The working landscape : founding, preservation, and the politics of place /

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In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cannavò, Peter F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Land use > Government policy > United States.
Sustainable development > United States.
Human geography > United States.
Political ecology > United States.
Regional planning > United States > Citizen participation.
Utilisation du sol > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Développement durable > États-Unis.
Géographie humaine > États-Unis.
Écologie politique > États-Unis.
Aménagement du territoire > États-Unis > Participation des citoyens.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Human geography
Land use > Government policy
Political ecology
Regional planning > Citizen participation
Sustainable development
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtentwicklung
Regionalplanung
Landschaftsplanung
Umweltpolitik
United States
USA
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The phantom roads of Utah
  • Place : founding and preservation
  • The Northwest timber war
  • Sprawl
  • Rebuilding Ground Zero
  • The crisis of place
  • The working landscape
  • A policy agenda
  • Postscript: Place and the lessons of Katrina.

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