William Cronon, Nature'sMetropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991).
2.
See for example Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Danger (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998); R. Bruce Stephenson, Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building: St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900—1995 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997). An insightful survey of this growing field is Joel A. Tarr, “Urban History and Environmental History in the United States: Complementary and Overlapping Fields,” in Environmental Problems in European Cities of the 19th and 20th Century, ed. Christoph Bernhardt (Münster; New York : Waxmann, 2001), 25-39.
3.
See especially Catherine Cocks, Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850—1915 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001); Alison Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004); Angela M. Blake, How New York Became American, 1890—1924 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); J. Mark Souther, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City ( Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006).
4.
A good discussion of the relationship of “path dependence” with sanitary technologies appears in Martin V. Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure from Colonial Times to the Present ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10-12.
5.
Alecia P. Long, The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865—1920 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004); Souther, New Orleans on Parade.
6.
A richly illustrated, intensively documented geographical study of New Orleans is found in Richard Campanella, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006).
