Urban Wildscapes

Author : Anna Jorgensen,Richard Keenan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136662836

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Urban Wildscapes by Anna Jorgensen,Richard Keenan Pdf

Eolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned, and marginal spaces or wildernesses 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 waste lands at a variety of different scales. Frequently maligned in the media, these landscapes have recently been re-evaluated and this collection combines these fresh perspectives in one volume. Includes around 100 colour images.

Author : Erin Vander Wall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884816

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Edgelands: A Collection of Monstrous Geographies by Erin Vander Wall Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. We are captivated by the monstrous. The monstrous encapsulates a variety of emotions, actions, behaviors, and re-sponses. In general usage it draws attention to the physicality of bodies, the fear and repulsion that have so often driven societal response, and the marginal status of those defined by such terms. Monstrous geographies draw on the unease and uncanniness at the core of the monstrous while shifting the consideration from bodies to places and spaces, away from corporeality and toward the sites or landscapes within which bodies move; away from the mon-strous form of a creature like the Yeti and toward the environment in which the Yeti thrives, an environment that must be monstrous to produce and sustain such a being. Considering such geographies allows for a nuanced under-standing of the places, both real and imagined, subtle and fantastic, that make up our world.

Author : Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317554431

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Global Garbage by Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner Pdf

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.

Author : Miguel Torres
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317242406

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Seville: Through the Urban Void by Miguel Torres Pdf

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims to render a principle of absence apprehensible, and to describe how it intervenes in place-making in the city. Seville: Through the Urban Void build mostly upon Henri Lefebvre’s work using concepts drawn on the social sciences, in order to articulate a biographic narrative of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville, Spain, which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and a very influential urban type. During its long historical span the Alameda has undergone alternating periods of decline and development, revealing the relations between successive urban paradigms and ideas of nature, territory, and the people. For the first time its whole history is told in a single account, which adds new perspectives to its understanding, and brings forward formerly disregarded aspects. This book shows how its liminal nature, which stubbornly persists over time, creates the conditions for creative processes.

Author : Amartya Deb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000936650

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Wild Spaces in Urban Development by Amartya Deb Pdf

This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space. Metropolitan cities are facing stark inequalities of green space distribution, hindering goals of sustainable development. But outside of human control, spontaneous nature grows in spaces that are neglected or are unaccounted for. Drawing on existing literature and primary research in a range of towns and cities, including Quito in Ecuador, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India, and Whitby in the United Kingdom, the book delves into the morphology, meanings, and values of those small-scale assemblages of wild growth which are typically overlooked. Discussing instead how such settings can be integrated into everyday urban life, the book offers a fresh perspective on issues around green infrastructure, heritage conservation, and environmental education, enabling cities worldwide to become more nature-positive. A unique examination of an under-researched topic, this book will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals across landscape architecture, urban planning, urban ecology, and all related fields.

Author : Jennifer Foster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351604031

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Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice by Jennifer Foster Pdf

This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries. These environments are often disregarded once their industrial functions wane, a trend that cities are experiencing through the advance of late capitalism. From a sustainability perspective, there are important lessons to learn about the potential prospects and perils of these disused sites. The combination of shelter, standing water and infrequent human visitation renders such spaces ecologically vibrant, despite residual toxicity and other environmentally undesirable conditions. They are also spaces of social refuge. Three case studies in Milwaukee, Paris and Toronto anchor the book, each of which offers unique analytical insight into the forms, functions and experiences of post-industrial urban greenspaces. Through this research, this book challenges the dominant instinct in Western urban planning to "rediscover" and redevelop these spaces for economic growth rather than ecological resilience and social justice. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of Urban Planning, Ecological Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Geography, Environmental Planning, Restoration Ecology, and Aesthetics.

Author : Angela Loder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317284253

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Small-Scale Urban Greening by Angela Loder Pdf

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban nature can help us create places that nurture ecological and human health and promote successful and equitable urban communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to current research debates and new comparative case studies on community perceptions of these urban greening projects and policies, this book explores how small-scale urban greening projects can impact our sense of place, health, creativity, and concentration while also being part of a successful urban greening program. Arguing that wildness, emotion, and sense of place are key components of our human–nature relationship, this book will be of interest to designers, academics, and policy makers.

Author : Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351201094

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Planning for Climate Change by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield,Yaser Abunnasr,Robert L. Ryan Pdf

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions.

Author : Gavin Poynter,Valerie Viehoff,Yang Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317637455

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The London Olympics and Urban Development by Gavin Poynter,Valerie Viehoff,Yang Li Pdf

As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate. This book provides an in-depth study of the transformation of East London as a result of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Government and event organisers use legacies of urban renewal to justify hosting the world’s leading sports mega-event, this book examines and evaluates those legacies. The London Olympics and Urban Development: the mega-event city is composed of new research, conducted by academics and policy makers. It combines case study analysis with conceptual insight into the role of a sports mega-events in transforming the city. It critically assesses the narrative of legacy as a framework for legitimizing urban changes and examines the use of this framework as a means of evaluating the outcomes achieved. This book is about that process of renewal, with a focus on the period following the 2012 Games and the diverse social, political and cultural implications of London’s use of the narrative of legacy.

Author : Cristian A. Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000518061

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The Interstitial Spaces of Urban Sprawl by Cristian A. Silva Pdf

This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character. The analysis of the interstitial spaces is structured into four themes: the conceptual grounds of interstitial spaces; the nature of interstices; the geographical scale of interstices; and the relationality of interstices. The empirical section of the book introduces seven cases that illustrate the varied nature of interstitiality to finally discuss its implications in the broader field of urban studies. Reflections upon further lines of enquiry and theories of urbanisation, urban sprawl, and cities are highlighted in the conclusion chapter. This is the ideal text for scholars of urban planning, strategic spatial planning, landscape planning, urban design, architecture, and other cognate disciplines as well as advanced students in these fields.

Author : Lisa K. Harris,William W. Shaw,Larry VanDruff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : City planning
ISBN : MINN:31951D021865599

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Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Urban Wildlife Conservation, May 1-5, 1999 by Lisa K. Harris,William W. Shaw,Larry VanDruff Pdf

Author : Kelly Conrad Bender
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1603440852

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Texas Wildscapes by Kelly Conrad Bender Pdf

Whether you have an apartment balcony or a multi-acre ranch, the Texas Wildscapes(TM) program provides the tools you need to make a home for all the animals that will thrive in the native habitat you create.

Author : Mike Peters,Liz Druitt,Howard Garrett
Publisher : Nineteen Ninety-Seven Texas Garden Almanac
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0965437817

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McMillen's Texas Garden Almanac 1998 Edition by Mike Peters,Liz Druitt,Howard Garrett Pdf

The 256 fact-filled pages provide Texas gardeners with complete details about planting and caring for vegetables and flowers throughout the state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Botany
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094816497

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British wildlife by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : PURD:32754084957822

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Domus by Anonim Pdf