In the Nature of Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Redaktion: Heynen, Nik; Swyngedouw, Erik; Kaika, Maria

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together the theoretical and empirical work of prominent urban scholars, this volume explores how interrelated economic, political and cultural everyday processes form and transform urban environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134206469
• Artikelnr.: 39179798

Autorenporträt

Nik Heynen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Maria Kaika is Lecturer in Urban Geography, at the University of Oxford and Erik Swyngedouw is a Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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