Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Dorothee Brantz Sonja Dümpelmann 1
Part I Constructing Green Urban Spaces
Integrating City and Nature: Urban Planning Debates in Sofia, Bulgaria Sonia Hirt 17
Green and Modem: Planning Mexico City, 1900-1940 Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera 37
Part II Nature and Urban Identity
Mediterranean Reflections: Reconstructing Nature in Modern Barcelona Gary McDonogh 57
German Ideologies of City and Nature: The Creation and Reception of Schiller Park in Berlin Stefanie Hennecke 75
Race, Recreation, and the Conflict between Public and Private Nature in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Lawrence Culver 95
Part III The Function of Nature in the City
Nature, Sport, and the European City: London and Helsinki, 1880-2005 Peter Clark Salla Jokela Jarmo Saarikivi 115
From the "Functional City" to the "Heart of the City": Green Space and Public Space in the CIAM Debates of 1942-1952 Konstanze Sylva Domhardt 133
Part IV Ecology and the Urban Environment
Property Rights, Popular Ecology, and Problems with Wild Plants in Twentieth-Century American Cities Zachary J. S. Falck 159
Building an "Urban Homestead": Survival, Self-Sufficiency, and Nature in Seattle, 1970-1980 Jeffrey Craig Sanders 181
The making of an Urban Ecology: Biological Expertise and Wildlife Preservation in West Berlin Jens Lachmund 204
Notes on Contributors 229
Index 233