| Description |
1 online resource. |
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Environmental cultures series |
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Environmental cultures series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Dedication -- 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" -- 4 London: The "Nether World" of "the City of Dreadful Night" -- 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" -- Part 3 North American Cities and Wetlands |
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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: A City "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" -- Part 4 More Beginnings -- 15 Conclusion: The City as Body, the Earth as Body, and the Body as Earth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Copyright |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Wetland restoration.
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Wetland management.
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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Literary theory.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Environmentalist thought & ideology.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Urban ecology (Biology) (OCoLC)fst01162404
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Wetland management. (OCoLC)fst01174175
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Wetland restoration. (OCoLC)fst01174192
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Giblett, Rodney James. Cities and wetlands. London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781474269827 1474269826 |
| ISBN |
9781474269834 (electronic book) |
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1474269834 (electronic book) |
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9781474269841 (electronic book) |
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1474269842 (electronic book) |
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9781474269827 |
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1474269826 |
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