| Description |
xv, 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Learning from Detroit or the wrong kind of ruins / Christopher Woodward -- Appreciating urban wildscapes: towards a natural history of unnatural places / Paul H. Gobster -- Places to be wild in nature / Catharine Ward Thompson -- Playing in industrial ruins: interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance / Tim Edensor ... [et al.] -- Nature, nurture; danger, adventure; junkyard, paradise: the role of wildscapes in children's literature / Katy Mugford -- Brown coal, blue paradise: the restoration of opencast coal mines in Lusatia, Germany / Renée de Waal, Arjen de Wit -- Wildscape in Shanghai: a case study of the Houtan Wetland Park Expo 2010 Shanghai / Yichen Li -- Christiania Copenhagen a common out of the ordinary / Maria Hellström Reimer -- The River Don as a linear urban wildscape / Ian D. Rotherham -- Enhancing ruderal perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield: a new park on the bandit lands of urban green space dereliction / Marian Tylecote, Nigel Dunnett -- Pure urban nature: Nature-Park Südgelände Berlin / Andreas Langer -- Upstaging nature: art in Sydenham Hill Wood / Helen Morse Palmer -- Buried narratives / Catherine Heatherington -- Taming the wild: Gyllin's Garden and the urbanization of a wildscape / Mattias Qviström -- Disordering public space: urban wildscape processes in practice / Dougal Sheridan -- Anti-planning, anti-design? Exploring alternative ways of making future urban landscapes / Anna Jorgensen, Lilli Lĭcka |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Wilderness areas.
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Vacant lands.
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Abandoned buildings.
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| Author |
Jorgensen, Anna.
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Keenan, Richard.
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| LC no. |
2011002386 |
| ISBN |
9780415581059 (alk. paper) |
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0415581052 (alk. paper) |
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9780415581066 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0415581060 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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