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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Nature of cities. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607353909 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Bennett; David W Teague |
| ISBN: | 0816519471 9780816519477 0816519498 9780816519491 |
| OCLC Number: | 41039745 |
| Description: | vi, 311 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Urban ecocriticism: an introduction / Michael Bennett and David W. Teague -- The social claim on urban ecology / Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) -- London here and now: walking, streets, and urban environments in English poetry from Donne to Gay / Gary Roberts -- "All things natural are strange": Audre Lorde, urban nature, and cultural place / Kathleen R. Wallace -- Inculcating wildness: ecocomposition, nature writing, and the regreening of the American suburb / Terrell Dixon -- Writers and dilettantes: Central Park and the literary origins of Antebellum urban nature / Adam W. Sweeting -- Postindustrial park or bourgeois playground? preservation and urban restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park / Richard Heyman -- Boyz in the woods: urban wilderness in American cinema / Andrew Light -- Central High and the suburban landscape: the ecology of white flight / David W. Teague -- Manufacturing the ghetto: anti-urbanism and the spatialization of race / Michael Bennett -- An ecofeminist perspective on the urban environment / Catherine Villanueva Gardner -- "You make me feel like a natural woman": the political economy of contemporary cosmetics discourse / Laura L. Sullivan --Darwin's city, or Life underground: evolution, progress, and the shapes of things to come / Joanne Gottlieb -- Nature in the apartment: humans, pets, and the value of incommensurability / David R. Shumway -- Cosmology in the casino: simulacra of nature in the interiorized wilderness / Michael P. Branch. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michael Bennett and David W. Teague. |
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