Natura Urbana
Ecological Constellations in Urban Space
$74.73
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
21 May 2024
Summary
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.
Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The “other nature” that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours of metropolitan nature, is not the poor relation of rural flora and fauna. Indeed, these …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551335 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551330 |
| Author: | Matthew Gandy |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 21 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Drawing on decades of work and observation, especially in Berlin and London, and on a vast, almost spiralling, and beautifully connected theoretical framework assembled from a thought landscape that includes neo-Marxism, feminism, posthumanism and postcolonialism, Gandy seeks a ‘critical synthesis between different strands of urban ecology and a variety of other postpositivist theoretical developments.’”
–Henriette Steiner, Journal of Urban Design
“Natura Urbana is a tour de force. It eschews the typical characteristics of academic monographs in a refreshing, dialectical, and original manner.”–New Global Studies
About The Author
Matthew Gandy
Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and the author of Concrete and Clay and The Fabric of Space, both published by the MIT Press.
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