The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment - Hardcover

Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802091601 ISBN 13: 9780802091604

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions. A timely and important collection, The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.

About this title

About the Authors

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a professor and dean emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University.


Stephen Bede Scharper is an associate professor with the Centre for the Environment and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802091601
• ISBN 13: 9780802091604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper