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Ecologies of the early garden city : essays on structure, agency, and greenspace /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Livesey, Graham, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Champaign, IL : Common Ground Research Networks, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Assemblage theory
  • Organization of the book
  • Landscape ecology
  • Flows and turbulence defining flow
  • Human constructed flow systems
  • Turbulence and habitats
  • Conclusion: productive flows
  • Patches and patterns
  • Patch-corridor-matrix spatial model
  • Urban patchwork dynamics
  • Evolving patchwork patterns
  • Assemblages and territories
  • Conclusion: activating ecologies
  • Boundaries and corridors
  • The functions of boundary systems
  • Boundary dynamics and ecotones
  • Corridors and networks
  • Conclusion: assemblages and boundaries
  • Agents and agencies
  • Assemblages and agency
  • Individuals versus organizations
  • Organizations and boundaries
  • Conclusion: towards boundaryless organizations
  • Early garden city
  • Garden city theory
  • Influences on the garden city
  • Ebenezer howard and tomorrow; a peaceful path to real reform
  • Conclusion: a rural-urban vision
  • Letchworth garden city, 1903-1913
  • The early development of letchworth
  • C.b. purdom and a critique of the first decade
  • Conclusion: garden city innovations
  • Gardeners and gardens
  • The qualities of the gardener and gardening
  • The garden as an assemblage
  • The evolution of the park
  • Conclusion: beyond maintenance
  • Farmers and greenbelts
  • Farms and farming
  • The functions of greenbelts
  • Benefits and problems
  • Conclusion: active ecologies
  • Letchworth garden city innovations
  • The management of flows
  • The functional organization of land
  • Boundaries and corridors
  • Agents and agencies
  • The gardener as a community figure
  • Greenbelts and the role of the farmer
  • Conclusion: letchworth after 1913
  • Conclusion.