In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism
Title:
In the nature of cities : urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism
Author:
Heynen, Nik, 1973-
ISBN:
9780415368278
9780415368285
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description:
xv, 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series:
Questioning cities series
Contents:
Urban political ecology : politicizing the production of urban natures / Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw -- Metabolic urbanization : the making of cyborg cites / Erik Swyngedouw -- Metropolitics and metabolics : rolling out environmentalism in Toronto -- Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Urban nature and the ecological imaginary / Matthew Gandy -- Nature's carnival : the ecology of pleasure at Coney Island / Eliza Darling -- The desire to metabolize nature : Edward Loveden Loveden, William Vanderstegen, and the disciplining of the river Thames / Stuart Oliver -- Turfgrass subjects : the political economy of urban monoculture / Paul Robbins and Julie Sharp -- Justice of eating in the city : the political ecology of urban hunger / Nik Heynen -- Metabolism of obe-city : flows of fat through bodies, cities and sewers / Simon Marvin and Will Medd -- The political ecology of water scarcity : the 1989-1991 Athenian drought / Maria Kaika -- The metabolic processes of capital accumulation in Durban's waterscape / Alex Loftus -- The public/private conundrum of urban water : a view from South Africa / Laila Smith and Greg Ruiters -- Inherited fragmentations and naratives of environmental control in entrepreneurial Philadelphia / Alec Brownlow -- Transnational alliances and global politics : new geographies of urban environmental justice struggles / David N. Pellow -- Urban metabolism as target : contemporary war as forced demodernization / Stephen Graham.
Abstract:
Including urban case studies and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will give students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies a better understanding of how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005012463.html