urbanization

Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”

Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.

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.

Taylor seeks to describe the popular outdoor movement that he maintains has developed generically in both its ‘ideological evolution and its practical expression’ (16), from the earliest establishment of the Footpath Preservation Societies, through the Campaign for Access, and an Outdoor Movement on Wheels.

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…

Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.

How can the changing nature of the relationship between urban environments and rural hinterlands be better understood? Three prominent Canadian environmental history scholars critique the role of metropolitanism in environmental history research.