Arcadia
The Lake That Became a Sports Stadium
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.
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Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai
This book explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.
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Harvest of the Suburbs, An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
Drawing on sources ranging from gardening books and magazines to statistics and oral history, Andrea Gaynor’s book challenges some of the widespread myths about food production in Australian cities and traces the reasons for its enduring popularity.
Perspectives
Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability
This volume explores the “green city” concept from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions examine the conflicts inherent in eco-modernization and investigate opportunities to respond meaningfully to urban environmental challenges.
Perspectives Article
The Emerald City Was Not a Green City
Melosi analyzes the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to highlight how limited perspectives on urban greenness once were.
Perspectives Article
Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
Arcadia
The Lake That Became a Bus Terminus
This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.
Perspectives
Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
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"Deep Time and Disaster: Black Saturday and the Forgotten Past"
Christine Hansen uses the concept of deep time to challenge the idea that never-before-witnessed events are unprecedented. Using the case of a massive firestorm in 2009 in southeast Australia, she calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles with the colonial legacy.