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Land Subsidence and the Reservoirs of the Washburn Valley
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
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Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
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An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
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American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
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The Melting “Crown of the Continent”: Visual History of Glacier National Park
Detailing the converging human and geological histories of Glacier National Park, US, this article traces the demise of the park’s primary attraction, the glaciers.
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Memory and the Origins of the Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires
A constructed park’s history clashes with how citizens see and use that space.
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Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
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Resistance in the Midst of the Anthropocene: The Rise and Fall of Artificial Earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, 1962–1966
This article explores the materialization of the Anthropocene at the local level.
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Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
The blooming desert in a 1940s magazine ad showcases the idyllic landscapes and conspicuous absences in atomic bucolic imagery.
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From Nature to Infrastructure: Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki Archipelago
A centuries-old military island in the Helsinki archipelago is shaped by competing forces of abandonment and infrastructural development.