Sustainability and the city urban poetics and politics / edited by Lauren Curtright and Doris Bremm.

Other author Curtright, Lauren.
Other author Bremm, Doris.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Description1 online resource.
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SeriesEcocritical theory and practice
Contents Lauren Curtright: introduction: the role of the humanities in urban sustainability. Conceptualizing urban sustainability. Christopher Schliephake: The imaginative fabrics of urban sustainability: from metaphor to matter and from management to culture in eco(logical) city (re-)design -- Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright: Wilderness as city: conflicting values in framing sustainable urbanism -- Karim Wagih, Fawzi Youssef: Unraveling the poles of suburb and city -- Luliu Ratiu: The rhetoric of sustainability: teaching writing to (mostly) engineering students in an urban setting -- In situ sustainable urbanism. Lea Rekow: In a fragile context: exploring the challenges of informal sector urban gardening Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Heide Imai: Back to the city: creativity and sustainability as a new approach to revive the city from the inside -- Claudia Mantovan: Coexistence, conflict, and governance in multi-ethnic districts: two case studies in the municipalities of Padua and Venice, Italy -- Joseph Donica: The erosion of the cultural commons and the possibilities of participatory urbanism: public art in New Orleans, Detroit, and Port-Au-Prince -- Representations of sustainability and the city. Alexander Kleinschrodt: The ambivalence of noise: requiem for fossil fuels by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger -- Lisa Fitzgerald: Urban ecology: envisioning and aestheticizing modernity in Samuel Beckett's Not I -- Katarzyna Szalewska: Sustainable urban development and literature: a Central-European view -- Mehdi Kochbati: Exploring the American city's environment: friction between fluctuating urban sustainability, modern myths of space, and memory places in the works of Paul Auster -- Caitlin Yocco-Locascio: Trash that connects: the everyday rhizome of Cédric Klapisch's Paris.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Sustainability and the city Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498536592
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