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    Ecological urbanism : the nature of the city / Susannah Hagan.

    • Title:Ecological urbanism : the nature of the city / Susannah Hagan.
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    • Author/Creator:Hagan, Susannah, author.
    • Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Urban ecology (Sociology)
    • Description:xiii, 174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415506670 (hardback)
      0415506670 (hardback)
      9780415506687 (paperback)
      0415506689 (paperback)
      9781315761480 (ebook)
    • 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.
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