The natural city : re-envisioning the built environment /

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Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 350 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Urban ecology (Sociology) City planning -- Environmental aspects. Sustainable urban development. City planning -- Environmental aspects. Sustainable urban development. Urban ecology (Sociology) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149436

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Other authors / contributors:	Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid, editor. Scharper, Stephen B., editor.
ISBN:	9781442698024 1442698020
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on March 31, 2019).
Summary:	"Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities -- human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions. "Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities -- human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions. A timely and important collection, The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life."--Pub. desc.
Other form:	Print version: Natural city. Toronto ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 9780802091604

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Cultivating the terrain / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper
In search of the natural city / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Can cities be both natural and successful? Reflections grounding two apparently oxymoronic aspirations / W.S.K. Cameron
The 'Gruing' of cities / Frank Cunningham
'My streets are my ideas of imagination': Literature and the theme of the natural city / Peter Timmerman
From community to communion: The natural city in biotic and cosmological perspective / Stephen Bede Scharper
Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and city in the Greek East / Bruce V. Foltz
Dao in the city / Vincent Shen
Biocracy in the city: A contemporary Buddhist practice / Kenneth Maly
Gated ecologies and 'Possible Urban Worlds': From the global city to the natural city / Hilary Cunningham
Other voices: Acoustic ecology and urban soundscapes / Richard Oddie
Ecofeminist 'Cityzenry' / Trish Glazebrook
Sustainable urbanization / John B. Cobb, Jr.
'Troubled nature': Some reflections on the changing nature of the millennial city, Gurgaon, India / Shubhra Gururani
Urban place as an expression of the ancestors / William Woodworth Raweno:Kwas
Seeing and animating the city: A phenomenological ecology of natural and built worlds / David Seamon
The city: A legacy of organism-environment interaction at every scale / Robert Mugerauer
Natural cities, unnatural energy? / Gaurav Kumar and Bryan W. Karney
Children and nature in the city / Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Conclusion / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper.

The natural city : re-envisioning the built environment /

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