{"product_id":"natura-urbana-isbn-9780262551335","title":"Natura Urbana","description":"\u003cb\u003eA study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePostindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The “other nature” that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours of metropolitan nature, is not the poor relation of rural flora and fauna. Indeed, these islands of biodiversity underline the porosity of the distinction between urban and rural. In\u003ci\u003e Natura Urbana\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity, through the lens of urban ecology and the parallel study of diverse cultures of nature at a global scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandy examines the articulation of alternative, and in some cases, counterhegemonic, sources of knowledge about urban nature produced by artists, writers, scientists, as well as curious citizens, including voices seldom heard in environmental discourse. The book is driven by Gandy’s fascination with spontaneous forms of urban nature ranging from postindustrial wastelands brimming with life to the return of such predators as wolves and leopards on the urban fringe. Gandy develops a critical synthesis between different strands of urban ecology and considers whether \"urban political ecology,\" broadly defined, might be imaginatively extended to take fuller account of both the historiography of the ecological sciences,and recent insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Preface vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Zoopolis Redux 37\u003cbr\u003e2 Marginalia 85\u003cbr\u003e3 Ecologies of Difference 117\u003cbr\u003e4 Forensic Ecologies 153\u003cbr\u003e5 Temporalities 195\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue 241\u003cbr\u003eNotes 259\u003cbr\u003eFilmography 339\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 341\u003cbr\u003eIndex 401Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and the author of \u003ci\u003eConcrete and Clay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fabric of Space\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301637574885,"sku":"NP9780262551335","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262551335.jpg?v=1767733567","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/natura-urbana-isbn-9780262551335","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}