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Introduction : food and the city / Dorothée Imbert -- Three acres and a cow? : small-scale agriculture as solution to urban impoverishment in Britain and Germany, 1880-1933 / David H. Haney -- Food for the body and the soul : Hebrew-Israeli urban foodscapes / Tal Alon-Mozes -- Consuming empire : colonial agriculture under Italian fascism / David Rifkind -- The country is the other city of tomorrow? : Le Corbusier's Ferme radieuse and Village Radieux / Mary McLeod -- The Landscape of the Dutch IJsselmeer Polders : Amsterdam and Its food supply system, 1930-69 / Zef Hemel -- From beets in the Bronx to chard in Chicago : the discourse and practice of growing food in the American city / Laura Lawson and Luke Drake -- Urban agriculture in cities of the global South : four logics of integration / Luc J. A. Mougeot -- Transforming a hostile environment : Japanese immigrant farmers in metropolitan California / Donna Graves -- How Tokyo invented sushi / Jordan Sand -- Urban agriculture in the Pearl River Delta / Margaret Crawford -- Paris is a land of plenty? : kitchen gardens as urban phenomenon in a modern-era European city (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries) / Florent Quellier -- Market gardens in Paris : a circulus intelligent circa 1790-1900 / Susan Taylor-Leduc -- Markets and the food landscape in France, 1940-72 / Meredith TenHoor

Climate, catastrophe, and culture in the ancient Americas / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter -- Paleoclimate from ice cores : a framework for archaeological interpretations / Paul Andrew Mayweski -- El Niño and interannual variability of climate in the Western Hemisphere / Kirk Allen Maasch -- Climate change, El Niño, and the rise of complex society on the Peruvian coast during the middle Holocene / James B. Richardson III and Daniel H. Sandweiss -- Catastrophe and the emergence of political complexity : a social anthropological model / Paul Roscoe -- Deciphering the politics of prehistoric El Niño events on the north coast of Peru / Brian R. Billman and Gary Huckleberry -- Deadly deluges in the southern desert : modern and ancient El Niños in the Osmore region of Peru / Michael E. Moseley and David K. Keefer -- Marching to disaster: the catastrophic convergence of Inca imperial policy, sand flies, and El Niño in the 1524 Andean epidemic / James B. Kiracofe and John S. Marr -- Armageddon to the Garden of Eden : explosive volcanic eruptions and societal resilience in ancient Middle America / Payson Sheets -- The collapse of Maya civilization : assessing the interaction of culture, climate, and environment / Jason Yaeger and David A. Hodell -- And the waters took them : catastrophic flooding and civilization on the Mexican Gulf Coast / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson

Bridging remote sensing and worldviews: urban landscapes from a preindustrial perspective / Georges Farhat -- PART I. EARTHWORKS: Space and structure in early Mesopotamian cities / Jason A. Ur -- Landscape change and ceremonial praxis in medieval Rome - from the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis / Hendrik W. Dey -- What constituted Cahokian urbanism? / Timothy R. Pauketat -- PART II. WATERSCAPES: Hydraulic landscapes of Roman and Byzantine cities / Jordan Pickett -- Monsoon landscapes and flexible provisioning in the preindustrial cities of the Indian subcontinent / Monica l. Smith -- The Phnom Kulen capital - a singular and early case of landscape construction in ancient Cambodia / Jean-Baptiste Chevance -- The weave of natural and cultural ecology - Ekamrakshetra, the historic temple town of Bhubaneswar, India / Priyaleen Singh -- PART III. FORESTRY: Xingu garden cities - Amazonian urban landscapes, or what? / Michael Heckenberger -- "when the king breaks a town he builds another" - politics, slavery, and constructed urban landscapes in tropical West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe.

"Building on emerging interests in the resilience of cities, this book and the symposium it represents considers river cities and city rivers to explore how histories have shaped the present, and how they might inform our visions of the future. Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city's success or cause its very destruction. At the same time city-building re-shapes rivers and their landscapes. Cities have harnessed, modified, and engineered rivers, altering ecologies and creating new landscapes in the process of urbanization. Rivers are as informed by the development of cities as urban landscapes as the cities are shaped by their relationship to the river. In the river city, the city river is a dynamic contributor to the urban landscape with its flow of urban economies, geographies, and cultures. Yet we have rarely given these urban landscapes their due. This collection of essays asks how river landscapes are shaped by and shape urban settlements, and in turn how their histories inform ideas of urban resilience and adaptability"--

"Important anthology marking, but not celebrating, the Columbian Quincentenary, directing attention to indigenous cultural responses to the Spanish intrusion in Mexico and Peru, utilizing as much as possible native documents and sources, and exploring mentalities. While we can benefit from the analysis and methodology in all contributions to this volume, items certain to interest Mesoamericanists include: Hill Boone, 'Introduction,' for the volume's orientation; Laiou, 'The Many Faces of Medieval Colonization,' for background, analysis of colonization as process, and its multiple forms; Lockhart, 'Three Experiences of Culture Contact: Nahua, Maya, and Quechua,' for special attention to language change as a reflection of broader cultural evolution in key areas; Hill Boone, 'Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico,' for an examination of the endurance of these forms in 16th-century Nahua culture; Wood, 'The Social vs. Legal Context of Nahuatl Títulos,' for an examination of community self-representation in native manuscripts and pictorials in the eighteenth century; Gillespie, 'The Triple Alliance: A Postconquest Tradition,' for an explanation of the colonial manipulation of the symbolic triadic organization for a new historical tradition; Burkhart, 'Pious Performances: Christian Pageantry and Native Identity in Early Colonial Mexico,' for a study of the Nahuas' reshaping of Christian ritual; Karttunen, 'Indigenous Writing as a Vehicle of Postconquest Continuity and Change in Mesoamerica,' for an examination of Nahua and Maya writing traditions into the present, including evidence of women's lesser but possibly significant role; and, Cummins, 'Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: Commentary,' for concluding reflections on the interrelated elements of text (written, performative, visual, auratic, and so on), image, discourse, language, traditions, identity, and colonialism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Introduction: Military landscapes between militarization and representation / Anatole Tchikine, with John Dean Davis -- Part I. Representation: Military landscapes - landscapes of events / Antoine Picon -- The ancient regional defense system in Fenghuang, China / Zhang Jie -- "Unified, nationwide, indestructible" - command, control, and the construction of the nuclear battlefield / Daniel Volmar -- Part II. Scales of nature: Displaced persons' gardens / Kenneth I. Helphand and Henk Wildschut -- The fortifications of Uncle Toby and other peaceful uses of military landscapes / John Dixon Hunt -- Transboundary natures - from the Iron Curtain to the Green Belt / Astrid M. Eckert -- Part III. Gender and race: The home front as a military landscape - imperial Russia, 1914-17 / Christine Ruane -- Olmsted in the South, Olmsted at war / John Dean Davis -- The concept of "defense landscape" (Wehrlandschaft) in National Socialist landscape planning / Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn -- Part IV. Infrastructure: The Wars of Religion and the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji -- An environmental history of the Ho Chi Minh trail / Pamela McElwee -- Part V. Memorialization: Jacques Callot's siege landscapes / Peter Parshall -- Military memory maneuvers in Dublin's Phoenix Park, 1775-1820 / Finola O'Kane -- Smashed to the earth - documenting, remembering, and returning to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack site / Patrick R. Jennings.