Garbage in the Cities

Martin Melosi

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a t... Lees meer

Refining Nature

Jonathan Wlasiuk

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during th... Lees meer

City on Fire

Anna Rose Alexander

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk ... Lees meer

A Negotiated Landscape

Jasper Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millenn... Lees meer

Epidemics, Empire, and Environments

Michael Zeheter

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms... Lees meer

London

John Broich

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons d... Lees meer

City of Lake and Prairie

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet--City of Lake and Prairie--with this compelling, inn... Lees meer

Rivers in History

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed th... Lees meer

Urban Infrastructure

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to th... Lees meer

River City and Valley Life

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. I... Lees meer

Metropolitan Natures

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center ... Lees meer

The Age of Smoke

Frank Uekötter

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr V... Lees meer

Effluent America

Martin Melosi

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews an... Lees meer

A Mighty Capital Under Threat

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the "new Rome," first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-... Lees meer

Weeds

Zachary Falck

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• As long as humans have existed, theyÆve worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse s... Lees meer

The Lung Block

Adrienne Denoyelles

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• Public health, housing, poverty, and immigration dominated social and political discourse in early twentieth-century New York, much as they do today. ... Lees meer

The City Natural

Shen Hou

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that wo... Lees meer

Devastation and Renewal

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment
• Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three stron... Lees meer

The Sanitary City

Martin Melosi

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them w... Lees meer

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained

• Hardcover | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfront... Lees meer

Land of Sunshine

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But... Lees meer

Urban Rivers

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected ur... Lees meer

Weeds

Zachary Falck

• Hardcover | History of the Urban Environment
• A comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the presen... Lees meer

Precious Commodity

Martin Melosi

• Paperback | Engels | History of the Urban Environment | nr. 66
• As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object ... Lees meer