The roundtable centers on three broad questions. We hope this work might not only highlight new avenues of research but also frame how historians engage with public scholarship to offer counternarratives that build on the thick intersections of what we imagine as built and unbuilt, city and nature. With this JSAH roundtable, we seek to promote within the community of historians a more complex understanding of how scholars conceptualize cities and nature-most specifically, in the context of questions of democracy, race, and identity-and to expand opportunities for collaborative thinking across the humanities and sciences.

The shift we are now witnessing in the framing of humanities scholarship on cities and nature offers a vital opportunity for historians of built environments to develop a broader and more inclusive approach to the ways that we teach and study architectural, landscape, and urban histories as well as urban and environmental studies. Roberts, and Lauret Savoy have made critical contributions to the discourse by examining how ideas of race, nature, and the built environment intersect in complex, ambiguous, and often concealed ways. Most recently, historians such as Carolyn Finney, Dorceta Taylor, Alaina E. Just as the seminal work of urban historians such as William Cronon and Ari Kelman and the studies of environmental humanists such as Ursula Heise and Allison Carruth have advanced our understanding of the integration of the built and natural worlds, a range of pathbreaking scholarship-for example, Linda Nash on histories of disease and the environment, Laura Pulido on race and architecture, Matthew Gandy on urban waters, and Kim Stanley Robinson on the imagined cities of science fiction-draws new attention to the symbiotic relationship between cities and nature while also broadening and transforming our understanding of these categories.

And yet such a divide persists, despite the fact that in the past three decades humanities scholars working with social and natural scientists have challenged these assumptions by investigating the complex interactions and intersections of cultural and natural systems, and by exploring how cities and nature are inextricably woven together into what has come to be called the urban landscape. In 2022 it would seem a shame to need to argue that an enduring intellectual and perceptual rift divides the city from the natural world, both in scholarship and in the public imagination. Taylor, Helena Vilela Santos, and Alexander Wood, seeks to promote a more complex understanding of how scholars conceptualize cities and nature while expanding opportunities for collaborative thinking across the humanities and sciences. Cunningham, Liyang Ding, Matthew Gandy, Labib Hossain, Sara Jacobs, Mingqian Liu, Robert Z.

The roundtable Rethinking the Urban Landscape, featuring contributions by James Michael Buckley, Theresa A. The shift that we are now witnessing in the framing of humanities scholarship on cities and nature offers a vital opportunity for us to develop a broader and more inclusive approach to teaching and conducting research in architectural history as well as urban and environmental studies. In the past three decades, humanities scholars working with social and natural scientists have begun to challenge assumptions about the relations between cities and nature by investigating the complex interactions of cultural and natural systems, exploring how they are inextricably woven together into what is being called the urban landscape. An enduring intellectual and perceptual rift divides the city from the natural world both in scholarship and in the public imagination.

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