Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Urban nature : an introduction / Char Miller
  • San Antonio : an environmental crossroads on the Texas spring line / James F. Petersen
  • "A fine country with broad plains--the most beautiful in New Spain" : colonial views of land and nature / Jésus F. de la Teja
  • Where the buffalo roamed : ranching, agriculture, and the urban marketplace / Char Miller
  • Parks, politics, and patronage / Char Miller and Heywood Sanders
  • The landscape of death : homicide as a health problem / David R. Johnson, Derral Cheatwood, and Benjamin Bradshaw
  • Battlefields : the military and the environment / Stephanie J. Shaw and Craig E. Colten
  • Empty taps, missing pipes : water policy and politics / Heywood Sanders
  • Establishing "sole source" protection : the Edwards aquifer and the Safe Drinking Water Act / Laura A. Wimberley
  • Sitting down at the table : mediation and resolution of water conflicts / John M. Donahue and Jon Q. Sanders
  • The preservation of San Antonio's built environment / Lewis F. Fisher
  • Elusive balance : landscape, architecture, and the social matrix / John Hutton
  • City limits : an afterword / Char Miller.