Rivers running through : an urban environmental history of the Kansas Cities and the Missouri River

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amahia K. Mallea
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Environmental History

Asphalt kids and the matrix city: reminiscences of children's urban environmental history

Urban History ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMO LAAKKONEN
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Environmental History

ABSTRACT:Existing research in urban environmental history is often characterized by a narrow viewpoint or limited material reflecting the rationalist approach typical of white, middle-aged, middle-class and educated men. This orientation risks overlooking the viewpoint of the majority of urban dwellers: ordinary men, women, children, the elderly and different ethnic groups. The article focuses on the urban environmental history of children, because childhood forms the foundation for our relationship with nature. Environmental reminiscences offer fruitful material for the study of children's urban environmental history as well as children's contemporary relationships with the urban landscape. The article integrates aspects of urban history, environmental history and evolutionary psychology.

At a green crossroads: recent theses in urban environmental history in Europe and North America

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
STÉPHANE FRIOUX
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Environmental History ◽  
Water Plants

Since the path-breaking work of prominent North American historians such as Joel Tarr and Martin Melosi, as well as more recent roundtables in Europe, urban environmental history is now a mature research field, at the intersection of various related approaches. Time has passed since a leader of environmental history, William Cronon, could write that ‘cities in particular deserve much more work than they have received’. In this field, urban history necessarily crosses with environmental history, but also with the history of technology and social and cultural history; whilst its scholars not only emanate from a traditional historical background, but also from geography, science and engineering. Urban environmental historians, as they are referred to here, have duly established the importance of studying the relationships between ‘nature’ (including non-humans) and humans in and around cities. This ‘nature’ is a complex and shifting entity: recent doctoral studies have, for instance, documented rivers transformed by human action, weeds growing in the spatial and social margins of cities and tidal wetlands progressively filled in and built upon. The recently completed Ph.D.s reviewed in this essay see the built environment more as a hybrid of natural elements, like water, plants, animals and human action. Aided by the environmental lens, the scope of the urban historian has also been broadened by studying the ways in which residents’ lives were transformed by the invention, spread and environmental impact of new technologies, as well as the political responses to environmental crises.

scholarly journals “COLLECTION OF COMPULSORY RESOLUTIONS ISSUED BY CITIES AND ZEMSTVOS OF THE NOVGOROD PROVINCE” AS A SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF NORMING THE INTERACTION OF TOWNS INHABITANTS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-606
Author(s):  
A. B. Agafonova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Urban Pollution ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Sanitary Condition ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Environmental History ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The City

The problems of sanitary condition of the urban environment became the object of the policy of the city public administration as a result of the city reform of Alexander II. The city reform 1870 gave the rights to the City Dumas to publish the Compulsory Resolutions on issues of urban improvement and public health. These Resolutions were based on existing laws, but their content depended on the decisions of specific City Dumas. The existing Compulsory Resolutions could be supplemented with new ones over time and could be rewritten. In this context, of particular interest are the first attempts by local self-government bodies to legally regulate sanitary problems of the urban environment. The article is devoted to the analysis of the historical source “Collection of Compulsory Resolutions issued by cities and zemstvos of the Novgorod province” in terms of the information presented in it on the regulation of interaction between citizens and the components of the natural environment in the cities in the last third of XIX century. This historical source is valuable for researchers of urban environmental history, because it allows to identify the degree of urgency of local problems associated with urban pollution and disease for local self-government.

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