StadtAcker

StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Mayer, Johanna

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Johanna Mayer completed a master’s degree in theoretical and mathematical physics at LMU Munich. She is also a graduate from the Rachel Carson Center’s Environmental Certificate Program. After her master’s program, she has worked on a scientific publication at the chair for statistical and biological physics at LMU Munich. She recently started a new position as an intern for data science and research at the Green-Tech startup Planetly.

Pichl, Carolin

Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Carolin Pichl is currently completing the Rachel Carson Center´s Environmental Studies Certificate Program. She has already finished her master’s degree in management at TUM and holds a bachelor‘s degree in sports science from TUM. Her master thesis focused on the consequences of being perceived as a socially committed person in the application process.

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Werksviertel-Mitte

Werksviertel-Mitte: A Showcase for Nature in the Ostbahnhof Neighborhood? In the Werksviertel the urban future of Munich is being reinvented. The development of the former industrial district is based on a social vision: inclusion and bringing together diverse elements. The Werksviertel has a rich history, and the plans for the future are ambitious. Is it possible to find a successful balance between past and future, between city and nature?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Held, Helena

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Helena Held studies visual anthropology at LMU Munich and is always interested in the interface between anthropology and art. Therefore she presented her outcome of the research of her bachelor thesis in an exhibition. She made a film together with some fellow students about the wool production on the Shetland Islands and presented a short film at the Venice Bienniale. She studied at the Venice International University (VIU) and the University of Oslo (UiO), where she visited transdisciplinary courses and worked on environmental topics like food studies and ecofeminism.

Klünder, Vera

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

Vera Klünder studies public health at LMU Munich.

Reitz, Talitta

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Talitta Reitz is a graduate landscape architect and urbanist, and a certified heritage conservationist from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Originally from Brazil, she has a background in architecture and urbanism from Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, where she worked for architecture offices and local and federal institutions for heritage conservation. In 2016, she was the recipient of the ASLA “Student Design Merit Award,” and of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts “Design Excellence” Medal. Currently, she is an early stage researcher of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RECOMS Innovative Training Network and a PhD candidate of environmental humanities at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich.

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About the Exhibition

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?

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Kleemann, Katrin

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Katrin Kleemann is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center / LMU Munich in Germany, she studies environmental history and geology. Her doctoral project investigates the Icelandic Laki fissure eruption of 1783 and its impacts on the northern hemisphere. She holds a master’s degree in early modern history and a bachelor’s degree in history and cultural anthropology. Katrin receives a doctoral fellowship from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung. She also is the social media editor for the Climate History Network and HistoricalClimatology.com.

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“Imperilled Waterscapes: The Social-Ecological Transformation of Lakes in Bengaluru”

This paper examines the historical waterscapes of Bengaluru, now imperilled by development.

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The Search for George DeBaptiste’s House: The Crooked Creek Flood of 1846

by Christopher Baas and Darrin L. Rubino

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 15

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Suburbanization

This is Chapter 12 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on the role of passenger rail for the process of suburbanization.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

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Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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The National Park Line

This is Chapter 10 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on how railroads played a crucial role in establishing and popularizing US national parks such as Yellowstone.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

About the author

Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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Overland Excursions

This is Chapter 9 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on how the CB&Q promoted migration, settlement, and tourism into the western states and territories of America.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

About the author

Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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Western Tourism

This is Chapter 8 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on how the CB&Q became part of a transcontinental route.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

About the author

Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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Scenic Route Guides: “Something worth seeing every hour of the journey”

This is Chapter 6 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on the establishment of CB&Q’s Scenic Routes.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

About the author

Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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StadtAcker

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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Werksviertel-Mitte

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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Suburbanization

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

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The National Park Line

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

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Overland Excursions

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

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Western Tourism

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

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Scenic Route Guides: “Something worth seeing every hour of the journey”

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

About the author

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