• Introduction: New Directions in Urban Environmental History - Andrew C. IsenbergPart 1: Urban Spaces, Death, and the BodyNew Orleans's Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces - Ari KelmanGreen Space and Class in Imperial London - Peter ThorsheimThe War on Rats vs. The Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 - Joanna L. DylDead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death - Ellen StroudPart II: The Geography of Power and ConsumptionFriend or Flood? The Dilemmas of Water Management in Early Modern Venice - Karl AppuhnBanking on Sacramento: Urban Development, Flood Control, and Political Legitimization, 1848-1862 - Andrew C. IsenbergFair Play: Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Inequality in Twentieth-Century Seattle - Matthew KlinglePart III: Cities DeconstructedThe Palenque Paradox: Bush Cities, Bushmen, and the Bush - Emmanuel Kreike"Paris et le désert français": Urban and Rural Environments in Post-World War II France - Sara Pritchard

The Nature of Cities demonstrates how environmental historians can better communicate their ideas to historians in other fields, suggests how social and cultural historians can interpret the past if they strive to integrate the insights of environmental historians, and indicates what environmental historians can produce by synthesizing a wide variety of scholarly literature.

• Introduction: New Directions in Urban Environmental History - Andrew C. IsenbergPart 1: Urban Spaces, Death, and the BodyNew Orleans's Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces - Ari KelmanGreen Space and Class in Imperial London - Peter ThorsheimThe War on Rats vs. The Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 - Joanna L. DylDead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death - Ellen StroudPart II: The Geography of Power and ConsumptionFriend or Flood? The Dilemmas of Water Management in Early Modern Venice - Karl AppuhnBanking on Sacramento: Urban Development, Flood Control, and Political Legitimization, 1848-1862 - Andrew C. IsenbergFair Play: Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Inequality in Twentieth-Century Seattle - Matthew KlinglePart III: Cities DeconstructedThe Palenque Paradox: Bush Cities, Bushmen, and the Bush - Emmanuel Kreike"Paris et le désert français": Urban and Rural Environments in Post-World War II France - Sara Pritchard

The Nature of Cities demonstrates how environmental historians can better communicate their ideas to historians in other fields, suggests how social and cultural historians can interpret the past if they strive to integrate the insights of environmental historians, and indicates what environmental historians can produce by synthesizing a wide variety of scholarly literature.

• Introduction: New Directions in Urban Environmental History - Andrew C. IsenbergPart 1: Urban Spaces, Death, and the BodyNew Orleans's Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces - Ari KelmanGreen Space and Class in Imperial London - Peter ThorsheimThe War on Rats vs. The Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 - Joanna L. DylDead Bodies in Harlem: Environmental History and the Geography of Death - Ellen StroudPart II: The Geography of Power and ConsumptionFriend or Flood? The Dilemmas of Water Management in Early Modern Venice - Karl AppuhnBanking on Sacramento: Urban Development, Flood Control, and Political Legitimization, 1848-1862 - Andrew C. IsenbergFair Play: Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Inequality in Twentieth-Century Seattle - Matthew KlinglePart III: Cities DeconstructedThe Palenque Paradox: Bush Cities, Bushmen, and the Bush - Emmanuel Kreike"Paris et le désert français": Urban and Rural Environments in Post-World War II France - Sara Pritchard

The Nature of Cities demonstrates how environmental historians can better communicate their ideas to historians in other fields, suggests how social and cultural historians can interpret the past if they strive to integrate the insights of environmental historians, and indicates what environmental historians can produce by synthesizing a wide variety of scholarly literature.