Title & Author:

Urban place : reconnecting with the natural world / edited by Peggy F. Barlett.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Description:

viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reconnecting with place : faculty and the Piedmont Project at Emory University / Peggy F. Barlett -- Lifting spirits : creating gardens in California domestic violence shelters / Susan M. Stuart -- Community gardens in New York City : place, community, and individuality / Malve von Hassell -- Urban connections to locally grown produce / Susan L. Andreatta -- Missouri Regional Cuisines Project : connecting to place in the restaurant / Elizabeth Barham, David Lind, and Lewis Jett -- Urban volunteers and the environment : forest and prairie restoration / Robert L. Ryan and Robert E. Grese -- Nature, memory, and nation : New York's Latino gardens and casitas / Barbara Deutsch Lynch and Rima Brusi -- On the sublime in nature in cities / Robert Rotenberg -- Forest, savanna, city : evolutionary landscapes and human functioning / William C. Sullivan -- Health of places, the wealth of evidence / Howard Frumkin -- Preference, restoration, and meaningful action in the context of nearby nature / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Concluding remarks : nature and health in the urban environment / Jules Pretty and Peggy F. Barlett.

Summary:

Amidst city concrete and suburban sprawl, Americans are discovering new ways to reconnect with the natural world. From community gardens in New York's Lower East Side to homeless shelters in California, the search for a more sustainable future has led grassroots groups to a profound reconnection to place and to the natural world. This volume brings together research from anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, and landscape architecture to highlight how awareness of locale and a meaningful renewal of attachment with the earth are connected to delight in learning about nature as well as to civic action and new forms of community. Community garden coalitions, organic market advocates, and greenspace preservationists resist the power of global forces, enacting visions of a different future. Their creative efforts tell a story of a constructive and dynamic middle ground between private plots and public action, between human health and ecosystem health, betweenindividual attachment and urban sustainability.

ISBN:

0262025868 (alk. paper)
9780262025867 (alk. paper)
0262524430 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262524438 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
Human ecology.
Organic living.
Bioregionalism.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Écologie urbaine.
Écologie humaine.
Bio (Style de vie)
Biorégionalisme.
urban environments.
human ecology.
urban environment.
urban forestry.
public parks.
recreation.
health.
usa.
Humanökologie
Stadtleben
Stadtökologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtsoziologie
Stadtplanung
Stadtgrün
Stedelijke omgeving.
Ecologie.
Nature Protection.
USA

Added entries:

Barlett, Peggy F., 1947-
Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243481
Call No.: BIB 173230
Status: Available