Dieter Schott is a Professor at the History Department of Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Bill Luckin is a Research Professor in Urban History at Bolton Institute, UK. Dr Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud works at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Contents: Resources of the City: towards a European urban environmental history, Dieter Schott; A metabolic approach to the city: 19th and 20th century Paris, Sabine Barles; Urban horses and Changing City-Hinterland Relationships in the United States, Joel A. Tarr and Clay McShane; 'Returning to nature': vacation and life style in the Montréal region, Michèle Dagenais; Citizens in Pursuit of Nature: Gardens, Allotments and Private Space in European cities, 1850-2000, Helen Meller; Sustainable Naples: the Disappearance of Nature as a Resource, Gabriella Corona; The struggle for urban space: Nantes and Clermont-Ferrand, 1830-1930, Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud; Sanitate Crescamus: Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Values in a Victorian suburb, Nicholas Goddard; Resource Management and Environmental Transformations. Water Incorporation at the Time of Industrialization: Milan, 1880-1940, Simone Neri Serneri; Constructing Urban Infrastructure for Multiple Resource Management: Sewerage Systems in the Industrialization of the Rhineland, Germany, Ulrich Koppitz; Towards the Socialist Sanitary City: Urban Water Problems in East German new towns, 1945-70, Christoph Bernhardt; Experts and water quality in Paris in 1870, Laurence Lestel; Noise Abatement and the Search for Quiet Space in the Modern City, Michael Toyka-Seid; Environmental Justice, History and the City: The United States and Britain, 1970-2000, Bill Luckin; 'In Stadt und Land': Differences and Convergences between Urban and Local Environmentalism in West Germany, 1950-80, Jens Ivo Engels; Path Dependence and Urban History: Is a Marriage Possible?, Martin V. Melosi; Index.