Death and life of nature in Asian cities / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rademacher, Anne, editor.

Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957- editor.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Asia.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia-the rapid urbanization of Asia across big cities, smaller towns, and the newest urban concentrations; and the contentious debates and novel schemes by which nature is figured and emplaced in cities and their conurbations. Contemporary Asian cities displace nature by causing its death and withering, but also embrace it through acts of renewal and the pursuit of sustainability. Contributors to this volume gather case studies from across Asia to address projects of urban greening and reimagining nature in urban life. The book illustrates how the intersection of urban growth and urban nature is a place rich with fresh ideas about urban planning, governance, and social life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Table

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Urban Nature Brought to Life in an Age of Loss

1. Divine Excess: The Power of Accidents and Nature Spirits in Bangkok

2. Putting the Garden Back: Cultivating Life through Urban Gardening in India

3. The Village at the End of the World: Ecologies of Urbanism in Climate Crisis Imaginaries

4. The Singapore “Garden City”: The Death and Life of Nature in an Asian City

5. The Absent Presence: Potholes in Urban India

6. The Death and Life of Urban Ecological Commons in Taipei

7. Making Land Out of Water: Ecologies of Urbanism, Property, and Loss

8. Concrete Ecology: Covering and Discovering Saigon’s Ecology in a Time of Floods

9. Keeping Pace with the Foodshed in Hangzhou

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

"This publication has been generously supported by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and it grows out of two intensive workshops organized by the Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology and Civil Society research group in the Institute's Inter-Asia Program"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Rademacher, Anne Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities

ISBN:

9789888754526

9888754521

OCLC:

1291309813