Paradoxes of green : landscapes of a city-state / Gareth Doherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doherty, Gareth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban landscape architecture--Bahrain.

Urban landscape architecture.

Green--Social aspects--Bahrain.

Green.

Colors--Social aspects--Bahrain.

Colors.

Greenbelts--Bahrain.

Greenbelts.

Colors--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Bahrain.

Physical Description:

xii, 198 pages 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This highly innovative book is a multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, the smallest and greenest of the Arab states in the Persian Gulf, where green has a long and deep history appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous--and a radical contrast to the hot, hostile desert. As is the case with cities around the world, green is often celebrated as a counter to gray urban environments, yet green has not always been good for cities. To have the color green manifested in arid environments is often in direct conflict with 'green' from an environmental point of view; this paradox is at the heart of the book. Given the resources required to maintain green in arid areas, including cities, the provision of green often bears significant environmental costs. In arid environments such as Bahrain, this contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and lives in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. The book's six chapters focus on: Blue, Red, Date-palm Green, Grass Green, Beige, and White. Implicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : two seas, many greens

Green scenery

The blueness of green

How green can become red

The memory of date palm green

The clash of the Manama green belt

The promise of beige

Brightening green

The whiteness of green.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Doherty, Gareth, author. Paradoxes of green

ISBN:

9780520285026

9780520285019

0520285018

0520285026

OCLC:

952629387

Publisher Number:

99973578097