-Seid and Bert De Munck

Long-term transitions, urban imprint and the construction of hinterlands / Sabine Barles and Martin Knoll

Concepts of urban sgency and the transformation of urban hinterlands : the case of Berlin, eighteenth to twentieth centuries / Christoph Bernhardt

A place in its own right : the rural-urban fringe of Helsinki from the early nineteenth century to the present / Marjaana Niemi

Urbanizing water : looking beyond the transition to water modernity in the cities of the southern Low Countries, thirteenth to nineteenth centuries / Ellen Janssens and Tim Soens

Cities hiding the forests : wood supply, hinterlands and urban agency in the southern Low Countries, thirteenth to eighteenth centuries / Paulo Charruadas and Chloé Deligne

Energizing European cities : from wood provision to solar panels : providing energy for urban demand, 1800-2000 / Dieter Schott

Re-use and recycling in Western European cities / Georg Stöger

Hydraulic experts and the challenges of water in early modern times : European colonial cities compared / Karel Davids

Stockholm's changing waterscape : a long-term perspective on a city and its flowing water / Eva Jakobsson

Air pollution as urban problem in France, from the mid-nineteenth ventury to the 1970s / Stéphane Frioux

Urban fringes : conquering riversides and lakeshores in the nineteenth century : examples from Austrian and Swiss medium-sized cities / Christian Rohr

Twentieth century wastescapes : cities, consumers, and their dumping grounds / Heike Weber

The roots of the sustainable city : the visible waters of the city in modern Mainz and Wiesbaden / Michael Toyka-Seid

Beyond cities, beyond nature : building a European urban stratum / Chris Otter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Urbanizing nature

ISBN:

9780429024726

042902472X

9780429658662

0429658664

9780429656224

042965622X

9780429653780

0429653786

Publisher Number:

99980747124

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