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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the(...)
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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the(...)
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Brooklyn bridge park: a dying waterfront transformed
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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the twenty-first century. Brooklyn Bridge Park unravels the many obstacles faced during the development of the park and suggests solutions that can be applied to important economic and planning issues around the world.
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Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors andstoried skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public use that is both a reflection and an engine of Brooklyn's resurgence in the twenty-first century. Brooklyn Bridge Park unravels the many obstacles faced during the development of the park and suggests solutions that can be applied to important economic and planning issues around the world.
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September 2016
September 2016
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Urban Landscapes
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Cette collection d'extraordinaires projets d'espaces publics est un très bon tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la conception urbaine. A l'image du jardin de pierre où les enfants sont invités à jouer avec cet intriguant terrain créé par les portes d'embarquement tirées tout droit d'un pavillon d'aéroport, chaque projet peut être exploré grâce aux photographies(...)
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Cette collection d'extraordinaires projets d'espaces publics est un très bon tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la conception urbaine. A l'image du jardin de pierre où les enfants sont invités à jouer avec cet intriguant terrain créé par les portes d'embarquement tirées tout droit d'un pavillon d'aéroport, chaque projet peut être exploré grâce aux photographies(...)
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Espaces publiques: Places contemporaines
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Cette collection d'extraordinaires projets d'espaces publics est un très bon tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la conception urbaine. A l'image du jardin de pierre où les enfants sont invités à jouer avec cet intriguant terrain créé par les portes d'embarquement tirées tout droit d'un pavillon d'aéroport, chaque projet peut être exploré grâce aux photographies couleurs, croquis, plans, et commentaires. Les nouvelles formes d'existence sociale ont données lieu à une augmentation de l'intérêt porté sur la définition de l'espace urbain. Nos villes ont dors et déjà passées la limite qui divise les espaces habitables et les lieux de vie, il devient difficile de concevoir un bon plan de développement urbain qui ne contienne pas une bonne conception des espaces publics qui en font partis. Ce volume a rassemblé 20 des meilleurs exemples de conception d'espaces urbains marqués du tampon indélébile des professionnels les plus connus internationalement. Chacun d'entre eux est documenté par de somptueuses photographies couleurs, et de dessins qui permettent de capturer l'ensemble de la complexité du projet, de ses ressources techniques et de ses innovations esthétiques. Ce livre, qui est le fruit d'une profonde étude de cas deviendra sans aucun doute un ouvrage de référence de grande valeur pour tous les architectes, les designers urbains et les étudiants à la recherche des dernières tendances qui ont lieu dans le champ de la conception d'espaces urbains.
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Cette collection d'extraordinaires projets d'espaces publics est un très bon tour d'horizon des tendances actuelles de la conception urbaine. A l'image du jardin de pierre où les enfants sont invités à jouer avec cet intriguant terrain créé par les portes d'embarquement tirées tout droit d'un pavillon d'aéroport, chaque projet peut être exploré grâce aux photographies couleurs, croquis, plans, et commentaires. Les nouvelles formes d'existence sociale ont données lieu à une augmentation de l'intérêt porté sur la définition de l'espace urbain. Nos villes ont dors et déjà passées la limite qui divise les espaces habitables et les lieux de vie, il devient difficile de concevoir un bon plan de développement urbain qui ne contienne pas une bonne conception des espaces publics qui en font partis. Ce volume a rassemblé 20 des meilleurs exemples de conception d'espaces urbains marqués du tampon indélébile des professionnels les plus connus internationalement. Chacun d'entre eux est documenté par de somptueuses photographies couleurs, et de dessins qui permettent de capturer l'ensemble de la complexité du projet, de ses ressources techniques et de ses innovations esthétiques. Ce livre, qui est le fruit d'une profonde étude de cas deviendra sans aucun doute un ouvrage de référence de grande valeur pour tous les architectes, les designers urbains et les étudiants à la recherche des dernières tendances qui ont lieu dans le champ de la conception d'espaces urbains.
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January 1900, Barcelona
January 1900, Barcelona
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to(...)
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to(...)
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Guerrilla gardening : a manualfesto
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence - one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around.
Guerrilla gardening : a manualfesto
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence - one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around.
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April 2007, Gabriola Island
April 2007, Gabriola Island
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Leisure has a huge impact on European landscapes. Contemporary Western life has given rise to all sorts of mobilities, flexibilities and incentives that fuel the sometimes dramatic changes in the landscape we are witnessing today. Can the relationship between leisure and landscape be a productive one and, if so, under what conditions? This complex relationship was the(...)
