Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

Green Sprawl
Herausgeber: Cadieux, K. Valentine; Taylor, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape-of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace-and where many of the central features of exurbia-very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing-contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction-to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization-gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780415637152
• ISBN-10: 0415637155
• Artikelnr.: 35562111

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Valentine Cadieux is a Research Associate in the Departments of Sociology and Geography, Society and Environment at the University of Minnesota. Laura Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Sprawl and the Ideology of Nature Laura Taylor and Kirsten
Valentine Cadieux 2. Bridges in the Cultural Landscape: Crossing Nature in
Exurbia Laura Taylor 3. Exurbia Meets Nature: Environmental Ideals for a
Rootless Society Richard Judd 4. Airworld, the Genius Loci of Exurbia
Andrew Blum 5. Rewilding Walden Woods and Reworking Exurban Woodlands:
Higher Uses in Thoreau Country Brian Donahue 6. Sojourning in Nature: The
Second-Home Exurban Landscapes of Ontario's Near North Nik Luka 7. Design
and Conservation in Québec City's Rural-Urban Fringe: The Case of
Lac-Beauport Geneviève Vachon and David Paradis 8. Time, Place, and
Structure: Typo-Morphological Analysis of Three Calgary Neighborhoods Bev
Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai 9. The Imagined Landscape: Language, Metaphor,
and the Environmental Movement Thomas Looker 10. The Mortality of Trees in
Exurbia's Pastoral Modernity: Challenging Conservation Practices to Move
Beyond Deferring Dialogue About the Meanings and Values of Environments
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux Editors' Epilogue: An Agenda for Addressing Green
Sprawl Laura Taylor and Kirsten Valentine Cadieux