Animal Cities provides a useful extension of geographical scholarship on animals in the urban context. This book is a welcomeaddition to geography's many branches, not only historical, animal, and urban, but also the geography of political economy and political ecology. As the book's title indicates, these essays examine aspects of animals' roles in the historical development of several cities, primarily nineteenth-century London and Paris, but also Edinburgh and the Australian cities of Perth and Melbourne, and with empirical reference to New York and Chicago.
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