| Title | The Urban Island |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Connection and Remoteness in the History of Gallops Island in Boston Harbor |
| Contributor | Pavla Šimková (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/63831593227779.ch09 |
| Landing page | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93616 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2024-03-15 |
| Page range | pp. 215–236 |
| Print length | 22 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 3 illustrations |
Pavla Šimková is an environmental historian based at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Germany. She has held positions at both the Collegium Carolinum and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich where she received her doctorate in 2019. Her research interests include East Central European and American environmental history as well as urban history. She is currently one of the editors of the journal WerkstattGeschichte. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands, was published in 2021.