Bookshelf
| can't find it |

| browse books |
books
 

| book details |

Urbanizing Nature: Actors and Agency (Dis)Connecting Cities and Nature Since 1500

Edited by Tim Soens, Edited by Dieter Schott, Edited by Michael Toyka-Seid, Edited by Bert De Munck

| on special |

normal price: R 2,126.95

Price: R 1,913.95


| book description |

What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be ""urbanizing"": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as ""natural disaster"". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern ""urban nature"" as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

| product details |



Normally shipped | This title will be printed on demand for your order. Delivery will be 6 weeks or less.
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 30 Sep 2020
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 342
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 453g
ISBN | 978-0-3676-6250-9
Readership Age |
BISAC | history / general


| other options |


| your trolley |

To view the items in your trolley please sign in.

| sign in |

| specials |

Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwen Williams
Paperback / softback
232 pages
was: R 340.95
now: R 306.95
Forthcoming

Let's stare the future down and, instead of fearing AI, become solutionists.

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order


The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
Paperback / softback
320 pages


Enquiries only


The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
Paperback / softback
528 pages
was: R 425.95
now: R 382.95
Usually dispatched in 6-12 days

This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodes’s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.