Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagining Urban Ecology
Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe
Chapter 1: Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather: Power, Environmental Perception, and Materiality in the Lenape-European Encounter at Philadelphia
Michael Dean Mackintosh
Chapter 2: “Processes of Nature and Art”: The Ecology of Charles Willson Peale’s Smoke-Eaters and Stoves
Laura Turner Igoe
Chapter 3: Mapping The Quaker City’s Queer Ecology
Mary I. Unger
Chapter 4: Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park: Economic Diversity, History, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Nate Gabriel
Chapter 5: Netted Together: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion at the Dawn of Comparative Biology
John Ott
Chapter 6: Expansive Exhibitions: Agriculture and Environment in Walt Whitman’s Camden-Philadelphia Region
Maria Farland
Chapter 7: “Our yard looks something like a zoological garden”: Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and Domestic Animality
Alan C. Braddock
Chapter 8: “A Thorough Study of Causes”: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, and Progressive Era Materiality
Scott Hicks
Chapter 9: Exhibiting Philadelphia’s Vital Center: Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning Vision
Amy E. Menzer
Chapter 10: “Entertainment for all of the senses”: Stephen Starr’s Experience Dining and the Revitalization of Postindustrial Philadelphia
Stephen Nepa
Chapter 11: “The water flows beneath it still. . .”: Remembering and Re-imagining Philadelphia’s Old Dock Creek
Sue Ann Prince
Chapter 12: Remapping Philadelphia’s Post-Industrial Terrain: A Network in Flux
Andrea Hansen
Notes
Index