The nature of cities
By: edited by Andrew C. Isenberg.
Contributors: Isenberg, Andrew C.
Series: Studies in comparative history,; v. 8
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- History; Urban ecology -- History; Urban health -- History; Venice (Italy) -- History; London (England) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: new directions in urban environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg; title: Urban spaces, death, and the body; title: New Orleans's phantom xlave insurrection of 1853: racial anxiety, urban ecology, and human bodies as public spaces / Ari Kelman; title: Green space and class in imperial London / Peter Thorsheim; title: The war on rats verses the right to keep chickens: plague and the paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 / Joanna L. Dyl; title: Dead bodies in Harlem: environmental history and the geography of death / Ellen Stroud; title: The geography of power and consumption; title: Friend or flood? the dilemmas of water management in early modern Venice / Karl Appuhn; title: Banking on Sacramento: urban development, flood control, and political legitimization, 1848-1862 / Andrew C. Isenberg; title: Fair play: outdoor recreation and environmental inequality in twentieth-century Seattle / Matthew Klingle; title: Cities deconstructed; title: The palenque paradox: bush cities, bushmen, and the bus.