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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia - Green Sprawl (Hardcover, New)
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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia - Green Sprawl (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing
urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential
development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for
"nature" brings residents deeper into the world from which they are
imagining their escape-of Federal Express, technologically mediated
communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the
global marketplace-and where many of the central features of
exurbia-very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and
conversion of forested or rural land for housing-contribute to the
very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of
exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this
contradiction-to live in the green landscape, and to protect the
green landscape from urbanization-gets caught up and represented in
the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes
and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.
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