{"product_id":"the-natural-city-9781442611023","title":"The Natural City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This collection is excellent... All essays are engaging and thought provoking... Highly recommended.' -- P.L. Kantor Choice Magazine, vol 49:10:2012 'This collection seeks to bring fresh perspectives that will help conceptualize more sustainable cities for future... If you're interested in cities and environment, you'll find plenty that intrigues.' -- Tyrone Burke Canadian Geographic, June 2012 'The Natural City brings together essays on the thought-provoking topic of the \"natural city\"... It directs the conversation of environmental philosophy toward a new perspective on how culture and nature are interconnected.' -- Forrest Clingerman Environmental Philosophy; vol 9:02:2012 'This collection manages the challenge of discussing complicated concepts in clear language, successfully balancing a depth of analysis and accessibility of concepts...The Natural City starts the dialogue on reintegrating the natural with the urban; an essential topic for the survival of human and non-human alike.' -- Madison Van West, UnderCurrents Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, vol 18:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Foreword  Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating  the Terrain  I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical  Reflections * In Search of the Natural City -  Ingrid Leman Stefanovic* Can Cities Be Both Natural and  Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration - W.S.K.  Cameron* The \"Gruing\" of Cities - Frank  Cunningham*\"My Streets Are My Ideas of  Imagination\": Literature and the Theme of the Natural City - Peter Timmerman II. From the Stars to the Street:  Cosmological Perspectives * From Community to Communion:  The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective - Stephen Bede Scharper* Sailing to Byzantium: Nature  and City in the Greek East - Bruce V. Foltz* Dao in the City - Vincent Shen* Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary  Buddhist Approach - Kenneth Maly III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons:  Societal Implications * Gated Ecologies and Possible  Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City - Hilary Cunningham* Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology  and Urban Soundscapes - Richard Oddie* Ecofeminist \"Cityzenry\" - Trish  Glazebrook* Sustainable Urbanization - John  B. Cobb, Jr.*\"Troubled Nature: Some  Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India\" -  Shubhra Gururani IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on  Praxis * Urban Place as an Expression of  the Ancestors - Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwas* Seeing and Animating the City:  A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds - David Seamon* The City: A Legacy of  Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale - Robert Mugerauer* Natural Cities, Unnatural  Energy - Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav Kumar* Children and Nature in the City  - Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Conclusion","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408348782935,"sku":"9781442611023","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442611023.jpg?v=1730502543","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-natural-city-9781442611023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}