Resources of the City

Dieter Schott is a Professor at the History Department of Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Bill Luckin is a Research Professor in Urban History at Bolton Institute, UK. Dr Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud works at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France.

This volume explores many of the key environmental concerns and issues that are essential to understanding the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of issues, such as clean water supply, the provision/retention of green space, and noise pollution, that faced European and North American cities, the essays in this volume highlight the common responses as well as the differences that characterized the reactions to these trans-national concerns.

Contents: Resources of the City: towards a European urban environmental history, Dieter Schott; A metabolic approach to the city: 19th and 20th century Paris, Sabine Barles; Urban horses and Changing City-Hinterland Relationships in the United States, Joel A. Tarr and Clay McShane; 'Returning to nature': vacation and life style in the Montréal region, Michèle Dagenais; Citizens in Pursuit of Nature: Gardens, Allotments and Private Space in European cities, 1850-2000, Helen Meller; Sustainable Naples: the Disappearance of Nature as a Resource, Gabriella Corona; The struggle for urban space: Nantes and Clermont-Ferrand, 1830-1930, Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud; Sanitate Crescamus: Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Values in a Victorian suburb, Nicholas Goddard; Resource Management and Environmental Transformations. Water Incorporation at the Time of Industrialization: Milan, 1880-1940, Simone Neri Serneri; Constructing Urban Infrastructure for Multiple Resource Management: Sewerage Systems in the Industrialization of the Rhineland, Germany, Ulrich Koppitz; Towards the Socialist Sanitary City: Urban Water Problems in East German new towns, 1945-70, Christoph Bernhardt; Experts and water quality in Paris in 1870, Laurence Lestel; Noise Abatement and the Search for Quiet Space in the Modern City, Michael Toyka-Seid; Environmental Justice, History and the City: The United States and Britain, 1970-2000, Bill Luckin; 'In Stadt und Land': Differences and Convergences between Urban and Local Environmentalism in West Germany, 1950-80, Jens Ivo Engels; Path Dependence and Urban History: Is a Marriage Possible?, Martin V. Melosi; Index.