The Natural City : : Re-envisioning the Built Environment / / ed. by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper.
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 c...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 p.) :; 20 Figures |
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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