Title & Author:

Urban wildscapes / edited by Anna Jorgensen and Richard Keenan.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

xv, 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning from Detroit or the wrong kind of ruins / Christopher Woodward -- Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places / Paul H. Gobster -- Places to be wild in nature / Catharine Ward Thompson -- Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance / Tim Edensor [and others] -- Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature / Katy Mugford -- Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany / Renée de Waal, Arjen de Wit -- Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Park Expo 2010 Shanghai / Yichen Li -- Christiania Copenhagen a common out of the ordinary / Maria Hellström Reimer -- The River Don as a linear urban wildscape / Ian D. Rotherham -- Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the bandit lands of urban green space dereliction / Marian Tylecote, Nigel Dunnett -- Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Südgelände Berlin / Andreas Langer -- Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood / Helen Morse Palmer -- Buried narratives / Catherine Heatherington -- Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape / Mattias Qviström -- Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice / Dougal Sheridan -- Anti-planning, anti-design? Exploring alternative ways of making future urban landscapes / Anna Jorgensen, Lilli Lic̆ka.

Summary:

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 fresh perspectives in one volume. Combining theory with illustrated examples and case studies, the book demonstrates that urban wildscapes have far greater significance, meaning and utility than is commonly thought, and that an appreciation of their particular qualities can inform a far more sustainable approach to the planning, design and management of the wider urban landscape. The wildscapes under investigation in this book are found in diverse locations throughout the UK, Europe, China and the US. They vary in scale from small sites to entire cities or regions, and from discrete locations to the imaginary wildscapes of children's literature. Many different themes are addressed including the natural history of wildscapes, their significance as a location for all kinds of playful activity, the wildscape as 'commons' and the implications for landscape architectural practice, ranging from planting interventions in wildscapes to the design of the urban public realm on wildscape principles. -- Book Cover.

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ISBN:

9780415581059 (alk. paper)
0415581052 (alk. paper)
9780415581066 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415581060 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203807545
0203807545

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
Wilderness areas.
Vacant lands.
Abandoned buildings.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Écologie urbaine.
Réserves de la vie sauvage.
Terrains vacants.
Constructions abandonnées.
urban environments.
wilderness areas.
vacant lots.
abandoned buildings.

Added entries:

Jorgensen, Anna.
Keenan, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276382
Call No.: BIB 210982
Status: Available