Landscape and the ideology of nature in exurbia
Landscape and the ideology of nature in exurbia green sprawl / [electronic resource] :
edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux and Laura Taylor.
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- xix, 311 p. : ill., maps.
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 39 .
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 39. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : sprawl and the ideology of nature / Laura Taylor and Kirsten Valentine Cadie -- 2. Bridges in the cultural landscape : crossing nature in exurbia / Laura Taylor -- 3. Exurbia meets nature : environmental ideals for a rootless society / Richard Judd -- 4. Airworld, the Genius Loci of exurbia / Andrew Blum -- 5. Rewilding Walden Woods and reworking exurban woodlands : higher uses in Thoreau country / Brian Donahue -- 6. Sojourning in nature : the second-home exurban landscapes of Ontario's near north / Nik Luka -- 7. Design and conservation in Quãaebec's rural-urban fringe : the case of Lac-Beauport / Geneviâaeve Vachon and David Paradis -- 8. Time, place, and structure : typo-morphological analysis of three Calgary neighborhoods / Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai -- 9. The imagined landscape : language, metaphor, and the environmental movement / Thomas Looker -- 10. The mortality of trees in exurbia's pastoral modernity : challenging conservation practices to move beyond deferring dialogue about the meanings and values of environments / Kirsten Valentine Cadieux.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203084779 (e-book : PDF)
Landscapes.
Nature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : sprawl and the ideology of nature / Laura Taylor and Kirsten Valentine Cadie -- 2. Bridges in the cultural landscape : crossing nature in exurbia / Laura Taylor -- 3. Exurbia meets nature : environmental ideals for a rootless society / Richard Judd -- 4. Airworld, the Genius Loci of exurbia / Andrew Blum -- 5. Rewilding Walden Woods and reworking exurban woodlands : higher uses in Thoreau country / Brian Donahue -- 6. Sojourning in nature : the second-home exurban landscapes of Ontario's near north / Nik Luka -- 7. Design and conservation in Quãaebec's rural-urban fringe : the case of Lac-Beauport / Geneviâaeve Vachon and David Paradis -- 8. Time, place, and structure : typo-morphological analysis of three Calgary neighborhoods / Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai -- 9. The imagined landscape : language, metaphor, and the environmental movement / Thomas Looker -- 10. The mortality of trees in exurbia's pastoral modernity : challenging conservation practices to move beyond deferring dialogue about the meanings and values of environments / Kirsten Valentine Cadieux.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780203084779 (e-book : PDF)
Landscapes.
Nature.
Suburbs.
Electronic books.