
Globalizing Urban Environmental History
Matthew Vitz(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. November 2024
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92 pages
978-1-009-40035-0 (ISBN)
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'Globalizing Urban Environmental History' melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban environmental history. I argue that a global lens fixed on material, political, and cultural flows, movements, and connections-all of which were founded upon the structural integration of urban spaces through capitalist expansion and empire-sheds new light on the histories of specific urban political ecologies, on the one hand, and large-scale urban patterns on the other. These patterns comprise shared urban environmental imaginaries, strategies of environmental governance, and a global urban physical and cultural landscape stitched together by the adoption of fossil-fuel energies.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
148 gr
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978-1-009-40035-0 (9781009400350)
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Globalizing Urban Environmental History
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Content
Introduction; 1. Disease, power, and the city: global urban ecological formations in the age of empire; 2. Urban metabolisms and the rise of the global petroleumscape; Conclusion; References.