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Leisure has a huge impact on European landscapes. Contemporary Western life has given rise to all sorts of mobilities, flexibilities and incentives that fuel the sometimes dramatic changes in the landscape we are witnessing today. Can the relationship between leisure and landscape be a productive one and, if so, under what conditions? This complex relationship was the(...)
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June 2008, Amsterdam
June 2008, Amsterdam
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Greetings from Europe: landscape & leisure
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Leisure has a huge impact on European landscapes. Contemporary Western life has given rise to all sorts of mobilities, flexibilities and incentives that fuel the sometimes dramatic changes in the landscape we are witnessing today. Can the relationship between leisure and landscape be a productive one and, if so, under what conditions? This complex relationship was the subject of a European project, instigated by Dirk Sijmons, Dutch Government Advisor on Landscape, involving thirty universities from twenty countries. This book presents the resulting design proposals in facts, figures, essays, illustrations, bibliography, maps, and photography by Martin Parr.
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Leisure has a huge impact on European landscapes. Contemporary Western life has given rise to all sorts of mobilities, flexibilities and incentives that fuel the sometimes dramatic changes in the landscape we are witnessing today. Can the relationship between leisure and landscape be a productive one and, if so, under what conditions? This complex relationship was the subject of a European project, instigated by Dirk Sijmons, Dutch Government Advisor on Landscape, involving thirty universities from twenty countries. This book presents the resulting design proposals in facts, figures, essays, illustrations, bibliography, maps, and photography by Martin Parr.
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June 2008, Amsterdam
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Garden cities of to-morrow
Garden cities of to-morrow
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Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and reissued in 1902 under its present title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow holds a unique place in town planning literature. The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that have had a profound influence on practical urban development around the world. The book was also responsible for(...)
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Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and reissued in 1902 under its present title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow holds a unique place in town planning literature. The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that have had a profound influence on practical urban development around the world. The book was also responsible for(...)
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Garden cities of to-morrow
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Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and reissued in 1902 under its present title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow holds a unique place in town planning literature. The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that have had a profound influence on practical urban development around the world. The book was also responsible for the introduction of the term Garden City, and set into motion ideas that helped transform town planning.
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Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform and reissued in 1902 under its present title, Garden Cities of To-Morrow holds a unique place in town planning literature. The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that have had a profound influence on practical urban development around the world. The book was also responsible for the introduction of the term Garden City, and set into motion ideas that helped transform town planning.
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January 1965, Cambridge
January 1965, Cambridge
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Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et(...)
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Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et(...)
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Les ghat de Bénarès : Variations architecturales d'une rive sacrée
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Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et religieux où l’accès à l’eau est primordial. En s’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain approfondie, sur de nombreux relevés architecturaux et sur une série de panoramas datant du 18e et du 19e siècles, Savitri Jalais interroge les éléments qui ont concouru à la naissance et au développement de ce front d’eau sur le temps long. À travers l’analyse des formes et techniques de construction employées dans le but de résister aux contraintes exercées par l’eau, l’auteure retrace le dialogue pluriséculaire qui s’est établi entre la géographie des lieux et le paysage urbain et révèle le potentiel urbanistique de ces berges en gradins et leur pertinence quant aux pratiques quotidiennes des habitants et des pèlerins.
Les ghat de Bénarès : Variations architecturales d'une rive sacrée
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Les ghat de Bénarès forment un ensemble de constructions ingénieuses et modulables, qui se déploie de façon monumentale sur la rive concave d’un méandre du Gange. Ce site exceptionnel, constituant un espace public de plus de six kilomètres, matérialise la relation étroite qui lie les habitants de la ville et les pèlerins au fleuve sacré, dans un contexte culturel et religieux où l’accès à l’eau est primordial. En s’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain approfondie, sur de nombreux relevés architecturaux et sur une série de panoramas datant du 18e et du 19e siècles, Savitri Jalais interroge les éléments qui ont concouru à la naissance et au développement de ce front d’eau sur le temps long. À travers l’analyse des formes et techniques de construction employées dans le but de résister aux contraintes exercées par l’eau, l’auteure retrace le dialogue pluriséculaire qui s’est établi entre la géographie des lieux et le paysage urbain et révèle le potentiel urbanistique de ces berges en gradins et leur pertinence quant aux pratiques quotidiennes des habitants et des pèlerins.
