TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angelo,Hillary
TI  - How green became good: urbanized nature and the making of cities and citizens 
SN  - 9780226739045
AV  - SB486.S65 A544 2021
U1  - 333.783 ANG 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Urban parks
KW  - Public spaces
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Nature and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Urban Greening beyond Cities -- Green Becomes Good -- The Imaginative Turn to the City -- Building an Urban Future through Nature -- Contested Social Ideals -- The Space-Time of Democracy: Parks as a Bourgeois Public Sphere -- Proletarian Counterpublics: Reimagining the Colonies -- The Social Life of Urbanized Nature -- Producing Nature, Projecting Urban Futures -- Experiencing Nature as a Public Good -- Conclusion: Global Greening Today
N2  - "As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, and Atlanta's Beltline show, major cities are devoting serious resources to cultivating urban green spaces. These formerly neglected urban spaces now draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are these greening projects so widely taken up, and what good do they do? In How Green Became Good,Hillary Angelo uncovers the origins and meanings of the enduring appeal of urban green spaces, showing that city planners have long thought that creating green spaces would lead to social improvements. Turning to Germany's Ruhr valley (a region that, despite its ample open space, was "greened" with the addition of official park and gardens), Angelo shows that greening is as much a social process as a physical one. She turns to three distinct moments in the twentieth-century Ruhr valley's history that inspired the creation of new green spaces: industrialization that took hold in the early twentieth century, the new democratic ideals of the 1960s, and industrial decline beginning in the early 1990s.Across these distinct historical moments, Angelo shows that the impulse to create green space has persistently arisen as a response to a host of social changes. Ultimately, however, the creation of urban green space is more about how we imagine social life than about the good it imparts. Instead, the impulse to bring nature into urban life reveals an enduring conviction that green space will transform us into ideal citizens in an ideal society"--
ER  -