The Natural City : : Re-envisioning the Built Environment / / ed. by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper.

• MitwirkendeR: Cameron, W.S.K.,; Cobb, John B.,; Cunningham, Frank,; Cunningham, Hilary,; Foltz, Bruce V.,; Glazebrook, Trish,; Gururani, Shubhra,; Jr,,; Karney, Bryan W.,; King, Sarah J.,; Kumar, Gaurav,; Maly, Kenneth,; Mugerauer, Robert,; Oddie, Richard,; Scharper, Stephen Bede,; Seamon, David,; Shen, Vincent,; Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman,; Timmerman, Peter,; Woodworth, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Scharper, Stephen Bede,; Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.) :; 20 Figures

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 climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions. A timely and important collection, The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cultivating the Terrain -- I: Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections -- 1. In Search of the Natural City -- 2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations -- 3. The 'Gruing' of Cities -- 4. 'My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination': Literature and the Theme of the Natural City -- II: From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives -- 5. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective -- 6. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East -- 7. Dao in the City -- 8. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist -- III: Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications -- 9. Gated Ecologies and 'Possible Urban Worlds': From the Global City to the Natural City -- 10. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes -- 11. Ecofeminist 'Cityzenry' -- 12. Sustainable Urbanization -- 13. 'Troubled Nature': Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City, Gurgaon, India -- IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis -- 14. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors -- 15. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds -- 16. The City: A Legacy of Organism-Environment Interaction at Every Scale -- 17. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy? -- 18. Children and Nature in the City -- Conclusion -- Contributors