Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the Terrain
I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections
- In Search of the Natural City – Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
- Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration – W.S.K. Cameron
- The “Gruing” of Cities – Frank Cunningham
- “My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City – Peter Timmerman
II. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives
- From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective – Stephen Bede Scharper
- Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East – Bruce V. Foltz
- Dao in the City – Vincent Shen
- Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach – Kenneth Maly
III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications
- Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City – Hilary Cunningham
- Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes – Richard Oddie
- Ecofeminist “Cityzenry” – Trish Glazebrook
- Sustainable Urbanization – John B. Cobb, Jr.
- “Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” – Shubhra Gururani
IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis
- Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors – Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwas
- Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds – David Seamon
- The City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale – Robert Mugerauer
- Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy – Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav Kumar
- Children and Nature in the City – Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Conclusion
