The natural city : re-envisioning the built environment / edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Scharper.

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The natural city : re-envisioning the built environment / edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Scharper.

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Description:

vii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections -- 1. In Search of the Natural City / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic -- 2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations / W.S.K. Cameron -- 3. `Gruing' of Cities / Frank Cunningham -- 4. `My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination': Literature and the Theme of the Natural City / Peter Timmerman -- II. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives -- 5. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective / Stephen Bede Scharper -- 6. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East / Bruce V. Foltz -- 7. Dao in the City / Vincent Shen -- 8. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Practice / Kenneth Maly -- III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications -- 9. Gated Ecologies and `Possible Urban Worlds': From the Global City to the Natural City / Hilary Cunningham -- 10. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes / Richard Oddie -- 11. Ecofeminist `Cityzenry' / Trish Glazebrook -- 12. Sustainable Urbanization / John B. Cobb, Jr -- 13. `Troubled Nature': Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City, Gurgaon, India / Shubhra Gururani -- IV. Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis -- 14. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors / William Woodworth -- 15. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds / David Seamon -- 16. City: A Legacy of Organism-Environment Interaction at Every Scale / Robert Mugerauer -- 17. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy? / Bryan W. Karney -- 18. Children and Nature in the City / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic.

ISBN:

9781442611023 (Paper)
1442611022 (Paper)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Écologie urbaine.
Urbanisme durable.
urban environments.

Added entries:

Scharper, Stephen B.
Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid.

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Location: Library main 276241
Call No.: BIB 210795
Status: Available

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