@inbook{3443635ca1d946b7892f17b2eef56931,
title = "Cities and Suburbs",
keywords = "American cities - continuing to grow, different from mega-cities of the developing world, Cities and suburbs, Cities through nineteenth century - humanity's first cities, some millennia before Roman Empire, City blossoming - yielding novel avenues for {"}writing nature into human history{"}, Craig Colten's An Unnatural Metropolis (2006) - narrating ways that New Orleans' leaders sought to {"}wrest{"} the city from {"}nature{"}, Determinants of city's meaning across time and place - sheer size of urban populations in a given society, Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear (1999), cinematic disasters visited upon Los Angeles, Nature's Metropolis (1991) - early reference point, describing raw materials, Twentieth-century cities - city's seeming unnaturalness stemming from Progressive era, American",
author = "Chris Sellers",
year = "2010",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1002/9781444323610.ch24",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781405156653",
pages = "462--481",
booktitle = "A Companion to American Environmental History",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
}