Titre et auteur:

In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism / edited by Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xv, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Série(s):

Questioning cities series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban political ecology : politicizing the production of urban natures / Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw -- Metabolic urbanization : the making of cyborg cites / Erik Swyngedouw -- Metropolitics and metabolics : rolling out environmentalism in Toronto -- Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Urban nature and the ecological imaginary / Matthew Gandy -- Nature's carnival : the ecology of pleasure at Coney Island / Eliza Darling -- The desire to metabolize nature : Edward Loveden Loveden, William Vanderstegen, and the disciplining of the river Thames / Stuart Oliver -- Turfgrass subjects : the political economy of urban monoculture / Paul Robbins and Julie Sharp -- Justice of eating in the city : the political ecology of urban hunger / Nik Heynen -- Metabolism of obe-city : flows of fat through bodies, cities and sewers / Simon Marvin and Will Medd -- The political ecology of water scarcity : the 1989-1991 Athenian drought / Maria Kaika -- The metabolic processes of capital accumulation in Durban's waterscape / Alex Loftus -- The public/private conundrum of urban water : a view from South Africa / Laila Smith and Greg Ruiters -- Inherited fragmentations and naratives of environmental control in entrepreneurial Philadelphia / Alec Brownlow -- Transnational alliances and global politics : new geographies of urban environmental justice struggles / David N. Pellow -- Urban metabolism as target : contemporary war as forced demodernization / Stephen Graham.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Résumé:

Includes urban case studies and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will give students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies a better understanding of how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.

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ISBN:

0415368278 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415368278 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415368286 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415368285 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415368278
9780203027523
0203027523

Sujet:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
Political ecology.
Urban areas.
Ecology.
Politics.
Sociology.
Écologie urbaine.
Écologie politique.
urban environments.
Politische Ökologie
Stadtökologie
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Milieuverandering.
Politieke aspecten.

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Vedettes secondaires:

Heynen, Nik, 1973-
Kaika, Maria.
Swyngedouw, E. (Erik)
Heynen, Nik, 1973- editor.
Kaika, Maria editor.
Swyngedouw, E. (Erik) editor.
Questioning cities series.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 293986
Cote: BIB 239260
Statut: Disponible