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The nature of cities / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg.

Contributor(s): Isenberg, Andrew CSeries: Studies in comparative historyPublisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006Description: xix, 200 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 1580462200 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Cities and towns -- United States -- History | Urban ecology (Sociology) -- History | Urban health -- History | Venice (Italy) -- History | London (England) -- HistoryDDC classification: 307.7609 Online resources: Table of contents
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.
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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.

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