The natural city : re-envisioning the built environment /

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Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Description:vii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8625474
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Other authors / contributors:Leman-Stefanovic, Ingrid.
Scharper, Stephen B.
ISBN:9780802091604 (bound)
0802091601 (bound)
9781442611023 (pbk.)
1442611022 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.

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505 0 |a 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. 
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