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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Rochester Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xix, 200 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cities and towns--United States--History.
Venice (Italy)--History.
London (England)--History.
Urban ecology (Sociology)--History.
Urban health--History.

Other Authors:

Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 versus 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 d©♭sert fran©ʹais" : urban and rural environments in post-World War II France / Sara B. Pritchard.

Series:

Studies in comparative history

ISBN:

9781580462204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1580462200 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60796137

LCCN:

2005018083

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)