Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North

Abstract

Introduction -- 1) Mikkel Høghøj and Mikkel Thelle: "Unravelling Urban Technonatures" -- Part I: Themes and concepts -- 2) Chris Otter: "Planetary Agglomeration" -- 3) Mikkel Thelle: "Phronologies of Urban Water: Copenhagen" -- 4) "Hybrid Cities: Agency, scale and power. A conversation between Matthew Gandy, Dorethee Brantz, Chris Otter and Mikkel Thelle" -- Part II: Agency of flow, matter and technology -- 5) Friedrich Hauer, Christina Spitzbart-Glasl, Severin Hohensinner and Verena Winiwarter: "A Techno-River in the Making: Three transformations of the Wien River from the Middle Ages until the present" -- 6) Sam Grinsell: "River Lines and Railway Lines: "Colonial military technonatures in the making of Sudan's capital region, 1880s-1920s" -- 7) Uwe Lübken: "Concrete History: Floodwalls on the Ohio River" -- Part III: Governing mobility, waste and urban subjects -- 8) Marjolein Schepers: "Closed Gates and Dart Streets: Spaces and infrastructures of transit in the Low Countries, eighteenth-nineteenth century" -- 9) Nina Toudal Jessen: "At the Intersection of Expertise and Landscaping: How technical advisors created new nature" -- 10) Mikkel Høghøj: "Good and Bad Nature: Slum clearance and metabolic poverty in mid-twentieth century Copenhagen".