Hou Wallless Cities

Cities and Nature in American History
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-7827-0
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 357 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of individuals. It provides a detailed examination of the development trends, achievements, and existing issues in this field, and a profound understanding of the urgency and necessity of nurturing new ideas to guide cities out of their 'ecological paradox'. It also summarizes the formation and development, challenges, and missions of American cities centered around the core image of the 'City Without Walls'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hou, Shen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Li, Ruitian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Expanding Cities and Shrinking Continents.- Part I. City Writing.- 2. Rewrite the History of Cities in Nature.- Part II. Growing Cities.- 3. Crowded, Poisoned and Beautiful.- 4. A City upon a Hill.- Part III. Expanding Cities.- 5. City without Borders.- 6. City of Sea of Grass.- Part IV. Ideological Landscape of Cities.- 7. City, Wilderness and Intermediate Landscape.- 8. City by the Bay.

Über Autor(innen)

Shen Hou is Professor in the Department of History at Peking University, Beijing, China.

Li Ruitian, PhD, currently a lecturer at Xi’an International Studies University, holds translation and interpreting certificates from NAATI (Australia) and CATTI (China). Specializing in corpus-based translation studies and conference interpreting, he has published in SSCI-indexed journals and leads translation research projects.