Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

ISBN-13: 9780367662509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str.

Tim Soens; Dieter Schott; Michael Toyka-Seid

Opis

The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource or commodity and mobilized over long distances. Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature", unravelling actors and processes urbanizing nature from 1500 till today.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction  Introduction: Did Cities Change Nature? A Long-Term Perspective  Part II: Nature into Urban Hinterlands  1. Long-Term Transitions, Urban Imprint and the Construction of Hinterlands  2. Concepts of Urban Agency and the Transformation of Urban Hinterlands: The Case of Berlin, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries  3. A Place in Its Own Right: The Rural-Urban Fringe of Helsinki from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present  Part III: Nature as Urban Resource  4. Urbanizing Water: Looking Beyond the Transition to Water Modernity in the Cities of the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries  5. Cities Hiding the Forests: Wood Supply, Hinterlands and Urban Agency in the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries  6. Energizing European Cities: From Wood Provision to Solar Panels – Providing Energy for Urban Demand, 1800-2000  7. Re-Use and Recycling in Western European Cities  Part IV: Nature as Urban Challenge  8. Hydraulic Experts and the Challenges of Water in Early Modern Times: European Colonial Cities Compared  9. Stockholm’s Changing Waterscape: A Long-term Perspective on a City and Its Flowing Water  10. Air Pollution as Urban Problem in France, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1970s  Part V: Visions of Urban Nature  11. Urban Fringes: Conquering Riversides and Lakeshores in the Nineteenth Century – Examples from Austrian and Swiss Medium-Sized Cities  12. Twentieth Century Wastescapes: Cities, Consumers, and Their Dumping Grounds  13. The Roots of the Sustainable City: The Visible Waters of the City in Modern Mainz and Wiesbaden  Part VI: Concluding Essay  14. Beyond Cities, Beyond Nature: Building a European Urban Stratum

O autorze

Tim Soens is Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Dieter Schott is Professor for Modern History at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Michael Toyka-Seid is research associate at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Bert De Munck is professor at the History Department of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.