Urban wildscapes / edited by Anna Jorgensen , Richard Keenan

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2012. Oxon:Description: xv,: 252 pISBN:

9780415581066

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DDC classification:

307.76 URB

Contents:

Foreword - The Wild Side of Town Chris Baines Introduction Anna Jorgensen -- Part 1 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, Bethan Evans, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Jon Binnie-- 5. Nature, Nurture; Danger, Adventure; Junkyard, Paradise:The Role of Wildscapes in Children’s Literature Katy Mugford -- Part 2 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 Park – 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-- 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-- Part 3 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 Anna Jorgensen and Lilli Lička

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB E-2	Non Fiction	307.76 URB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008574

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Digital talbok (DAISY 2.02), text och ljud.
Elektronisk version av: London : Routledge, 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-58106-6, 0-415-58106-0 (genererat).
Speltid: 11 tim., 48 min. : mono; 252 s. : ill.
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Foreword - The Wild Side of Town Chris Baines Introduction Anna Jorgensen --
Part 1 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, Bethan Evans, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Jon Binnie--
5. Nature, Nurture; Danger, Adventure; Junkyard, Paradise:The Role of Wildscapes in Children’s Literature Katy Mugford --
Part 2 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 Park – 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--
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--
Part 3 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 Anna Jorgensen and Lilli Lička

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