The Natural City : Re-envisioning the Built Environment /

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"Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities -- human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global cl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Scharper, Stephen B. (Editor ), Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Sustainable urban development.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
urban environments.
Urbanisme durable.
Écologie urbaine.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cultivating the terrain / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper
  • In search of the natural city / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
  • Can cities be both natural and successful? Reflections grounding two apparently oxymoronic aspirations / W.S.K. Cameron
  • The 'Gruing' of cities / Frank Cunningham
  • 'My streets are my ideas of imagination': Literature and the theme of the natural city / Peter Timmerman
  • From community to communion: The natural city in biotic and cosmological perspective / Stephen Bede Scharper
  • Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and city in the Greek East / Bruce V. Foltz
  • Dao in the city / Vincent Shen
  • Biocracy in the city: A contemporary Buddhist practice / Kenneth Maly
  • Gated ecologies and 'Possible Urban Worlds': From the global city to the natural city / Hilary Cunningham
  • Other voices: Acoustic ecology and urban soundscapes / Richard Oddie
  • Ecofeminist 'Cityzenry' / Trish Glazebrook
  • Sustainable urbanization / John B. Cobb, Jr.
  • 'Troubled nature': Some reflections on the changing nature of the millennial city, Gurgaon, India / Shubhra Gururani
  • Urban place as an expression of the ancestors / William Woodworth Raweno:Kwas
  • Seeing and animating the city: A phenomenological ecology of natural and built worlds / David Seamon
  • The city: A legacy of organism-environment interaction at every scale / Robert Mugerauer
  • Natural cities, unnatural energy? / Gaurav Kumar and Bryan W. Karney
  • Children and nature in the city / Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
  • Conclusion / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper.

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