Gee / Vogelaar Changing Representations of Nature and the City

The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-134-96833-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and resource exploitation, instigated a surge in environmental awareness and activism. One implication of this moment is a growing recognition of the integration and interconnection of natural and urban entities. The present collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city beginning from the turn of the 1960s/70s. Bringing together a number of different disciplinary approaches, including architectural studies and aesthetics, heritage studies and economics, environmental science and communication, the collection reflects upon the changing perception of socio-natures in the context of increasing urban expansion and global interconnectedness as they are/were manifest in specific representations. Using cases studies from around the globe, the collection offers a historical and theoretical understanding of a paradigmatic shift whose material and symbolic legacies are still accompanying us in the early 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gee, Gabriel

Gee, Gabriel N.

Vogelaar, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Gabriel Gee & Alison Vogelaar)

Part 1: Forgotten Spaces

1. Beyond Narcissus: The Metamorphosis of Port Cities in the 20th Century (Gabriel Gee)

2. On the Waterfront: Relationships to ‘Nature’ at the Sparrows Point Steel Mill (Baltimore, USA) (Michelle Stefano)

3. The Bangkok Metropolis Against Nature (1950-present) (Worrasit Taninipankul).

4. Paradise Lost? The Tenuous Place of the City in Invasion Ecology Research and Management (Brack Hale & Alison Vogelaard)

Part 2: Artificial Spaces

5. Passages (Paolo Perulli)

6. Nature and Artifice in the Photographic Work of Luigi Ghirri (Giuliano Sergio).

7. From Nostalgic Beauty to Modern Commodity. Tourism, Finance, Traffic, and City Marketing in the Urban Belt of the Italian and Swiss-Italian Lakes. (Marcus Pyka)

8. Between City and Bush, the Landscapes of Pan-Asian Contemporary Art (Toby Juliff).

Part 3: Interstitial Spaces

9. Reyner Banham’s Desert Landscapes (Eliana Sousa Santos)

10. ‘Nature’ in the Ambiguous Interstice: Reflections of 1970s’ China through "Ambiguous Poetry Faction"(Judan Zhang)

11. From the Utopian City to the Wild Garden: Readings from the Antipodes (Felipe Lanuza Rilling)

12. The Green Corridor, a Vision for Lisbon (Maria Joao Matos)

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Gee is Assistant Professor in Art History at Franklin University, Switzerland

Alison Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University, Switzerland