Cities and Wetlands

Rod Giblett has published many studies of environmental cultures. He is currently researching and writing a book called Modern Melbourne: CIty and Site of Nature and Culture.

• I BEGINNINGS1. Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward2. Aquaterrapolises: Swamp cities and marsh metropolisesII EUROPEAN CITIES AND WETLANDS3. 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’ III NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND WETLANDS9. New York: Set in ‘a mosquito-infested swamp’10. Boston: and the Back Bay Fens11. New Orleans: The swamp is no place for a city12. 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’IV MORE BEGINNINGS15. Conclusion: The city as body, the earth as body and the body as earthReferencesNotesAcknowledgementsIndex