Title & Author:

The botanical city / Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2020]
©2020

Description:

323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The city as a botanical field / Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper -- Part 1. Histories and taxonomies. Signs of life : interview with Herbert Sukopp / [Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper] -- The metabolic city and the city of biotopes : Paul Duvigneaud and Herbert Sukopp / Jens Lachmund -- Urban granaries, planetary thresholds / Nigel Clark -- The flora of bombed areas (an allegorical key) / Seth Denizen -- Vegetation as testimony : botanical traces of the urban past / Moritz von der Lippe -- The curious disappearance of the Ennore Creek / Bhavani Raman -- Phoenix canariensis in Lisbon's new ecologies : a post-phenomenological tracing of a palm tree in a disused gasworks / Daniel Paiva -- Urban plants and colonial durabilities / Henrik Ernstson -- Ailanthus aitissima, or the botanical afterlives of European power / Bettina Stoetzer -- Seeing, surveying, and sorting urban trees : the 1970s street tree project in Dresden / Donja Dümpelmann -- Vertical ecologies : the balcony biotopes of Berlin / Dorothee Brantz -- Drying greens, commons, and the possibilities of the botanical (in one quiet corner of London) / Marcus Nyman. Part 2. Botanizing the asphalt. The flight of seeds / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra -- Dandelions at work : a street corner tale of ecosystem services / Alexandra R. Toland -- Plants in the urban night / Bergit Arends -- Toxic tour : Houston's environmental apartheid and institutional liberation / T. J. Demos -- Queering the transect / Matthew Gandy -- Walking with plants : disrupting the material logics of degrado at the banks of Turin's Stura river / Lucilla Barchetta -- Following mosquitoes into an urban forest / Nida Rehman -- Rhizome city : tracing knotweed through the soils of Brussels / Livia Cahn. Part 3. The art of urban flora / Lois Weinberger, Zheng Bo, Mona Caron, Yan Wang Preston, Uriel Orlow. Part 4 Experiments in non-design. Framing urban landscapes : interview with Susanne Hauser / [Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper] -- Acoustic botany : listening to nature in a former airfield / Sandra Jasper -- There's life in dead wood : tracing a more-than-human urbanity in the spontaneous nature of Gothenburg / Mathilda Rosengren -- From undead commodities to lively labourers : (re)valuing vegetal life, reclaiming the power to design-with plants / Marion Ernwein -- Tracing the urban pastoral in Tallinn : Leo Marx, Karl Marx, and urban political aesthetics / Maroš Krivý -- Tokyo ecology : the Akabane Nature Observation Park / Kumiko Kiuchi -- Red leaves / Suili Xiao. Part 5. Cartographic imaginations. Urban plants : a window on how ecology becomes evolution / Peter Del Tredici -- Discovering and mapping urban plants / Mark Spencer -- Mapping the urban flora of Berlin / Birgit Seitz -- Nature is for everyone : investigating attitudes to urban biodiversity / Leonie Fischer -- Urban cemeteries in Berlin and beyond : life in the grounds of the dead / Ingo Kowarik.

Summary:

"Roadside 'weeds' and other routinely overlooked aspects of urban nature provide a fascinating glimpse into the complex global ecologies and new cultures of nature emerging across the world. This unique collection of essays explores the botanical dimensions of urban space, ranging from scientific efforts to understand the distinctive dynamics of urban flora to the way spontaneous vegetation has inspired artists and writers."-- back cover

ISBN:

9783868595192 (paperback)
3868595198 (paperback)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Biology)
Urban plants.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Écologie urbaine.
Flore urbaine.
urban environments.

Added entries:

Gandy, Matthew, editor.
Jasper, Sandra, editor

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308978
Call No.: BIB 254292
Status: Available