In the Nature of Cities : Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

ISBN-13: 9780415368278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

Erik Swyngedouw; E. Swyngedouw; Erik Swyngedouw

Opis

The importance of the social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an area of importance with academic realms. "In the Nature of Cities" provides an integrated and relational approach that helps to untangle the interconnected economic, political and social processes that go together to form urban landscapes. This volume draws together prominent urban scholars to critically examine how economic, political, cultural processes affect urban environments. Contributions incorporate both new theoretical discussions about the social production while also supporting ideas with empirical research from the US, UK, Europe, Central and South America. The groundbreaking collection will continue to progress knowledge within the realm of human/environment relations, but explicitly with regard to urban areas.

Spis treści

Forward Part 1: The Production of Urban Natures and Urban Political Ecology 1. Introduction 2. Sylvan City 3. Urbanizing Political Ecology Part 2: Urban Metabolisms 4. Circulations and Metabolism 5. The Desire to Metabolize Nature 6. Cyborg Urbanization 7. Monuments, Medians and Metabolims 8 Clogging up the City 9. Urban Metabolism as Target Part 3: The Ecology of Urban Politics 10. Transnational Alliances and Global Politics 11. Constructing Scarcity and Sensationalising Water Politics 12. Dead Spaces in the City of Extremes 13. Reconnecting with the Means of Existence in Durban 14. Looking at the Public/Private Water Debate in South Africa Through the Prism of an Urban Political Ecology Framework 15. Turfgrass Subjects 16. At the Edge Conclusions and the Way Forward