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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often,(...)
Green city : people, nature and urban places
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"Green city : people, nature, and urban places" looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with nature — how well they’ve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and São Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.
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With "Edens lost & found", filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald a sea change in the relationship between ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and government. From across America they gather evidence of a new spirit of cooperation among neighbors, planners, architects and builders, city officials, and government agencies. Indeed, as urban issues have become(...)
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Edens lost and found : how ordinary citizens are restoring our great American cities
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With "Edens lost & found", filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald a sea change in the relationship between ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and government. From across America they gather evidence of a new spirit of cooperation among neighbors, planners, architects and builders, city officials, and government agencies. Indeed, as urban issues have become undeniably urgent problems that demand answers, people from disparate backgrounds and political leanings are joining forces to recast life in American cities. As citizens take action where government has failed, they are finding support, encouragement, and help from their neighbors. Conversely, as progressive-minded government agencies and organizations explore nontraditional solutions, an energized community rallies to the cause. Neither exclusively top-down, nor grass roots, we are in the midst of an unprecedented movement that unites efforts from every quarter in a common cause. Focusing on Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle-four cities that face vastly different challenges-"Edens lost & found" highlights the remarkable power of hope, pride, ingenuity, and chutzpah that characterize this era of collaboration. Bioengineering concepts-now increasingly understood by many to offer the most effective, cost-efficient solutions-are playing a central role. Working with-rather than in opposition to-nature is leading to such innovations as rooftop and urban gardens, restored parks, transformed vacant lots, the re-greening of city streets, and eco-friendly watershed management. Edens Lost & Found shows how working to reshape the land also transforms the relationships people have to one another.
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Inutile, libre, grand, généreux. Ce sont ces traits de l’ailante(? – Ailanthus altissima) que Zhuangzi évoquait pour illustrer sa philosophie Tao. Aujourd’hui, ces mêmes caractères sont reprochés aux spécimens de cette espèce qui évolue dans les régions tempérées de tous les continents. Simon Boudvin a suivi le développement d’une population d’ailantes pendant dix ans sur(...)
Ailanthus altissima : une monographie située de l'ailante
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Inutile, libre, grand, généreux. Ce sont ces traits de l’ailante(? – Ailanthus altissima) que Zhuangzi évoquait pour illustrer sa philosophie Tao. Aujourd’hui, ces mêmes caractères sont reprochés aux spécimens de cette espèce qui évolue dans les régions tempérées de tous les continents. Simon Boudvin a suivi le développement d’une population d’ailantes pendant dix ans sur un territoire de l’Est parisien, entre les communes de Bagnolet et Montreuil. Il partage ici un extrait de son relevé photographique, complété par le récit de l’histoire, des voyages, de l’intégration et du rejet de l’ailante dans nos sciences et cultures. Cette monographie située interroge notre capacité à accueillir l’apparition d’une forme de vie spontanée et à relâcher notre maîtrise exclusive sur l’espace de nos villes.
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La puissance projective
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Des contributions de chercheurs, d'étudiants, d'artistes et de professionnels qui étudient les liens entre imagination narrative, représentation et conceptions urbaine et paysagère. Cet ouvrage, qui s'appuie sur la théorie des chronotopes de Bakhtine et un dialogue transdisciplinaire, contient plusieurs cas d'études, du Saillant d'Ypres à Disneyland.
La puissance projective
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Des contributions de chercheurs, d'étudiants, d'artistes et de professionnels qui étudient les liens entre imagination narrative, représentation et conceptions urbaine et paysagère. Cet ouvrage, qui s'appuie sur la théorie des chronotopes de Bakhtine et un dialogue transdisciplinaire, contient plusieurs cas d'études, du Saillant d'Ypres à Disneyland.
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« Le développement sera durable s’il est désiré, la ville sera résiliente si les modes de vie changent et cela grâce aux nouveaux modes de ville. » Le paysagiste-concepteur Michel Pena explique comment rendre les villes plus désirables et vivables en prenant davantage en compte le paysage.
