Urban wildscapes / / edited by Anna Jorgensen and Richard Keenan

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Urban ecology (Sociology); Wilderness areas; Vacant lands; Abandoned buildings
• Altri autori: JorgensenAnna KeenanRichard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Urban Wildscapes; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword: the wild side of town: Chris Baines; Introduction: Anna Jorgensen; Part 1: Theorizing Wildscapes; 1. Learning from Detroit or 'the wrong kind of ruins': Christopher Woodward; 2. Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places: Paul H. Gobster; 3. Places to be wild in nature: Catharine Ward Thompson ; 4. Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance: Tim Edensor, Bethan Evans, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Jon Binnie5. Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature: Katy Mugford; Part 2: Wildscape Case Studies; 6. Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany: Renée De Waal and Arjen De Wit; 7. Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Park - Expo 2010 Shanghai: Yichen Li ; 8. Christiania Copenhagen: a colmmon out of the ordinary: Maria Hellström Reimer9. The River Don as a linear urban wildscape: Ian D. Rotherham; 10. Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the 'bandit lands' of urban green space dereliction: Marian Tylecote and Nigel Dunnett; 11. Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Südgelände, Berlin: Andreas Langer; 12. Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood: Helen Morse Palmer; Part 3: Implications for Wildscape Practice; 13. Buried narratives: Catherine Heatherington ; 14. Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape: Mattias Qviström15. Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice: Dougal Sheridan; 16. Anti-planning, anti-design?: exploring alternative ways of making future urban landscapes: Anna Jorgensen and Lilli Lička; Illustration credits; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban 'wilderness' landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned and marginal spaces are frequently overgrown with vegetation and host to a wide range of human activities. They include former industrial sites, landfill, allotments, cemeteries, woods, infrastructural corridors, vacant lots and a whole array of urban wastelands at a variety of different scales. Frequently maligned in the media, these landscapes have recently been re-evaluated and this collection assembles these
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban wildscapes
• ISBN: 1-136-66282-0; 1-136-66283-9; 0-203-80754-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779034403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II