History of the Urban Environment
New and Selected
Renewal, Regression, and Revival
Currents of Change in the Pittsburgh Environment
Nature’s Crossroads
The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota
Epidemics, Empire, and Environments
Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818–1910
Fordism and the City
How an Industry Shaped Urbanization in America
Paris After Haussmann
Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914
Motor City Green
A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit
Sanitizing Moscow
Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia
Grounding Berlin
Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present
The Lung Block
Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York
Urban Infrastructure
Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World
The History of the Urban Environment series features books that examine the historical impact of urbanization, showcasing the best scholarship within the field of urban environmental history, and presents issues that matter most to general readers interested in the environment.
Books in the series consider the history of the human-built environment from a broad range of perspectives—geographical, technological, ecological, cultural, and social—in both domestic and international contexts. It presents studies that highlight the environmental challenges faced by specific urban centers, as well as works that combine theoretical and practical approaches to important urban environmental topics.
Acquiring Editor: Amy Sherman
Series Editors
Martin V. MelosiUniversity of Houston
Martin V. Melosi is Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History, the Distinguished Service Award from the Urban History Association, and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. Melosi is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than one hundred articles and book chapters. He wrote the award-winning Fresh Kills: Consuming and Discarding in New York City, and more recently, Water in North American Environmental History. From 2000–2001 Melosi held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is past president of ASEH, UHA, the National Council on Public History, and the Public Works Historical Society.
Joel A. TarrCarnegie Mellon University
Joel A. Tarr is Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor Emeritus of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several prize-winning books, including Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America, coedited with Gabriel Dupuy; The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective; Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region; and The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the 19th Century, with coauthor Clay McShane. He has served as president of the Public Works Historical Society and the Urban History Association. He has also served on National Research Council committees dealing with issues of urban infrastructure, public transit, water pollution, and the human dimensions of global change.
Carl A. ZimringPratt Institute
Carl A. Zimring is professor of sustainability studies at Pratt Institute, where he founded the undergraduate sustainability studies program and the Center for Critical Discard Research. He is the author of several books, including Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America; Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States; Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective; and Technology and the Environment in History, with coauthor Sara B. Pritchard. His previous editing work includes the two-volume Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, coedited with William L. Rathje; and Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City, coedited with Steven H. Corey for this series.
