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[email protected]. Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental History are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Environmental History Review. http://www.jstor.org The Place of the City in Environmental History Martin V. Melosi University of Houston In the last fifteen years or so, the study of urban environmental history has led to an outpouring of valuable research. Many books and articles have appeared on topics such as building technology, public works and infrastructure,environmental services, parks and greenspace,pollution and public health,energy, environmentalreform and regulation, and municipal engineering. The volume of work is gratifying and adds considerably to pioneering researchdating back to the 1960s,including Lewis Mumford'ssweeping TheCity in History (New York, 1961), Sam Bass Warner,Jr.'s classic case study Streetcar Suburbs(Cambridge, MA, 1962), Carl Condit's AmericanBuilding Art 2v. (Chicago, 1960, 1961), Nelson Blake's seminal Waterfor the Cities (Syracuse, 1956), geographer Allan R. Pred's The SpatialDynamics of U.S. Urban-IndustrialGrowth (Cambridge, MA, 1966), John W.