TY  - BOOK
TI  - Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
T2  - Urban and Industrial Environments
SN  - 9780262039918
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Urban & municipal planning
KW  - bicssc
KW  - affective ecology
KW  - articulating
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - beautification
KW  - Berlin
KW  - birds
KW  - Cape Town
KW  - China
KW  - citizen mobilization
KW  - citizen science
KW  - collectives
KW  - comparative urban environmentalism
KW  - conservation
KW  - contestation
KW  - Cordoba
KW  - Delhi
KW  - design-driven research
KW  - dispossession
KW  - eco-urbanization
KW  - ecological governance
KW  - environment
KW  - environmental history
KW  - environmental studies
KW  - environmentalism
KW  - experiments
KW  - green areas
KW  - green cities
KW  - hybridity
KW  - India
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - invasive species
KW  - Lagos
KW  - landscape
KW  - landscape architecture
KW  - Langley
KW  - language
KW  - literacy
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - megacity
KW  - Middlemiss
KW  - more-than-human
KW  - nature
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - political ecology
KW  - postcolonial studies
KW  - resilience
KW  - retrosembling
KW  - Rondevlei
KW  - rural transformation
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - sanctuary
KW  - situating
KW  - South Africa
KW  - southern urbanism
KW  - spatial                     planning
KW  - speculation
KW  - texturizing
KW  - transformation
KW  - urban design
KW  - urban ecology
KW  - urban ecosystems
KW  - urban environmental history
KW  - urban gardening
KW  - urban planning
KW  - urban political ecology
KW  - urban studies
KW  - urbanism
KW  - urbanization
KW  - volunteers
KW  - water
KW  - worlding
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78565
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11600.001.0001
ER  -