Introduction: new directions in urban environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg
Urban spaces, death, and the body
New Orleans's phantom slave insurrection of 1853: racial anxiety, urban ecology, and human bodies as public spaces / Ari Kelman
Green space and class in imperial London / Peter Thorsheim
The war on rats verses the right to keep chickens: plague and the paving of San Francisco, 1907-1908 / Joanna L. Dyl
Dead bodies in Harlem: environmental history and the geography of death / Ellen Stroud
The geography of power and consumption
Friend or flood? the dilemmas of water management in early modern Venice / Karl Appuhn
Banking on Sacramento: urban development, flood control, and political legitimization, 1848-1862 / Andrew C. Isenberg
Fair play: outdoor recreation and environmental inequality in twentieth-century Seattle / Matthew Klingle
The palenque paradox: bush cities, bushmen, and the bush / Emmanuel Kreike
"Paris et le désert français" : urban and rural enviromnemts in post-World War II France / Sara B. Pritchard.
