Urbanising nature. Why the Grounded Cities of the middle ages matter for the modern environmental history of the city

Autor/innen-Biografie

• Tim Soens, Universität Antwerpen
  Tim Soens, Prof. Dr., is professor of Environmental History at the Centre for Urban History of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research concentrates on the history of natural hazards, the urbanisation of nature and urban agriculture. Most recent publications: T. Soens et al. (Eds.), Urbanizing nature. Actors and agency (dis)connecting cities and nature since 1500, New York 2019; T. Soens et al. (Eds.), Disasters and history. The vulnerability and re-silience of past societies, Cambridge 2020; T. Soens/E. Landsteiner (Eds.), Farming the city. The resilience and decline of urban agriculture in European his-tory, Innsbruck 2019.