Loughran Parks for Profit

Selling Nature in the City
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55062-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loughran, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
1. Sometime in 2009
2. Varieties of Urban Crisis: New York, Chicago, Houston
II. Growth Machines in the Garden
3. “The Yuppie Express”
4. “No More Bake Sales, Man”
5. “A Piece of Crud”
6. Parks for Profit or for People?
III. Gardens in the Machine
7. Defective Landscapes
8. Imbricated Spaces
9. Constructing Environmental Authenticity
10. Spatial Practices and Social Control
IV. Conclusion
11. After the High Line
12. Abolish, Decolonize, Rot: Three Proposals for Parks Equity
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Loughran is an assistant professor of sociology at Temple University.