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Introduction 1. Joanna Dean, “‘Said Tree Is a Veritable Nuisance: Ottawa Street Trees 1869–1939,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine 39, no. 1 (fall 2005): 36–57; Joanna Dyl, “The War on Rats versus the Right to Keep Chickens: Plague and the Paving of San Francisco, 1907–1908,” in The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space, ed. Andrew C. Isenberg (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005), 38–61; Matthew Gandy, “The Paris Sewers and the Rationalization of Urban Space,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s., 24 (1999): 23–44; Matthew Gandy, “Rethinking Urban Metabolism: Water, Space, and the Modern City,” City 8, no. 3 (2004): 363–79; André Guillerme, Les temps de l’eau: la cité, l’eau et les techniques (Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 1983); Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw, “Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24, no. 1 (2000): 120–38; Ellen Stroud, “The Return of the Forest : Urbanization and Reforestation in the Northeastern United States” (PhD diss., Columbia University, 2001). In their introduction to the environmental history of Los Angeles, William Deverell and Greg Hise use the term “metropolitan nature” to mean “the study of how people transform nature in particular sites and of how what is created in particular locales is generative for local and broader culture.” Deverell and Hise, eds., “Introduction,” Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), 4. Previous to that, Matthew Gandy used the expression “metropolitan nature” to refer to “the multiple meanings of modern setting” in the ultimate urban setting, New York City. Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001). 2. Chloé Deligne, Bruxelles et sa rivière: genèse d’un territoire urbain (12e–18e siècle) (Turnhout , Belgium: Brepols, 2003); Ari Kelman, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003); Fridolin Kraussmann, “Land Use Notes 272 - Notes to Pages 1-10 and Industrial Modernization: An Empirical Analysis of Human Influence on the Functioning of Ecosystems in Austria, 1830–1995,” Land Use Policy 18, no. 1 (2001): 17–26; Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). 3. William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York: Norton, 1996). 4. For an overview of Montreal’s history, see Paul-André Linteau, Brève histoire de Montr éal, 2nd ed. (Montreal: Boréal, 2007); and Jean-Claude Robert, Atlas historique de Montréal (Montreal: Libre Expression/Art global, 1994). 5. Paul-André Linteau, Histoire de Montréal depuis la Confédération (Montreal: Boréal, 1992), 148. 6. Jean-Pierre Collin, “La cité sur mesure: spécialisation sociale de l’espace et autonomie municipale dans la banlieue montréalaise, 1875–1920,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine 13, no. 1 (June 1984): 19–34. 7. Linteau, Histoire de Montréal depuis la Confédération, 202–3. 8. At the beginning of the 1960s, Montreal succeeded in annexing four additional suburbs, but this second wave of expansion did not last very long. Linteau, Histoire de Montréal depuis la Confédération, 499. 9. See, for instance, the famous report of the reformer Sir H. B. Ames, The City below the Hill: A Sociological Study of a Portion of the City of Montreal, Canada (Montreal: Bishop Engraving and Printing, 1897). See also Terry Copp, The Anatomy of Poverty: The Condition of the Working Class in Montreal, 1897–1929 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974). 10. Jean-Pierre Collin and Michèle Dagenais, “Évolution des enjeux politiques locaux et des pratiques municipales dans l’île de Montréal, 1840–1950,” in Enjeux et expressions de la politique municipale (XIIe–XXe siècles), ed. Denis Menjot and Jean-Luc Pinol (Paris: L’Harmattan , 1997), 191–221. 11. Linteau, Brève histoire de Montréal, chap. 12. 12. Jean-Pierre Collin, “Montréal, Depictions of a Mid-size Metropolis,” Canadian Journal of Urban Research/Revue canadienne de recherche urbaine 12, no. 1 (summer 2003): 1–15. 13. Jean-Pierre Collin and Jacques Léveillée, “Municipal Organization in Canada: Tradition and Transformation, Varying from Province to Province,” Villes Régions Monde and ICPS-CIL, 2003, 29. 14. Growth continued later, as from 1971 to 1981 this territory grew by 133 square kilometers (51 square...

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