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The Natural City
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
- 356 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cultivating the Terrain
- I: Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections
- 1. In Search of the Natural City
- 2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations
- 3. The âGruingâ of Cities
- 4. âMy Streets Are My Ideas of Imaginationâ: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City
- II: From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives
- 5. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective
- 6. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East
- 7. Dao in the City
- 8. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist
- III: Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications
- 9. Gated Ecologies and âPossible Urban Worldsâ: From the Global City to the Natural City
- 10. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes
- 11. Ecofeminist âCityzenryâ
- 12. Sustainable Urbanization
- 13. âTroubled Natureâ: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City, Gurgaon, India
- IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis
- 14. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors
- 15. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds
- 16. The City: A Legacy of Organism-Environment Interaction at Every Scale
- 17. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy?
- 18. Children and Nature in the City
- Conclusion
- Contributors