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Urban wildscapes /

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban 'wilderness' landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned and marginal spaces are frequently overgrown with vegetation and host to a wide range of human activities. They inclu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jorgensen, Anna, Keenan, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Learning from Detroit or the wrong kind of ruins / Christopher Woodward
  • Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places / Paul H. Gobster
  • Places to be wild in nature / Catharine Ward Thompson
  • Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance / Tim Edensor [and others]
  • Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature / Katy Mugford
  • Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany / Renée de Waal, Arjen de Wit
  • Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Park Expo 2010 Shanghai / Yichen Li
  • Christiania Copenhagen a common out of the ordinary / Maria Hellström Reimer
  • The River Don as a linear urban wildscape / Ian D. Rotherham
  • Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the bandit lands of urban green space dereliction / Marian Tylecote, Nigel Dunnett
  • Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Südgelände Berlin / Andreas Langer
  • Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood / Helen Morse Palmer
  • Buried narratives / Catherine Heatherington
  • Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape / Mattias Qviström
  • Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice / Dougal Sheridan
  • Anti-planning, anti-design? Exploring alternative ways of making future urban landscapes / Anna Jorgensen, Lilli Lic̆ka.