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July 2022
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Bêtes de villes
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L’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit et original des animaux peuplant nos villes. Une manière de nous reconnecter au vivant, pour dessiner de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville de demain avec le génie animal. La moule zébrée va-t-elle sauver New York ? Le scorpion terroriser les habitants de São Paulo ? Les kangourous s’ébattre(...)
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L’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit et original des animaux peuplant nos villes. Une manière de nous reconnecter au vivant, pour dessiner de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville de demain avec le génie animal. La moule zébrée va-t-elle sauver New York ? Le scorpion terroriser les habitants de São Paulo ? Les kangourous s’ébattre(...)
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Bêtes de villes
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L’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit et original des animaux peuplant nos villes. Une manière de nous reconnecter au vivant, pour dessiner de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville de demain avec le génie animal. La moule zébrée va-t-elle sauver New York ? Le scorpion terroriser les habitants de São Paulo ? Les kangourous s’ébattre dans la forêt de Rambouillet ? Savions-nous seulement que ces bêtes vivaient si près de chez nous ? En pleine crise de la biodiversité, nos villes semblent devenir des jungles hybrides où se croisent plus de créatures que dans nos forêts. Certaines ont muté, leurs comportements se sont transformés. La souris de Brooklyn résiste aux polluants lourds, l’escargot d’Amsterdam combat l’îlot de chaleur urbain, l’hirondelle de la Côte Est réduit sa voilure pour éviter les gratte-ciels. Au travers de 1 001 histoires de bêtes de villes, l’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit de nos territoires et nous incite à nous reconnecter au vivant. En chemin, il dessine de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville avec le génie animal. À l’évidence, observer des bêtes, ça rend intelligent.
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L’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit et original des animaux peuplant nos villes. Une manière de nous reconnecter au vivant, pour dessiner de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville de demain avec le génie animal. La moule zébrée va-t-elle sauver New York ? Le scorpion terroriser les habitants de São Paulo ? Les kangourous s’ébattre dans la forêt de Rambouillet ? Savions-nous seulement que ces bêtes vivaient si près de chez nous ? En pleine crise de la biodiversité, nos villes semblent devenir des jungles hybrides où se croisent plus de créatures que dans nos forêts. Certaines ont muté, leurs comportements se sont transformés. La souris de Brooklyn résiste aux polluants lourds, l’escargot d’Amsterdam combat l’îlot de chaleur urbain, l’hirondelle de la Côte Est réduit sa voilure pour éviter les gratte-ciels. Au travers de 1 001 histoires de bêtes de villes, l’architecte Nicolas Gilsoul nous offre un bestiaire érudit de nos territoires et nous incite à nous reconnecter au vivant. En chemin, il dessine de nouvelles perspectives sur l’art de concevoir la ville avec le génie animal. À l’évidence, observer des bêtes, ça rend intelligent.
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March 2022
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City parks
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This illustrated book tells the fascinating stories of fifty of the world’s most interesting and innovative parks and the people who use them. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what city dwellers already realized: parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. Featured here are the storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London (and(...)
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This illustrated book tells the fascinating stories of fifty of the world’s most interesting and innovative parks and the people who use them. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what city dwellers already realized: parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. Featured here are the storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London (and(...)
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City parks
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This illustrated book tells the fascinating stories of fifty of the world’s most interesting and innovative parks and the people who use them. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what city dwellers already realized: parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. Featured here are the storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London (and Sydney!). But the book also takes us to the Philippines and Australia and around the world to showcase the most historic and most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge parks that mix the best of nature and architecture.The book explores what can be found in the parks, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments.
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This illustrated book tells the fascinating stories of fifty of the world’s most interesting and innovative parks and the people who use them. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what city dwellers already realized: parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. Featured here are the storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London (and Sydney!). But the book also takes us to the Philippines and Australia and around the world to showcase the most historic and most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge parks that mix the best of nature and architecture.The book explores what can be found in the parks, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments.
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a(...)
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a(...)
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Urban rivers: remaking rivers, cities, and space in Europe and North America
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
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Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present.
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April 2012
April 2012
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Crabgrass crucible: suburban nature and the rise of environmentalism in twintieth-century America
Crabgrass crucible: suburban nature and the rise of environmentalism in twintieth-century America
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Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the(...)
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Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the(...)
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Crabgrass crucible: suburban nature and the rise of environmentalism in twintieth-century America
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Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent.
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Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent.
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April 2012
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