Grounding urban natures : histories and futures of urban ecologies /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Ernstson, Henrik, 1972- (Editor), Sörlin, Sverker (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Toward comparative environmental urbanism : the discovery of urban natures in a "world of cities" / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin
  • The disappearing river : infrastructural desire in New Orleans / Joshua Lewis
  • Natures remade and imagined : "world city" beautifying and real-estate reclaiming in Lagos / Lindsay Sawyer
  • Landscape literacy and design for ecological democracy : the nature of Mill Creek, Philadelphia / Anne Whiston Spirn
  • Realms of exposure : design and the making of more-than-human ecologies in Cordoba, Argentina / Martín Ávila and Henrik Ernstson
  • Nature's popular metropolis : the greening ofthe San Francisco Bay Area / Richard A. Walker
  • Invasion and citizen mobilization : urban natures in Dalian, China / Lisa M. Hoffman
  • Urban nature and its publics : shades of green in the remaking of Delhi / Amita Baviskar
  • Regimes of urban nature : organic urbanism, biotope protection, and civic gardening in Berlin / Jens Lachmund
  • Elbows over the fence : Rondevlei and the invention of community-based conservation in apartheid Cape Town / Lance van Sittert
  • Ecology in the urban century : power, place and the abstraction of nature in Baltimore / James Evans
  • Re-figuring the rural : eco-urbanization in Yixing City, China / Jia-Ching Chen
  • Grounding and worlding urban natures : configuring an urban ecology knowledge project / Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin.