Environmental justice in the city a theme for urban environmental history

Environmental History

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 162-164

  Flanagan, Maureen A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749149882     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/envhis/5.2.159     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. "Themes and Issues in North American Environmental History," April 24-26, 1998, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2. Donald Worster, "Transformations of the Earth: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in History," Journual of American History, "A Round Table: Environmental History,"(March 1990): 1087-1106 and Worster, "Seeing Beyond Culture," in Ibid., 1147.
3. Rosen and Tarr, Journal of Urban History(May 1994): 307. Although many environmental historians accept that the built environment is part of their field, they generally apprehend the place of cities in environmental studies as limited to one static point in time, either at the point of first settlement to see how humans disturbed nature or at a particular moment of economic growth to understand its impact on the urban landscape.
4. See Nancy-Quam-Wickham, "'Cities Sacrificed on the Altar of Oil': Popular Opposition to Oil Development in 19205 Los Angeles," Environmental History (April 1998): 189-209, especially her statement that "As a central element in the economic transformation of southern California, the oil industry forever changed the region's landscape" (189).
5. A similar economic orientation appears in Raymond Dominick, "Capitalism, Communism and Environmental Protection: Lessons from the German Experience," in Ibid. (July 1998): 311-32. For further consideration of the reluctance of environmental historians to examine the built urban environment equally with the natural,
6. see Jonathan Keyes, "A Place of Its Own: Urban Environmental History," review essay in Journal of Urban History (March 2000): 380-90.
7. For examples, see Léon Homo, Rome impériale et l'urbanisme dans l'antiquité (Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1971), 37-43; Blanche Linden-Ward, Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), chapters one and three especially describe medieval and early modern examples of burial needs; Enrico Guidoni, La Città dal Medioevo al Rinascimento (Roma, 1989); and Charles M. Radding and William W. Clark, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Learning: Builders and Masters in the Age of Romanesque and Gothic (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992).
8. Stephen J. Pyne, "Firestick History," Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (March 1990): 1139.
9. See Anne Whiston Spirn, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
10. Such an approach as we suggest here begins from a different angle than the one used by Susan Flader, "Citizenry and the State in the Shaping of Environmental Policy," Environmental History 3 (January 1998): 8-24, but it does heed her call for environmental historians to investigate the role that citizens have played in demanding that the state develop environmental policies.
11. Merchant, "Gender and Environmental History," Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (March 1990): 1120.
12. See, Anna Nicholes, "How Women Can Help in the Administration of a City," The Woman's Citizen Library 9 (New York, 1913), 2184; and Chicago Record-Herald, October 1908.
13. See also Maureen A. Flanagan, "The City Profitable, the City Livable: Environmental Policy, Gender, and Power in Chicago in the 19105," Journal of Urban History' (January 1996): 163-90.
14. Worster, "Seeing Beyond Culture."
15. William Cronon, "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (March 1992): 1376.