Common fields
Subtitle: an environmental history of St. Louis
By: edited by Andrew Hurley.
Contributors: Hurley, Andrew, 1961-
Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Description: In Common Fields, environmental historian Andrew Hurley has gathered thirteen original essays to tell a compelling story of one city's history. It is a story built on the never-ending tension between urban growth and environmental sustainability - a tension that defines the fate not just of St. Louis, but of cities around the world.

In these pages, geographers, archaeologists, and historians come together to consider the enduring ties between a city's diverse residents and the physical environment on which their well-being depends.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-310) and index.