LEADER 04692nam 2200517K 450 001 9910557557903321 005 20190503052514.8 010 $a0-262-35317-2 010 $a0-262-35316-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000009037552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5850208 035 $a(OCoLC)1099693257 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1099693257 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11600 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78565 035 $a(PPN)23841826X 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88872679 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009037552 100 $a20190502d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGrounding urban natures $ehistories and futures of urban ecologies /$fedited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker So?rlin 210 1$aCambridge :$cMIT Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (441 pages) 225 1 $aUrban and Industrial Environments 311 $a0-262-03991-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aToward 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 / Marti?n A?vila 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 So?rlin. 330 $aCase studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as ?smart cities,? ?eco-cities,? and ?resilience,? and proposing a ?science of cities? based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of?and are shaped by?cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese ?eco-city? Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker 410 0$aUrban and industrial environments. 606 $aUrban ecology (Sociology)$vCase studies 606 $aUrbanization$xEnvironmental aspects$vCase studies 615 0$aUrban ecology (Sociology) 615 0$aUrbanization$xEnvironmental aspects 676 $a304.2/091732 702 $aErnstson$b Henrik$f1972- 702 $aSo?rlin$b Sverker 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557557903321 996 $aGrounding urban natures$93362382 997 $aUNINA