Changer de mode de vie
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« Le développement sera durable s’il est désiré, la ville sera résiliente si les modes de vie changent et cela grâce aux nouveaux modes de ville. » Le paysagiste-concepteur Michel Pena explique comment rendre les villes plus désirables et vivables en prenant davantage en compte le paysage.
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"Wild & the city" offers clues to read the current relationship between the Wild and the City from a critical perspective. On the one hand, this book explores the proactive value of wild landscapes to improve urban quality, in contemporary terms of beauty, health, and livability; on the other hand, it quesitons the risks of 'wild' as a buzzword that renews anti-urban(...)
Wild & the city: Landscape architecture for lush urbanism
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"Wild & the city" offers clues to read the current relationship between the Wild and the City from a critical perspective. On the one hand, this book explores the proactive value of wild landscapes to improve urban quality, in contemporary terms of beauty, health, and livability; on the other hand, it quesitons the risks of 'wild' as a buzzword that renews anti-urban positions or feeds practices and policies of consensual and cheap-plaudit 'greenery'. The aim is to account for the variety of readings raised by the urban wilderness, which continue to find their discriminating element in the restless relationship between city and nature.
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This publication looks at agricultural practices and the appropriation of space in the city of Porto, Portugal, and the different ways in which this phenomenon has manifested in the aftermath of the financial crisis 2011. The book recounts the stories of ten gardens and the people running them, who have resuscitated urban brownfield sites by growing fruit and vegetables(...)
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octobre 2021
Notes from the underdog: agriculture for subsistence in Porto
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This publication looks at agricultural practices and the appropriation of space in the city of Porto, Portugal, and the different ways in which this phenomenon has manifested in the aftermath of the financial crisis 2011. The book recounts the stories of ten gardens and the people running them, who have resuscitated urban brownfield sites by growing fruit and vegetables on them as a source of food. To achieve this end, they have developed infrastructures like watering and irrigation systems and methods of cultivation, recycling, and composting, while also building storage structures and producing their own tools. Although the gardens are primarily about people providing for themselves, they also lend themselves to recreation and leisure activities.
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For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. The new or restored gardens created by AKTC show how these urban oases are catalysts for positive economic, social and cultural change. They encourage ethical ideals of stewardship, ecology, and beauty in the built environment. Numerous authors first trace the history of Islamic gardens and help(...)
A sustainable future: Urban parks and gardens
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For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. The new or restored gardens created by AKTC show how these urban oases are catalysts for positive economic, social and cultural change. They encourage ethical ideals of stewardship, ecology, and beauty in the built environment. Numerous authors first trace the history of Islamic gardens and help clarify the environmental and design ethos of Islam. Texts also explain the beneficial sociological and economic impact of urban gardens and parks. Succeeding chapters identify thirteen specific projects that illustrate these principles. Each project demonstrates how green spaces bring people of different backgrounds together to provide places for reflection, spirituality, education and leisure. Together these achievements demonstrate how parks and gardens can enhance economic, cultural, and general well-being.
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As urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience, and adaptation, this publication invites readers to fully engage with the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban habitats. Ursula Lang uses the yard as a faceted lens through which to examine the multiple and contradictory ways people live in urban environments, and how perceptions of those(...)
Living with yards: negotiating nature and the habits of home
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As urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience, and adaptation, this publication invites readers to fully engage with the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban habitats. Ursula Lang uses the yard as a faceted lens through which to examine the multiple and contradictory ways people live in urban environments, and how perceptions of those environments are shaped by contemporary environmental policies and projects. Visual ethnography and narrative illustrate how inhabitants of Minneapolis live with their yards as sites of social and environmental care while also negotiating difference. Throughout, Lang’s subjects engage in diverse and creative everyday practices of cultivation and property ownership, often quite distinct from the environmental policies and projects in place.
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Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection(...)
Resilient city: landscape architecture for climate change
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Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.