Globalizing Urban Environmental History

'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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

This Element, 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.

Foreword

This Element provides the history of the formation of urban environments via the adoption of fossil fuels and environmental governance.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Vitz, Matthew (University of California Vitz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781009475778
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947577-8
• No. of pages: 92
• Series: Elements in Global Urban History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, Urban & municipal planning, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Natural disasters, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Settlement, urban and rural geography, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Sanitary and municipal engineering, Sanitary & municipal engineering