I. Introduction
1. Environmental History, the Second World War, and Urban Resilience
II. Urban Environment
2. Critical Networks
3. Fortress City: The Militarized Landscape of Seattle
4. War and Urban-Industrial Air Pollution in the UK and US
5. Imagined Resilience
III. Urban Nature
6. Guerrilla Gardening? Urban Agriculture and the Environment
7. Gaining Strength from Nature
8. Resilience behind Bars
9. Where Have all the Pigeons Gone
IV. Urban Society
10. Partial Resilience in Nationalist China’s Wartime Capital
11. Japanese-Occupied Hanoi
12. The Esteros and Manila’s Postwar Remaking
13. Apocalyptic Urban Future
V. Conclusions
14. Epilogue: What Makes a City Resilient?