Detropia
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
Efforts to naturalize trout in German Southwest Africa capture German ambitions within its first and only settler colony.
Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishment of Keppel Harbour would lay the foundations for Singapore to become a logistics city.
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield?
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.