My Cities and Nature TBR

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With the increase in covid cases, the shorter days and the cooler weather, I've been spending even more time inside reading. So I'm not out there experiencing much many environments built or otherwise beyond my house, but I am reading about it. I thought it would be fun to share some of the books on my TBR that relate to nature and the built enviroment.

Making a Yellow River Delta: An Environmental Drama in Song Dynasty China by Ling Zhang

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design ed Jesse Keenan and Claire Weisz

Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City by Annette Miae Kim

Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation ed Dorothée Imbert

Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation by Sonia A. Hirt

The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology by Derek Wall

Trees in Paradise: A California History by Jared Farmer

The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China by Carla Nappi

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro by Zachary M. Schrag

Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles by Jared Orsi

Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice by Jennifer Wren Atkinson

Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees by Harley Rustad

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life by Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria Robinson

The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty by Xiaolin Duan

Unsurprisingly there's a lot of history books on the list. Given how slowly I read non-fiction it will probably take me a couple of years to get to all of these.

Have you read any of these? What did you think? Do you have any books on urban planning or the enviroment that you'd recommend?