In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Heynen, Nik, 1973- (επιμελητής.), Kaika, Maria (επιμελήτρια.), Swyngedouw, E. (Erik) (επιμελητής.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
• Σειρά: Questioning cities series
• Θέματα: Αστική οικολογία; Ανθρώπινη οικολογία

 "The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social, political, and economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what constitutes the ‘urban’ or the ‘natural’. Through both theoretical and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes. The essays in this book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place. Including urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies to better understand how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments."- 

 Urban political ecology : politicizing the production of urban natures / Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw -- Metabolic urbanization : the making of cyborg cites / Erik Swyngedouw -- Metropolitics and metabolics : rolling out environmentalism in Toronto / Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Urban nature and the ecological imaginary / Matthew Gandy -- Nature's carnival : the ecology of pleasure at Coney Island / Eliza Darling -- The desire to metabolize nature : Edward Loveden Loveden, William Vanderstegen, and the disciplining of the river Thames / Stuart Oliver -- Turfgrass subjects : the political economy of urban monoculture / Paul Robbins and Julie Sharp -- Justice of eating in the city : the political ecology of urban hunger / Nik Heynen -- Metabolism of obe-city : flows of fat through bodies, cities and sewers / Simon Marvin and Will Medd -- The political ecology of water scarcity : the 1989-1991 Athenian drought / Maria Kaika -- The metabolic processes of capital accumulation in Durban's waterscape / Alex Loftus -- The public/private conundrum of urban water : a view from South Africa / Laila Smith and Greg Ruiters -- Inherited fragmentations and naratives of environmental control in entrepreneurial Philadelphia / Alec Brownlow -- Transnational alliances and global politics : new geographies of urban environmental justice struggles / David N. Pellow -- Urban metabolism as target : contemporary war as forced demodernization / Stephen Graham.