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Ecological urbanism : the nature of the city / Susannah Hagan.
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Title:Ecological urbanism : the nature of the city / Susannah Hagan.
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Author/Creator:Hagan, Susannah, author.
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Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: HT241 .H34 2015
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Number of Items:2
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Description:xiii, 174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Summary:"Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design? How does Ecological Urbanism figure in this change? What is Ecological Urbanism? In answer, this book is neither definitive - impossible when a subject is still in motion - nor encyclopaedic - equally impossible when so much has been written on almost every aspect of these essays. Instead, it seeks to rebalance the ecological narrative and its embryonic modes of practice with the narratives of urbanism and its older, deeply embedded modes of practice. It examines the implications for cities and the designers of cities now we are required to again address their metabolic as well as social and formal dimensions, and it explores the extent to which environmental engineering and natural systems design can and should become drivers for the remaking of cities in the 21st century. Above all, it argues that sooner rather than later, urbanism needs to become environmentally literate, and environmental design needs to become culturally literate"-- Provided by publisher.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780415506670 (hardback)
0415506670 (hardback)
9780415506687 (paperback)
0415506689 (paperback)
9781315761480 (ebook)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 What is it?
1. Ecological Urbanism
Origins
Ecosystems
Ecological Urbanism and sustainable cities
RiverCity, Gothenburg
Conclusion
2. future provenance
Lexicography
Urban ecology
Ecological Urbanism
Cultural ecology
Ecological anthropology
Political ecology
Landscape urbanism
Conclusion
pt. 2 Three models
3. garden
Garden City
green belt
Green infrastructure
Contemporary Garden Cities
Conclusion
4. boundary
Precedents
Compact City
Density
Polynucleation
`The New Urbanism'
Compact City critiques
Sprawl
Energy
Environment
Conclusion
5. continuum
Precedents
Broadacre City
Disurbanists
Geddes and McHarg
field
suburbs
Defining the suburbs
Performance
Private/public
Design
car
Edge Cities
Shrinking cities
Interventions
Wuppertal
Hull
Conclusion
pt. 3 What's new?
6. ideal city and the eco city: a historical taxonomy
ideal city pre-twentieth century
Sforzinda
Phalanstery
ideal city twentieth century
La Cite Industrielle
New Babylon
dystopian city twentieth century
2,000 ton city
sustainable city twentieth/twenty-first century
eco city twentieth/twenty-first century
Masdar
Dongtan
Gwang Gyo
Destiny
Ecotopia
Auroville
Lilypad
Conclusion
pt. 4 Double vision
7. Control
Planning
Resilience
Infrastructure
HafenCity, Hamburg
Size
Location and Central Place theories
Natural limits?
Governance
Tokyo
Sao Paulo
Passing the buck
Conclusion
8. Resistance
Strategy
Tactics
Lina Bo Bardi
Urban Think Tank
Local Agenda 21
Self-organisation
Resilience thinking
Conclusion.