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The question of how environmental awareness originated and
developed has been subject to sharply contesting points of view.
Recently the debate has been expressed epistemologically in
constructivist versus materialist approaches. In this book, Mark
Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting
the rise of environmental awareness in the political and
geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the
categorical development of space - social, territorial and
conceptual - the book examines the forces that drove people to
ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and by
assiduously advancing the dissolution of social bonds. Thus beneath
the question of the surround, and the key to its renewal today, is
the quest to re-engage the common. The latter is still a part of
the approach to space, its arrangement and disposition, and has a
necessary environmental dimension.Concepts of urbanism, place
identity, picturesque landscape and nature are part of a larger
Western intellectual and cultural context but, by examining the
imaging of cities and landscape, Luccarelli links particular
American geographic settings - as well as the political ideals and
practices of the republic - to the application and aesthetic
reading of these ideas. The advocates of these various perspectives
shared an aesthetic orientation as a means of redefining or
recovering the common. The book looks at various American urban and
regional contexts, as well as the work of artists, writers and
public figures, including painter and engraver William Birch,
Thomas Jefferson, engraver John Hill, Henry David Thoreau and
Frederick Law Olmsted. Luccarelli embeds his environmental study in
the works of these men and in the course of American history
between the planting of the city of Philadelphia and the
establishment of Olmsted's major urban parks.
As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel
dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking
initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more
sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to
evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use.
Focusing on Oslo, an early leader in urban environmental policy
making and a European 'green city' award winner, it argues that
this evaluation must adopt and integrate two approaches: firstly,
as a process of ecological modernization based on a combination of
transit, densification, and mixed use development and secondly, as
an opportunity to reconsider the character and substance of the
built environment as a reflection of natural values, landscapes and
natural resources of the wider region. Environmental debate and
concern is widespread in Oslo, and this is reflected in its earlier
planning decisions to leave intact large forest reserves, its
successful ecological restoration of the Oslo fjord, the importance
of outdoor culture among its residents, the relatively progressive
political agenda of Norway, This book provides an opportunity for a
critical assessment of the limitations and opportunities inherent
in 'green Oslo' and suggests the need for much broader integrative
approaches. It concludes by highlighting lessons which other cities
might learn from Oslo.
As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel
dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking
initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more
sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to
evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use.
Focusing on Oslo, an early leader in urban environmental policy
making and a European 'green city' award winner, it argues that
this evaluation must adopt and integrate two approaches: firstly,
as a process of ecological modernization based on a combination of
transit, densification, and mixed use development and secondly, as
an opportunity to reconsider the character and substance of the
built environment as a reflection of natural values, landscapes and
natural resources of the wider region. Environmental debate and
concern is widespread in Oslo, and this is reflected in its earlier
planning decisions to leave intact large forest reserves, its
successful ecological restoration of the Oslo fjord, the importance
of outdoor culture among its residents, the relatively progressive
political agenda of Norway, This book provides an opportunity for a
critical assessment of the limitations and opportunities inherent
in 'green Oslo' and suggests the need for much broader integrative
approaches. It concludes by highlighting lessons which other cities
might learn from Oslo.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty
in the human experience of place, interactions with other species,
and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to
themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity,
environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility
for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is
not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a
powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a
whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the
ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates
effective social and political engagement.
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