In The Nature Of Cities
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In The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Nik Heynen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-03-23
In The Nature Of Cities written by Nik Heynen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with Science categories.
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social, political, and economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what constitutes the ‘urban’ or the ‘natural’. Through both theoretical and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes. The essays in this book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place. Including urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies to better understand how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.
In The Nature Of Cities
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Author : N HEYNEN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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On The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Kenneth R. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Release Date : 1979
On The Nature Of Cities written by Kenneth R. Schneider and has been published by Jossey-Bass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Political Science categories.
The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Michael Bennett
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1999-10
The Nature Of Cities written by Michael Bennett and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10 with Nature categories.
Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new collection of essays sharpens the focus on the nature of cities by exploring the facets of an urban ecocriticism, by reminding city dwellers of their place in ecosystems, and by emphasizing the importance of this connection in understanding urban life and culture. The editorsÑboth raised in small towns but now living in major urban areasÑare especially concerned with the sociopolitical construction of all environments, both natural and manmade. Following an opening interview with Andrew Ross exploring the general parameters of urban ecocriticism, they present essays that explore urban nature writing, city parks, urban "wilderness," ecofeminism and the city, and urban space. The volume includes contributions on topics as wide-ranging as the urban poetry of English writers from Donne to Gay, the manufactured wildness of a gambling casino, and the marketing of cosmetics to urban women by idealizing Third World "naturalness." These essays seek to reconceive nature and its cultural representations in ways that contribute to understanding the contemporary cityscape. They explore the theoretical issues that arise when one attempts to adopt and adapt an environmental perspective for analyzing urban life. The Nature of Cities offers the ecological component often missing from cultural analyses of the city and the urban perspective often lacking in environmental approaches to contemporary culture. By bridging the historical gap between environmentalism, cultural studies, and urban experience, the book makes a statement of lasting importance to the development of the ecocritical movement. CONTENTS Part 1ÑThe Nature of Cities 1. Urban Ecocriticism: An Introduction, Michael Bennett & David Teague 2. The Social Claim on Urban Ecology, Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) Part 2ÑUrban Nature Writing 3. London Here and Now: Walking, Streets, and Urban Environments in English Poetry from Donne to Gay, Gary Roberts 4. "All Things Natural Are Strange": Audre Lorde, Urban Nature, and Cultural Place, Kathleen R. Wallace 5. Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the Regreening of the American Suburb, Terrell Dixon Part 3ÑCity Parks 6. Writers and Dilettantes: Central Park and the Literary Origins of Antebellum Urban Nature, Adam W. Sweeting 7. Postindustrial Park or Bourgeois Playground? Preservation and Urban Restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park, Richard Heyman Part 4ÑUrban "Wilderness" 8. Boyz in the Woods: Urban Wilderness in American Cinema, Andrew Light 9. Central High and the Suburban Landscape: The Ecology of White Flight, David Teague 10. Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-urbanism and the Spatialization of Race, Michael Bennett Part 5ÑEcofeminism and the City 11. An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Urban Environment, Catherine Villanueva Gardner 12. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman": The Political Economy of Contemporary Cosmetics Discourse, Laura L. Sullivan Part 6ÑTheorizing Urban Space 13. Darwin's City, or Life Underground: Evolution, Progress, and the Shapes of Things to Come, Joanne Gottlieb 14. Nature in the Apartment: Humans, Pets, and the Value of Incommensurability, David R. Shumway 15. Cosmology in the Casino: Simulacra of Nature in the Interiorized Wilderness, Michael P. Branch
The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Chauncy Dennison Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
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The Cleaning And Sewerage Of Cities
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Author : Reinhard Baumeister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
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An Inquiry Into The Usage Of Baptizo And The Nature Of Judaic Baptism
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Author : James Wilkinson Dale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
An Inquiry Into The Usage Of Baptizo And The Nature Of Judaic Baptism written by James Wilkinson Dale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Baptism categories.
The Bondage Of Cities
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Author : Frank Parsons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
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An Inquiry Into The Usage Of Baptizo And The Nature Of Johannic Baptism
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Author : James Wilkinson Dale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
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On The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Kenneth Schneider
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-12
On The Nature Of Cities written by Kenneth Schneider and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12 with Political Science categories.
Why, as more and more people inhabit cities, are individuals (and families) increasingly isolated and alienated from the world around them? Why do private living conditions materially improve, while public settings-neighborhoods and city centers-rapidly deteriorate? Why do American cities consume more land than any other cities in the world yet exist without true spaciousness and strangle in congestion? Why has desire for private, single-family homes worked against the development of effective urban systems? In his original analysis of modern American cities, Kenneth Schneider carefully evaluates the causes and effects of these paradoxes. Schneider shows that current city conditions are destructive to the happiness and well-being of people and demonstrates that much of the failure of cities stems from their basic form and structure, from outmoded traditions of citymaking, and from persistent urban policies based on economic growth and technological development. He present a new approach to the understanding of cities - ecological humanism-that combines concern for the well-being of both the city habitat and its inhabitants and thus provides one of the first genuinely social bases for reorganizing cities and their institutions.