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"Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands" by…
"Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands" by Matthew Gandy (2013)
What
vocabulary
exists for talking about spaces of "emptiness"and where does it come from?
from philosophy: horror vacui --- Blaise Pascal,
Expériences nouvelles touchant le vuide
(1647)
from architecture: terrain vague, interstitial landscapes --- Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió, "Terrain vague" (1993)
from conservation biology: brownfield, greenfield, open mosaic habitat --- KJ Gaston, ed.,
Urban ecology
(2010)
from literature: wasteland --- TS Eliot, "The Waste Land"(1922)
What have been the
historical trends
in the ways scholars write about urban nature?
Focusing on botany
Richard Mabey,
The unofficial countryside
(1973)
Eduard Bonnet,
Petite flore parisienne [Small Parisian flora]
(1883)
RS Fitter,
London's natural history
(1945)
Paul Jovet, "Evolution des groupements rudéraux ‘parisiens’ [Evolution of Parisian ruderal assemblages]" (1940)
Herbert Sukopp,
Stadtökologie
(1990)
Gerard Hard, "Vegetationsgeographie und sozialökologie einer Stadt" (
Geographische Zeitung
75: 1985)
Ingo Kowarik et al, “Plants in urban settings: From patterns to mechanisms and ecosystem services” (
Perspectives in Urban Ecology
, ed. W Endlicher, 2011)
Offering "critical" perspective
Heynen, N., Kaïka, M. and Swyngedouw, E., eds. 2006.
In the nature of cities: Urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism
Teodor Adorno,
Aesthetic theory
(1970, trans. R Hullot-Kentor [1997])
Peter Walker, "Political ecology: Where is the ecology?" (
Progress in Human Geography
29(1): 2005)
David Takacs,
The idea of biodiversity: Philosophies of paradise
(1996)
Ludwig Trepl, "City and ecology" (
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
7(2): 1996)
Zachary Falk,
Weeds: An environmental history of metropolitan America
(2010)
In what ways does urban nature complicate our understanding of
(non/semi)designed landscapes
?
Danielle Dagenais, "The garden of movement: Ecological rhetoric in support of gardening practice" (
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
24(4): 2005)
Norbert Kühn, "Intentions for the unintentional: Spontaneous vegetation as the basis for innovative planting design in urban areas" (
Journal of Landscape Architecture
: Autumn 2006)
Jamie Lorimer, "Living roofs and brownfield wildlife: towards a fluid biogeography of UK nature conservation" (
Envrionment and Planning A
40(9): 2008)
PH Gobster, "Visions of restoration: Conflict and compatibility in urban park restoration" (
Landscape and Urban Planning
56: 2001)
What kind of
aesthetics
is invoked by focusing on urban nature?
Allen Carlson, “Appreciating art and appreciating nature”. (in
Landscape, natural beauty and the arts
, eds. S. Kemal & J. Gaskell, 1993)
Natalie Blanc,
Vers uns esthétique environmentale [Towards an environmental aesthetic]
(2008)
Cheryl Foster, "The narrative and the ambient in environmental aesthetics" (
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
56(2): 1998)
J Brouwer, A Mulder, and L Spuybroek, eds.,
Vital beauty: Reclaiming aesthetics in the tangle of technology and nature
(2012)
Arnold Berleant,
The aesthetics of environment
(1992)
J Baird Callicott, "The land aesthetic" (
Renewable Resources Journal
10: 1992)
Ronald Rees, "The taste for mountain scenery" (
History Today
25: 1975)
PH Gobster et al, "The shared landscape: What does aesthetics have to do with ecology?" (
Landscape Ecology
22: 2007)
Yuriko Saito, "The aesthetics of unscenic nature" (
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
56(2): 1998)
How might we (generatively) unpack the
ambivalency
embodied by urban wastelands?
K Franck & Q Stevens,
Loose space: Possibility and diversity in urban life
(2007)
W Nohl, "Sustainable landscape use and aesthetic perception—Preliminary reflections on future landscape aesthetics." (
Landscape and Urban Planning
54: 2001)
A Jorgensen & M Tylecote, "Ambivalent landscapes—Wilderness in the urban interstices" (
Landscape Research
32(4): 2007)
Andreas Keil, "Use and perception of postindustrial urban landscapes in the Ruhr” (in
Wild urban woodlands: New perspectives for urban forestry
, eds. I Kowarik & S Körner, 2005)
Walter Benjamin,
Beroliniana
(1932-1938 [2001])