I BEGINNINGS
1. Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward
2. Aquaterrapolises: Swamp cities and marsh metropolises
II 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’
III NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND WETLANDS
9. New York: Set in ‘a mosquito-infested swamp’
10. Boston: and the Back Bay Fens
11. New Orleans: The swamp is no place for a city
12. 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 BEGINNINGS
15. Conclusion: The city as body, the earth as body and the body as
earth
References
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
A literary and cultural history of wetland cities across the world from America to Europe to Australia.
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.
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