Urban wildscapes / edited by Anna Jorgensen and Richard Keenan
- Bib ID:
- 5754806
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2012
- xv, 252 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780415581059
- 0415581052
- 9780415581066
- 0415581060
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 THEORIZING WILDSCAPES
- 1.Learning from Detroit or `the wrong kind of ruins' / Christopher Woodward
- 2.Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places / Paul H. Gobster
- 3.Places to be wild in nature / Catharine Ward Thompson
- 4.Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance / Tim Edensor [et al.]
- 5.Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature / Katy Mugford
- pt. 2 WILDSCAPE CASE STUDIES
- 6.Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany / Renée De Waal and Arjen De Wit
- 7.Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Parkm - Expo 2010 Shanghai / Yichen Li
- 8.Christiania Copenhagen: a common out of the ordinary / Maria Hellström Reimer
- 9.The River Don as a linear urban wildscape / Ian D. Rotherham
- Contents note continued: 10.Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the `bandit lands' of urban green space dereliction / Marian Tylecote and Nigel Dunnett
- 11.Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Südgelände, Berlin / Andreas Langer
- 12.Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood / Helen Morse Palmer
- pt. 3 IMPLICATIONS FOR WILDSCAPE PRACTICE
- 13.Buried narratives / Catherine Heatherington
- 14.Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape / Mattias Qviström
- 15.Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice / Dougal Sheridan
- 16.Anti-planning, anti-design?: exploring alternative ways of making future urban landscapes / Lilli Lička.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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