Cities and wetlands : the return of the repressed in nature and culture From New Orleans to New York from London to Paris to Venice many of the worlds great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin Boston Chicago Hamburg London New Orleans New York Paris St. Petersburg Toronto Venice and Washington. Bloomsbury Publishing pt. 1. Beginnings pt. 2. European cities and wetlands pt. 3. North American cities and wetlands pt. 4. More beginnings