"Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside"
Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.
Relates the story of the development of distinct landscapes and ambiences on the urban fringe in three eastern US counties.
The pioneer urban and environmental planner, Patrick Geddes, and his American disciple, Lewis Mumford, dismissed the monumental art museum as an outsized emblem of the garrison state, corporate consolidation, and imperial ambition…
Urban environmental history comprises both human and ecological experience; the two were and are inseparable, and their interaction is dynamic. This essay explores the human and bioregional history of the Penrith Lakes Scheme at Castlereagh in outer Western Sydney as a case study in integrating the two approaches.
Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.
This paper examines the mentalities associated with the transformation of “nature” into urban life in industrial societies, with particular reference to the conversion of rainwater into tap water. It argues that industrial technologies dissociate urban dwellers from the natural environment upon which they depend.
In this paper, it is argued that many social practices serve human purposes and also provide a setting for the emergence of environmental value.
In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.