Urban natures : living the more-than-human city /: living the more-than-human city. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen.
• Editors: Edwards, Ferne; Popartan, Lucia Alexandra; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad
• Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Key Terms; Acknowledgements Preface ; Ferne Edwards Introduction: Mapping the Multispecies City in Theory, Methods and Practice; Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen Part I: Making Visible Diverse Urban Natures Chapter 1. Life After Dark: Multispecies Encounters in the Nocturnal City; Nick Dunn Chapter 2. Making Urban Nature Visible (With a Focus on Insects); Ferne Edwards Chapter 3. Let the City Walls Go Wild: Finding Safety in Urban Edgelands; Hannah Cowan and Sam Knight Chapter 4. A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles; Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes Chapter 5. East End Jam: A Multi-Sensory Urban Foraging Artwork; Clare Qualmann and Amy Vogel Chapter 6. Illuminating the Worlds We Produce: A Reflexive Approach to Urban Natures Research; Lisa de Kleyn, Brian Coffey and Judy Bush Part II: (Re)Connecting Urban Natures Chapter 7. Layering Identity, Place and Be-longing Between Nature and Urbanity; Tracey M. Benson Chapter 8. A ‘Democracy of Compost’: Neo-materialist Encounters in Urban Spaces; Monique Wing and Emma L. Sharp Chapter 9. Caring for Foxes at a London Allotment: Tales from a Contested Interspecies Playground; Jan van Duppen Chapter 10. Relational Growing: Reimagining Contemporary Aboriginal Agriculture in Colonialized Cityscapes; Dominique Chen Chapter 11. ‘War on Weeds’: On Fighting and Caring for Native Nature in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand; Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer Chapter 12. Designing with Bees: Integrating More-than-Human Knowledges in Brussels’ Cityscapes; Jolein Bergers, Bruno Notteboom and Viviana d’Auria Part II: Politicizing Urban Natures Chapter 13. Reducing Vulnerability Through Gardening? The Mobilization of Urban Natures during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Port Vila, Vanuatu; Andrew McKenzie and Ginny Stein Chapter 14. ‘I don’t care about tomatoes’: Building Situated Urban Commons in Girona; Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Josep Pueyo, Enric Cassú, Richard Pointelin, Joana Castellar, Joaquim Comas Chapter 15. Urban Fog Oasis Conservation: Endangerment, Invasiones and Informal Urbanization in Lima; Chakad Ojani Chapter 16. Haunting Natures: The Politics of Green Reparations in Baltimore, MD; Mariya Shcheglovitova and John-Henry Pitas Chapter 17. Urban Trees as ‘Furniture’? The More-than-Human Politics of Moving Gothenburg’s Mature Trees; Mathilda Rosengren Chapter 18. ‘There’s a Strong Green Wind Blowing’. Drawing the Politics of Street Trees in Practice; Hanne Cecilie Geirbo and Ida Nilstad Pettersen Conclusion : Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Urban Natures; Ferne Edwards Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 307.1216; City planning -- Environmental aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781805390831
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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