Parks for Profit : : Selling Nature in the City /

Parks for Profit : : Selling Nature in the City / / Kevin Loughran.

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Loughran, Kevin,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 20 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • I INTRODUCTION
  • 1 SOMETIME IN 2009
  • 2 VARIETIES OF URBAN CRISIS
  • II GROWTH MACHINES IN THE GARDEN
  • 3 “THE YUPPIE EXPRESS”
  • 4 “NO MORE BAKE SALES, MAN”
  • 5 “A PIECE OF CRUD”
  • 6 PARKS FOR PROFIT OR FOR PEOPLE?
  • III GARDENS IN THE MACHINE
  • 7 DEFECTIVE LANDSCAPES
  • 8 IMBRICATED SPACES
  • 9 CONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL AUTHENTICITY
  • 10 SPATIAL PRACTICES AND SOCIAL CONTROL
  • IV CONCLUSION
  • 11 AFTER THE HIGH LINE
  • 12 ABOLISH, DECOLONIZE, ROT
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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