Urban wildscapes

Jorgensen, Anna / Keenan, Richard C.

2012

xv, 252 p.

25 cm
ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.)
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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 Lic̆ka

0415581052 , 0415581060 , 9780415581059 , 9780415581066

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Gewerbebrache , Öffentlicher Raum , Ruine , Stadtökologie , Brache , Stadt , Grünbrache Abandoned buildings , Wilderness areas , Urban ecology (Sociology) , Vacant lands

BKL:  42.97 Ökologie: Sonstiges / 74.77 Landschaftsplanung, Landschaftspflege / 74.72 Stadtplanung, kommunale Planung
RVK:  LB 73000 / LB 70000
DDC:  307.76