Grounding urban natures histories and futures of urban ecologies
Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
MIT Press
2019.
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| Colección: | Urban and industrial environments.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654690906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Toward comparative environmental urbanism : the discovery of urban natures in a "world of cities" / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin
- The disappearing river : infrastructural desire in New Orleans / Joshua Lewis
- Natures remade and imagined : "world city" beautifying and real-estate reclaiming in Lagos / Lindsay Sawyer
- Landscape literacy and design for ecological democracy : the nature of Mill Creek, Philadelphia / Anne Whiston Spirn
- Realms of exposure : design and the making of more-than-human ecologies in Cordoba, Argentina / Martín Ávila and Henrik Ernstson
- Nature's popular metropolis : the greening of the San Francisco Bay Area / Richard A. Walker
- Invasion and citizen mobilization : urban natures in Dalian, China / Lisa M. Hoffman
- Urban nature and its publics : shades of green in the remaking of Delhi / Amita Baviskar
- Regimes of urban nature : organic urbanism, biotope protection, and civic gardening in Berlin / Jens Lachmund
- Elbows over the fence : Rondevlei and the invention of community-based conservation in apartheid Cape Town / Lance van Sittert
- Ecology in the urban century : power, place and the abstraction of nature in Baltimore / James Evans
- Re-figuring the rural : eco-urbanization in Yixing City, China / Jia-Ching Chen
- Grounding and worlding urban natures : configuring an urban ecology knowledge project / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin.
