Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places

by Mary Soderstrom
Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places

by Mary Soderstrom

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Overview

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection with naturehow well theyve done is both a lesson in hope and, often, a warning. Featuring chapters on Babylon, Provins (France), London and Bloomsbury, Hamilton, Chicago, Irvine, Singapore, Tanga (Tanzania), Kochi (India), Shanghai, and So Paulo, as well as recommendations on what must be done so that everyone has a bit of green to call their own. Also includes photographs and extensive notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550652642
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Publication date: 01/01/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 248
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Mary Soderstrom’s Green City: People, Nature&Urban Places was selected as one of the Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2007. She is the author of Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens and The Violets of Usambara. She lives in Montreal.
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