Title: Changing Representations of Nature and the City
Description: The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and resource exploitation, instigated a surge in environmental awareness and activism. One implication of this moment is a growing recognition of the integration and interconnection of natural and urban entities. The present collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city beginning from the turn of the 1960s/70s. Bringing together a number of different disciplinary approaches, including architectural studies and aesthetics, heritage studies and economics, environmental science and communication, the collection reflects upon the changing perception of socio-natures in the context of increasing urban expansion and global interconnectedness as they are/were manifest in specific representations.
Subjects: Cities and towns, growth, Nature (aesthetics), Cultural geography, Art, Cultural Studies, Human ecology, Study and teaching, Globalization, Heritage, Memory, Urban History, Cities and towns, Visual Culture, Visual Studies, Géographie culturelle, Écologie humaine, Étude et enseignement, Mondialisation, Globalism, NATURE, Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Media Studies, Urbanization, City planning, Rural-urban relations, Growth, History