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Urban ecology. --- City planning --- Environmental aspects --- City planning - Environmental aspects
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Urban forestry --- Trees in cities --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Forest surveys
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Urban forestry --- Trees in cities --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Forest surveys
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Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population is now classified as "urban." As cities become the dominant living evironment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable―in short, more "humane." This book explores the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable. Its point of departure is the legacy of William H. Whyte (1917-1999), one of America's most admired urban thinkers. From his eyrie high above Manhattan in the offices of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whyte laid the foundation for today's "smart growth" and "new urbanist" movements with books such as The Last Landscape (1968). His passion for improving the habitability of cities and suburbs is reflected in the diverse grassroots urban design and regreening strategies discussed in this volume.
Greenbelts --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Green belts --- Open spaces --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmental aspects --- Urban ecology (Sociology) United States Congresses. --- City planning United States Congresses. --- Greenbelts United States Congresses.
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The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social, political, and economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what constitutes the 'urban' or the 'natural'. Through both theoretical and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes.The essays in this book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place.Including urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies to better understand how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.
Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Political ecology. --- Ecologie urbaine --- Ecologie politique --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Écologie urbaine. --- Politique de l'environnement. --- Écologisme. --- Écologie urbaine. --- Écologisme.
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City planning --- Urban landscape architecture --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental aspects.
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City planning --- Urban landscape architecture --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental aspects.
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