دانلود کتاب Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture

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Cover
Half Title
Environmental Cultures Series
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Copyright
Contents
Part 1 Beginnings
1 Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward
2 Aquaterrapolises: Swamp Cities and Marsh Metropolises
Part 2 European Cities and Wetlands
3 Paris: Or, Lutetia, “The Filthy Marsh”
Lutetia
Haussmann: Boulevard blaster, modernity bludgeoner
Paris, or Lutetia, as woman, as goddess, as Great Mother, and as dialectical image
Tours of the sewers
4 London: The “Nether World” of “the City of Dreadful Night”
Nether world
City conditions
London on London
Slums
Crystal Palace
5 Venice: “A Tropical Marshland, Steaming, Monstrous, Rank”
6 Berlin: “A Dingy City in a Marsh”
7 Hamburg: “This Marshy, Watery City”
8 St. Petersburg: “Marooned on the Neva’s Marsh Delta”
The Bronze Horseman
Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg
Bely’s Petersburg
Part 3 North American Cities and Wetlands
9 New York: A City Set in “a Mosquito-​Infested Swamp”
10 Boston: “Tidal Flats and Marshes Once Surrounded the City”
11 New Orleans: “The Swamp is No Place for a City”
12 Toronto: “Set in Malarial Lakeside Swamps”
13 Washington: “A Discouraging Site Bordered by a Swamp”
14 Chicago: “Built in the Midst of a Great Level Swamp”
Sinclair’s Chicago
Brecht’s Chicago
Olmsted’s Chicago
Part 4 More Beginnings
15 Conclusion: The City as Body, the Earth as Body, and the Body as Earth
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index