Arcadia
Mumbai’s Doongerwadi Forest: Revisiting the Death of Nature in the Future City
This article explores the past and future of one of Mumbai’s largest city forests.
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A Walk Through the Ruins (India) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Vikas Lakhani’s 360° video takes the viewer on a walk through the villages of Vondh and Adhoi, in the Kutch region of Gujarat that was devastated by a 7.7 Mw earthquake on 26 January 2001. It explores the traditional housing the meaning of development in the region where the ruins of these villages stand as memorials and symbols of failed government relocation policies.
Arcadia
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.
Multimedia | podcast
Crosscurrents episode 7: Anthony Heyes
Have you ever wondered what big data baseball has to do with air pollution? In Episode 7 of Crosscurrents, host John Sandlos speaks with Dr. Anthony Heyes, an environmental economist researching the impact of urban air pollution.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Archive and the Lake: Labor, Toxicity, and the Making of Cosmopolitical Commons in Rome, Italy"
Miriam Tola explores the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry at the site of the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa from the 1920s to the 1950s, and how this affected human and nonhuman bodies.
Perspectives
The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
Arcadia
A Killer Air: Delineating Disaster in Mexico City
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.
Exhibition chapter
Introduction: “Quite a chapter in the history of the West” | CB&Q Railroad
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad played an important role in the transformation of settlement, agriculture, commerce, and recreation in North America. This is the introductory chapter of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson.
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“The sun will be requested to rise and set by railroad time” | CB&Q Railroad
This is Chapter 1 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. It includes the story of how the Standard Time System was adopted in the US.
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US Government Land Grants: “A pleasure to break the wild prairie” | CB&Q Railroad
This is Chapter 2 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter discusses the impact of US land grants for railroad and settlement development especially in the states of Missouri and Nebraska.