دانلود کتاب The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment

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Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Cultivating the Terrain\nI: Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections\n1. In Search of the Natural City\n2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations\n3. The ‘Gruing’ of Cities\n4. ‘My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination’: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City\nII: From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives\n5. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective\n6. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East\n7. Dao in the City\n8. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist\nIII: Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications\n9. Gated Ecologies and ‘Possible Urban Worlds’: From the Global City to the Natural City\n10. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes\n11. Ecofeminist ‘Cityzenry’\n12. Sustainable Urbanization\n13. ‘Troubled Nature’: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City, Gurgaon, India\nIV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis\n14. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors\n15. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds\n16. The City: A Legacy of Organism-Environment Interaction at Every Scale\n17. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy?\n18. Children and Nature in the City\nConclusion\nContributors