What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanitys interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natural disaster". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature" as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Part I: Introduction Introduction: Did Cities Change Nature? A Long-Term
Perspective Part II: Nature into Urban Hinterlands
1. Long-Term Transitions,
Urban Imprint and the Construction of Hinterlands
2. Concepts of Urban Agency
and the Transformation of Urban Hinterlands: The Case of Berlin, Eighteenth
to Twentieth Centuries
3. A Place in Its Own Right: The Rural-Urban Fringe of
Helsinki from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Part III: Nature as
Urban Resource
4. Urbanizing Water: Looking Beyond the Transition to Water
Modernity in the Cities of the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to
Nineteenth Centuries
5. Cities Hiding the Forests: Wood Supply, Hinterlands
and Urban Agency in the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to Eighteenth
Centuries
6. Energizing European Cities: From Wood Provision to Solar Panels
Providing Energy for Urban Demand, 1800-2000
7. Re-Use and Recycling in
Western European Cities Part IV: Nature as Urban Challenge
8. Hydraulic
Experts and the Challenges of Water in Early Modern Times: European Colonial
Cities Compared
9. Stockholms Changing Waterscape: A Long-term Perspective
on a City and Its Flowing Water
10. Air Pollution as Urban Problem in France,
from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1970s Part V: Visions of Urban Nature
11. Urban Fringes: Conquering Riversides and Lakeshores in the Nineteenth
Century Examples from Austrian and Swiss Medium-Sized Cities
12. Twentieth
Century Wastescapes: Cities, Consumers, and Their Dumping Grounds
13. The
Roots of the Sustainable City: The Visible Waters of the City in Modern Mainz
and Wiesbaden Part VI: Concluding Essay
14. Beyond Cities, Beyond Nature:
Building a European Urban Stratum
Tim Soens is Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dieter Schott is Professor for Modern History at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Michael Toyka-Seid is research associate at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Bert De Munck is professor at the History Department of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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