Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500 (Routledge Advances in Urban History)

by TimSoens (Editor), Dieter Schott (Editor), Michael Toyka - Seid (Editor), Bert De Munck (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $141.47

  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.