ISBN:
90-04-29936-X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (216 p.)
Series Statement:
Studies in Environmental Humanities, Volume 2
Series Statement:
Studies in environmental humanities ;
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmentalism Social aspects.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Public spaces.
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Environmental policy.
Abstract:
Spaces in-between goes beyond the emphasis on externalities signalled by the term ‘environment’ to address the isolation of modern technological culture from nature. Solutions require more than an awareness of ‘natural surroundings’ and human destructiveness. We think in terms of the re-conceptualization, re-design and re-negotiation of space. The book is concerned with social practices, belief systems, urban designs, the organization and representation of landscapes and modes of living. These aspects of ‘spatiality’ suggest how to conceive and practice the intermingling of nature and culture and how to develop public commitment to such practices. In the process we show how concern for the environment as an aspect of space helps us to reconceive and reinterpret what it means to be human.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary material /
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Reconsidering Environment: Spatial Contexts and the Development of the Environmental Humanities /
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Strindberg’s Modern Ecological Subject: “Swedish Nature” Viewed from a Train /
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The Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun /
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A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place /
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Hannah Arendt on Transcendence in the Public Sphere /
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City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town /
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Allotment and Community Gardens: Commons in German Cities /
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Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth /
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Reconstituting the Geographical Place: The Design of Public Spaces of Exception in the Contemporary City (the Case of the City Park Waterfront Project in Porto) /
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Living in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities /
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Medieval Green Cities: Thirdspace and the Challenge of History /
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Index /
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English
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