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Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

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Series: Routledge Advances in Urban History

General European HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0367662507
ISBN13: 9780367662509
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2020
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity's interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be urbanizing turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as natural disaster. Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern urban nature as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

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