Sustainability and the City

Urban Poetics and Politics

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Science, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Sustainability and the City by Anirban Adhya, Joseph Donica, Lisa FitzGerald, Heide Imai, Alexander Kleinschrodt, Mehdi Kochbati, Claudia Mantovan, Philip D. Plowright, Iuliu Ratiu, Lea Rekow, Christopher Schliephake, Katarzyna Szalewska, Caitlin Yocco-Locascio, Karim Youssef, Lexington Books
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Author: Anirban Adhya, Joseph Donica, Lisa FitzGerald, Heide Imai, Alexander Kleinschrodt, Mehdi Kochbati, Claudia Mantovan, Philip D. Plowright, Iuliu Ratiu, Lea Rekow, Christopher Schliephake, Katarzyna Szalewska, Caitlin Yocco-Locascio, Karim Youssef ISBN: 9781498536608
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: July 28, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Anirban Adhya, Joseph Donica, Lisa FitzGerald, Heide Imai, Alexander Kleinschrodt, Mehdi Kochbati, Claudia Mantovan, Philip D. Plowright, Iuliu Ratiu, Lea Rekow, Christopher Schliephake, Katarzyna Szalewska, Caitlin Yocco-Locascio, Karim Youssef
ISBN: 9781498536608
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: July 28, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates cities’ inextricability from discussions on sustainability because not only is the world urbanizing at an unprecedented rate but also cities are primary locations of the circulation of excess capital, socioeconomic divisions and hierarchies, political resistance, friction between human and non-human worlds, and the confluence of art, policy, and identity formation in placemaking. With essays by scholars working in a variety of fields—from architecture to literature to music to sociology—this collection maintains that any hope for achieving urban sustainability will require taking seriously the ways in which cities are imagined. Efforts to make cities sustainable must fully incorporate the humanities because critical endeavors and creative expressions that fall within the purview of the humanities are vital to closing the conceptual gulf, as well as the practical gap, between human and non-human conservation. Even if the environmental humanities embrace cities, critics must ask whether coalescing the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘city’ may actually obstruct human action to combat climate change—which, from some angles, seems impending, self-imposed apocalypse.
To examine the urban turn, Sustainability and the City attends to culture. Essays in the first part of the collection approach urban sustainability from various disciplinary vantage points to emphasize history, ideology, pedagogy, and critical theory. The second part of the collection analyzes urban commons on four different continents. Finally, the collection moves from a diverse set of interpretations of on-the-ground urban phenomena to a compilation of readings of sustainability in different media and genres—sound art, drama, fiction, and film—set in, or evocative of, cities. The collection carves out a place for artists and critics to help realize social justice in cities, which generate remarkable power, but power that is too often and too easily used destructively, unfairly, and wastefully despite cities’ unique capacities to inspire and sustain humanity.

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Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates cities’ inextricability from discussions on sustainability because not only is the world urbanizing at an unprecedented rate but also cities are primary locations of the circulation of excess capital, socioeconomic divisions and hierarchies, political resistance, friction between human and non-human worlds, and the confluence of art, policy, and identity formation in placemaking. With essays by scholars working in a variety of fields—from architecture to literature to music to sociology—this collection maintains that any hope for achieving urban sustainability will require taking seriously the ways in which cities are imagined. Efforts to make cities sustainable must fully incorporate the humanities because critical endeavors and creative expressions that fall within the purview of the humanities are vital to closing the conceptual gulf, as well as the practical gap, between human and non-human conservation. Even if the environmental humanities embrace cities, critics must ask whether coalescing the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘city’ may actually obstruct human action to combat climate change—which, from some angles, seems impending, self-imposed apocalypse.
To examine the urban turn, Sustainability and the City attends to culture. Essays in the first part of the collection approach urban sustainability from various disciplinary vantage points to emphasize history, ideology, pedagogy, and critical theory. The second part of the collection analyzes urban commons on four different continents. Finally, the collection moves from a diverse set of interpretations of on-the-ground urban phenomena to a compilation of readings of sustainability in different media and genres—sound art, drama, fiction, and film—set in, or evocative of, cities. The collection carves out a place for artists and critics to help realize social justice in cities, which generate remarkable power, but power that is too often and too easily used destructively, unfairly, and wastefully despite cities’ unique capacities to inspire and sustain humanity.

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