Description
Globalizing Urban Environmental History examines the evolution of urban environmental history as a field and its growing engagement with global perspectives. Matthew Vitz argues that understanding cities requires attention to how local environmental histories are connected through transnational networks of trade, migration, knowledge exchange, and environmental flows.
The volume traces how urbanization has fundamentally altered ecosystems worldwide while being constrained and shaped by environmental conditions. Vitz explores key themes including the role of imperial networks in spreading urban environmental practices, the circulation of technologies and expertise across cities, and how environmental crises have connected distant urban centers.
By synthesizing scholarship from multiple regions and disciplines, this Element demonstrates that urban environmental history cannot be understood through isolated case studies alone. Instead, it requires frameworks that capture the complex interdependencies between cities and their global entanglements with resources, ideas, and ecological consequences.
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