Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Rewilding the Urban Frontier
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Rewilding the Urban Frontier
Author: Greg GordonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623992X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Rewilding the Urban Frontier
Author: Greg GordonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496230612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene--that is, creating self-sustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.
Waste and Urban Regeneration
Author: Jeong Hye KimPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000264084
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city’s urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The study analyses the urban ecological meanings of the site’s two distinct forms by consolidating them with the Lefebvrian urban theory and relational ecological theories. This book looks at environmental transformations and their link to South Korea’s political and economic changes; how Seoul City controlled waste populations, the borderline characterisations of the inhabited landfill and its community, the regeneration of the landfill into the post-landfill park and site-specific artworks which explored the conflict between the invisible presence of the landfill’s garbage and its history. As one of the first accounts of a landfill and landfill-turned-park of South Korea, this study is a must-read for academics and researchers interested in waste management, ecology, landscape theory and history.
Rewild Or Die
Author: Urban ScoutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781621069720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Rewild or Die is a collection of essays written by Urban Scout exploring the philosophy of the emerging rewilding renaissance, in which civilized humans are thought to be "domesticated" through thousands of years of sedentary, agrarian life. This way of life is believed to be the root of all environmental destruction and social injustice. Rewilding is the process of un-doing this domestication, and restoring healthy, biologically diverse communities. Using thoughtful, humorously cynical and at times angry prose, Urban Scout explores how the ideology of civilization clashes with the wild and wild peoples, and how thinking, feeling and most importantly living wild is the only way to reach true sustainability.
Unlearn, Rewild
Author: Miles OlsonPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865717214
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Provides a manual to break free from enslavement to jobs, bills, and the trap of civilization, sharing advice on survival skills and sustainable living.
Historical Legacies of Land Use in Cities; Parks, Open Spaces and Potential for Green Infrastructure- Ideas of City Nature in an Urbanizing Planet
Author: Stephanie PincetlPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889719510
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Key Thinkers on Cities
Author: Regan KochPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473987113
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the way cities around the world are understood, researched, debated and acted upon. Providing a synoptic overview that spans a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, the entry for each key thinker comprises: A succinct introduction and overview Intellectual biography and research focus An explication of key ideas Contributions to urban studies The book offers a fresh look at well-known thinkers who have been foundational to urban scholarship, including Jane Jacobs, Henri Lefebvre, Manuel Castells and David Harvey. It also incorporates those who have helped to bring a concern for cities to more widespread audiences, such as Jan Gehl, Mike Davis and Enrique Peñalosa. Notably, the book also includes a range of thinkers who have more recently begun to shape the study of cities through engagements with art, architecture, computer modelling, ethnography, public health, post-colonial theory and more. With an introduction that provides a mapping of the current transdisciplinary field, and individual entries by those currently involved in cutting edge urban research in the Global North and South, this book promises to be an essential text for anyone interested in the study of cities and urban life. It will be of use to those in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, sociology and urban planning.
A Great and Shining Road
Author: John Hoyt WilliamsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297890
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the Sierras and the “Great American Desert,” the tracks connected San Francisco to Council Bluffs, Iowa. A Great and Shining Road is the exciting story of a mammoth feat that called forth entrepreneurial daring, financial wizardry, technological innovation, political courage and chicanery, and the heroism of thousands of laborers.
Author: James W. Feldman