Grounding urban natures :

Grounding urban natures : histories and futures of urban ecologies / edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin. - xiii, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm - Urban and industrial environments .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward comparative environmental urbanism : the discovery of urban natures in a "world of cities" /​ Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sorlin
The disappearing river : infrastructural desire in New Orleans /​ Joshua Lewis
Natures remade and imagined : "world city" beautifying and real-estate reclaiming in Lagos /​ Lindsay Sawyer
Landscape literacy and design for ecological democracy : the nature of Mill Creek, Philadelphia /​ Anne Whiston Spirn
Realms of exposure : design and the making of more-than-human ecologies in Cordoba, Argentina /​ Martín Ávila and Henrik Ernstson
Nature's popular metropolis : the greening ofthe San Francisco Bay Area /​ Richard A. Walker
Invasion and citizen mobilization : urban natures in Dalian, China /​ Lisa M. Hoffman
Urban nature and its publics : shades of green in the remaking of Delhi /​ Amita Baviskar
Regimes of urban nature : organic urbanism, biotope protection, and civic gardening in Berlin /​ Jens Lachmund
Elbows over the fence : Rondevlei and the invention of community-based conservation in apartheid Cape Town /​ Lance van Sittert
Ecology in the urban century : power, place and the abstraction of nature in Baltimore /​ James Evans
Re-figuring the rural : eco-urbanization in Yixing City, China /​ Jia-Ching Chen
Grounding and worlding urban natures : configuring an urban ecology knowledge project /​ Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin

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Urban ecology (Sociology)--Case studies.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Case studies.

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