Grounding Urban Natures Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
Grounding Urban Natures Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
- Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Urban and Industrial Environments .
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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 of cities" based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of-and are shaped by-cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese "eco-city" Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker
Creative Commons
English
9780262039918 9780262353168 mitpress/11600.001.0001
10.7551/mitpress/11600.001.0001 doi
Urban & municipal planning
affective ecology articulating Baltimore beautification Berlin birds Cape Town China citizen mobilization citizen science collectives comparative urban environmentalism conservation contestation Cordoba Delhi design-driven research dispossession eco-urbanization ecological governance environment environmental history environmental studies environmentalism experiments green areas green cities hybridity India infrastructure invasive species Lagos landscape landscape architecture Langley language literacy Louisiana megacity Middlemiss more-than-human nature New Orleans Nigeria political ecology postcolonial studies resilience retrosembling Rondevlei rural transformation San Francisco sanctuary situating South Africa southern urbanism spatial planning speculation texturizing transformation urban design urban ecology urban ecosystems urban environmental history urban gardening urban planning urban political ecology urban studies urbanism urbanization volunteers water worlding
Open Access
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 of cities" based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of-and are shaped by-cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese "eco-city" Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker
Creative Commons
English
9780262039918 9780262353168 mitpress/11600.001.0001
10.7551/mitpress/11600.001.0001 doi
Urban & municipal planning
affective ecology articulating Baltimore beautification Berlin birds Cape Town China citizen mobilization citizen science collectives comparative urban environmentalism conservation contestation Cordoba Delhi design-driven research dispossession eco-urbanization ecological governance environment environmental history environmental studies environmentalism experiments green areas green cities hybridity India infrastructure invasive species Lagos landscape landscape architecture Langley language literacy Louisiana megacity Middlemiss more-than-human nature New Orleans Nigeria political ecology postcolonial studies resilience retrosembling Rondevlei rural transformation San Francisco sanctuary situating South Africa southern urbanism spatial planning speculation texturizing transformation urban design urban ecology urban ecosystems urban environmental history urban gardening urban planning urban political ecology urban studies urbanism urbanization volunteers water worlding