Changing Representations of Nature and the City (eBook, PDF)

The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies
Redaktion: Gee, Gabriel N.; Vogelaar, Alison

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city from the turn of the 1960s/70s through today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134968336
• Artikelnr.: 56843354

Autorenporträt

Gabriel N. Gee is Assistant Professor in Art History at Franklin University, Switzerland. Alison Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: global cities, global nature (Gabriel Gee & Alison Vogelaar)
Part I: Forgotten Spaces 1. Beyond Narcissus: the sea and the metamorphosis
of port-cities in the late twentieth century (Gabriel N. Gee) 2. Bangkok
against its nature (Worrasit Tantinipankul) 3. Growing up in a Steel Mill:
a Conversation with Historian and Nature-lover Elmer J. Hall (Michelle L.
Stefano) 4. Looking beyond the image of 'the wasteland': Newark, New Jersey
(Lori M. Gibbs) Part II: Artificial Spaces 5. Passages: From Artificial
Animal to Planetary Man (Paolo Perulli) 6. Luigi Ghirri: the theatre of
landscape (Giuliano Sergio) 7. Nature, plastic, artifice: in conversation
with Tuula Närhinen (Tuula Närhinen & Gabriel Gee) 8. Naturally
Representative: the Environmental Planning of the New African Capitals
Abuja and Dodoma (Ayala Levin) 9. Grey, Green, Gold (Uriel Orlow) Part III:
Interstitial Spaces 10. Reyner Banham's Desert Landscapes 11. (Eliana Sousa
Santos) 12. 'Nature' in interstice: reflections on China's "Obscure Poetry"
in the 1970s (Jundan Zhang) 13. The Green Corridor: a vision for Lisbon
(Maria Joao Matos) 14. Weather, science & cinema: in conversation with
Conor McFeely (Conor McFeely & Gabriel Gee) 15. The Postcolonial Garden
City? Changing Representations of Nature in Christchurch, New Zealand
(Alison Vogelaar and Brack Hale)