"Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside"
Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.
Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.
The pioneer urban and environmental planner, Patrick Geddes, and his American disciple, Lewis Mumford, dismissed the monumental art museum as an outsized emblem of the garrison state, corporate consolidation, and imperial ambition…
Urban environmental history comprises both human and ecological experience; the two were and are inseparable, and their interaction is dynamic. This essay explores the human and bioregional history of the Penrith Lakes Scheme at Castlereagh in outer Western Sydney as a case study in integrating the two approaches.
Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.
Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.