TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hou,Shen
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Wallless Cities: Cities and Nature in American History 
SN  - 9789819778270
AV  - E171-183.9 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Urban ecology (Biology)
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - US History
KW  - Urban History
KW  - Urban Ecology
KW  - Urban Sociology
N1  - 1. Introduction: Expanding Cities and Shrinking Continents -- Part I. City Writing -- 2. Rewrite the History of Cities in Nature -- Part II. Growing Cities -- 3. Crowded, Poisoned and Beautiful -- 4. A City upon a Hill -- Part III. Expanding Cities -- 5. City without Borders -- 6. City of Sea of Grass -- Part IV. Ideological Landscape of Cities -- 7. City, Wilderness and Intermediate Landscape -- 8. City by the Bay
N2  - This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of individuals. It provides a detailed examination of the development trends, achievements, and existing issues in this field, and a profound understanding of the urgency and necessity of nurturing new ideas to guide cities out of their "ecological paradox". It also summarizes the formation and development, challenges, and missions of American cities centered around the core image of the "City Without Walls". Shen Hou is Professor in the Department of History at Peking University, Beijing, China
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7827-0
ER  -