Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- 1. Environmental History, the Second World War, and Urban Resilience.- II. Urban Environment.- 2. Critical Networks.- 3. Fortress City: The Militarized Landscape of Seattle.- 4. War and Urban-Industrial Air Pollution in the UK and US.- 5. Imagined Resilience.- III. Urban Nature.- 6. Guerrilla Gardening? Urban Agriculture and the Environment.- 7. Gaining Strength from Nature.- 8. Resilience behind Bars.- 9. Where Have all the Pigeons Gone.- IV. Urban Society.- 10. Partial Resilience in Nationalist China's Wartime Capital.- 11. Japanese-Occupied Hanoi.- 12. The Esteros and Manila’s Postwar Remaking.- 13. Apocalyptic Urban Future.- V. Conclusions.- 14. Epilogue: What Makes a City Resilient?

About the Author

Simo Laakkonen is Senior Lecturer of Landscape Studies at the University of Turku, Finland.
J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, USA.
Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Environmental History at the University of Michigan, USA.
Timo Vuorisalo is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Science at the University of Turku, Finland.