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Containing Contamination | Toxic Relationships
Chapter 2 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
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Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
The history of the Danube regulation in the Austrian Machland during the nineteenth century shows the enormous efforts made to transform a dynamic river landscape into a navigable waterway and a stable floodplain that supports the various human demands.
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Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities
Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia.
Multimedia | journal article
“Urbanists and the Environment Between Technique and Politics: The Case of Italy from the Sixties to the Present”
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
Multimedia | book profile
Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai
This book explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.
Multimedia | book excerpt
The Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.
Multimedia | film profile
The Land Beneath Our Feet
This film follows a young Liberian who returns to his post-war country with film footage which has the potential to push radical land reforms for sustainable community development.
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Disconnectivity in the Age of Globalization: Coastal Ecology, Telegraphy, and Empire in the Sunda Strait, 1863–1883
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
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Logistical Ecologies: A Singapore Story
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishment of Keppel Harbour would lay the foundations for Singapore to become a logistics city.
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The Water Shops of Republican Tianjin
The water shop was a crucial part of the traditional water supply system in imperial and early modern China.