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…mehr
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.
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a professor and dean emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University. Stephen Bede Scharper is an associate professor with the Centre for the Environment and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the Terrain I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections 1. In Search of the Natural City - Ingrid Leman Stefanovic 2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration - W.S.K. Cameron 3. The “Gruing” of Cities - Frank Cunningham 4. “My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City - Peter Timmerman II. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives 1. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective - Stephen Bede Scharper 2. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East - Bruce V. Foltz 3. Dao in the City - Vincent Shen 4. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach - Kenneth Maly III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications 5. Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City - Hilary Cunningham 6. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes - Richard Oddie 7. Ecofeminist “Cityzenry” - Trish Glazebrook 8. Sustainable Urbanization - John B. Cobb, Jr. 9. “Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” - Shubhra Gururani IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis 10. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors - Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwas 11. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds - David Seamon 12. The City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale - Robert Mugerauer 13. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy - Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav Kumar 14. Children and Nature in the City - Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Conclusion
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the Terrain I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections 1. In Search of the Natural City - Ingrid Leman Stefanovic 2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration - W.S.K. Cameron 3. The “Gruing” of Cities - Frank Cunningham 4. “My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City - Peter Timmerman II. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives 1. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective - Stephen Bede Scharper 2. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East - Bruce V. Foltz 3. Dao in the City - Vincent Shen 4. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach - Kenneth Maly III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications 5. Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City - Hilary Cunningham 6. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes - Richard Oddie 7. Ecofeminist “Cityzenry” - Trish Glazebrook 8. Sustainable Urbanization - John B. Cobb, Jr. 9. “Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” - Shubhra Gururani IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis 10. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors - Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwas 11. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds - David Seamon 12. The City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale - Robert Mugerauer 13. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy - Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav Kumar 14. Children and Nature in the City - Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Conclusion
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