Places of nature in ecologies of urbanism /
If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place and...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : places of nature in Asian cities and towns / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan
- 1. Inquisitive legacies : ecologies of power and Goan modernity / R. Benedito Ferr{tilde}ao
- 2. Eco-socialism and green city making in postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
- 3. Urban leopards are good cartographers : human-nonhuman and spatial conflicts at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai / Fr{acute}ed{acute}eric Landy
- 4. Hong Kong's artificial anti-archipelago and the unnaturing of the natural / Andrew Toland
- 5. Tales from the concrete cave : Delhi's Birla Temple and the genealogies of urban nature in India / Kajri Jain
- 6. Courts, public cultures of legality, and urban ecological imagination in Delhi / K. Sivaramakrishnan
- 7. Ecologies of possibility : dwelling, politics, and government along Khon Kaen's railway tracks / Eli Elinoff
- 8. Discrepant ecologies in a north Indian qasba : protected trees, degraded river / Ann Grodzins Gold
- 9. Re-imagining the Indian underground : a biography of the tubewell / Anthony Acciavatti.