1. Important contemporaneous political science studies of urban air pollution policy include Matthew Crenson’s classic text, The Un-Politics of Air Pollution: A Study of Non-Decisionmaking in the Cities (Baltimore: John’s Hopkins University Press, 1971); and James E. Krier and Edmund Ursin’s Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution 1940–1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977). Historical studies of nuisances in Canada by legal scholars include Donald N. Dewees and Michael Halewood, “The Efficiency of the Common Law: Sulphur Dioxide Emissions in Sudbury,” University of Toronto Law Journal 42, no. 1 (1992): 1–21; and Jennifer Nedelsky, “Judicial Conservatism in an Age of Innovation: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian Nuisance Law 1880–1930,” in Essays in Canadian Legal History, ed. David Flaherty, 281–322 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981).
2. In particular, George Gonzalez’s Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006); and Gonzalez, “The US Politics of Water Pollution Policy: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and the Vending of Technology,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 24, no. 4 (2013): 105–121; and Owen Temby and Ryan O’Connor, “Property, Technology, and Environmental Policy: The Politics of Acid Rain in Ontario, 1978–1985,” Journal of Policy History 27, no. 4 (2015): 636–669.
3. Two less recent yet still relevant historical studies include Matthew Bray, "The Province of Ontario and the Problem of Sulphur Fumes Emissions in the Sudbury District: An Historical Perspective," Laurentian University Review 16, no. 2 (1984): 81-90
4. and Raymond W. Smilor, "Cacophony at 34th and 6th: The Noise Problem in America, 1900-1930," American Studies 18, no. 1 (1977): 23-38.
5. On weeds and trees, Zachary J. S. Falck, "Controlling the Weed Nuisance in Turn-of-the-Century American Cities," Environmental History 7, no. 4 (2002): 611-631