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Paradoxes of Green - Landscapes of a City-State (Paperback)
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Paradoxes of Green - Landscapes of a City-State (Paperback)
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This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of
green from multiple perspectives-aesthetic, architectural,
environmental, political, and social-in the Kingdom of Bahrain,
where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling,
productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and
hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a
counter to gray urban environments, green has not always been good
for cities. Similarly, manifestation of the color green in arid
urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of
green from an environmental point of view. This paradox is at the
heart of the book. In arid environments such as Bahrain, the
contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on
long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the
landscapes of Bahrain, where green represents a plethora of
implicit human values and exists in dialectical tension with other
culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues.
Explicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and
object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green
becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place.
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