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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Nature and the city"”.
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Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000
"Nature" and "the city," as historical and practical ideas, have a complicated relationship in the human mind. In North America, since at least the seventeenth century, enduring contradictions have existed between visions of urban ecology in ideal and crisis terms, as well as between …
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The inter-relationship of nature and built form in an urban context
How does one mediate between nature and the city as development continues to arise out of necessity? What is the significance of the connection between nature and city and how can they be articulated? What is the relationship between architecture and nature in the context of densely settled area? …
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Three bridges and a river
The rapid urbanization of Asia in recent years has radically transformed cities through the incessant barrage of the man-made into the natural. These immense changes are particularly evident in the nation of Singapore where for decades, modernization, urban renewal and industrialization have been …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
This thesis approaches the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. <br/><br/>Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as …
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Plants, food and the repurposing of urban nature: the geographies of foraging and landscape in London
… common sight in London is people seeking out and collecting the uncultivated, unattended and altogether unintended plants growing wild in the multifarious spaces of the city. “Urban foraging”, as it has been termed and observed in other geographies, can be read as a reflection of various …