We invite you to participate in the "Third International Round-Table on Urban Environmental History of the 19th and 20th Centuries", dedicated to The Making of European Contemporary Cities: an Environmental History.

The conference will be held from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th June 2004 and will be hosted and promoted by the "Centro per la storia del cambiamento sociale" (Ciscam) of the University of Siena (Italy), in collaboration with the "Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo" (Naples) of the Italian National Council of Research.

The general theme:
The conference's overarching theme will be to develop an environmental perspective on the making of the European city over the last two centuries.The aim is to focus, through a historical approach, on the city conceived as an environmental system and on the environmental implications of the technical and social ways of 'creating' the urban system. The conference will investigate different local histories and will compare them on the European level.