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 Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ecocritical 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Sustainability and the city Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498536592 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017036876 |
| ISBN | 9781498536608 (Electronic) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |