This paper considers the transformation of two decommissioned rail lines, in Paris and New York City, into ecologically-oriented green space. Situating the restoration of these rail lines within dominant trajectories of urbanization helps to understand how ecological restoration projects may function as financial instruments that intensify experiences of social injustice. This paper considers how the design and aesthetics of New York's High Line and Paris' Sentier Nature construct ecologies that also produce environmental subjectivities, and how these spaces reflect uneven investment in nature across urban landscapes. While the two case studies are aesthetically distinct, they are both woven into existing global patterns of urban transformation, and their evolution from disused industrial space to public park shares an emotional attachment to safety that demands removal of threatening inhabitants.
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Off Track, in Nature: Construction Ecology on Old Rail Lines in Paris and New York
Jennifer Foster
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2010
- Article Type:
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- Pages:
- 316–337 (22 total)
In Search of (Just) Climate Urbanism
Joshua Mullenite
Barber, Benjamin R. 2017. Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-22420-7. Günel, Gökçe. 2019. Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 143–147 (5 total)
Making Place for the Modern Road
The Road Exhibitions in Brussels (1910) and Liège (1930)
David Peleman
This article describes how two temporary road exhibitions before World War II functioned as tools to frame the Belgian road project as a rich cultural venture. In the absence of a comprehensive policy and any diverse cultural engagement by the government, a particular relationship between culture, technology, and society crystallized in the museological arrangement of these exhibitions. The article argues that, while these exhibitions relate the road project to a broad cultural field, they simultaneously instill a rigid way of reasoning about the modern road.
Book Reviews
Wojciech Kębłowski, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, and Fatma Derya Mentes
Holliday et al., Beautyscapes , 119. The Complexities of Imagining and Designing a Sustainable Future The Case of the Masdar City Project Gökçe Günel, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Durham
Mapping Multivalent Metaphors: Analyzing the Wildnis Metaphor in the Zwischenstadt Discourse in Terms of Political Worldviews
Vera Vicenzotti
This article presents an approach to mapping multivalent metaphors, that is, metaphors that imply competing values. It suggests that a metaphor's interpretative repertoire can usefully be structured in terms of worldviews derived from political philosophies. To illustrate this approach, the article analyzes how Wildnis (wild nature) is used to refer to the Zwischenstadt (hybrid peri-urban landscapes) in German language planning discourse. It thus makes a contribution toward interpreting and structuring this discourse. After outlining the methodological framework, the article presents certain elements of the interpretative repertoire of Wildnis by outlining selected liberal, Romantic, and conservative interpretations of this metaphor. It then interprets actual statements by urban and landscape planners and designers, reconstructing how they refer to various political interpretations of Wildnis. Finally, it is argued that the approach can benefit planning practice by enhancing frame awareness and by allowing for a systematic analysis of the metaphor's blind spots.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 162–184 (23 total)
Symbolic Capital
Urban Design for Tourism
Dean MacCannell
One of the larger changes of the last thirty years has been the emergence within urban planning and design of strong consideration for tourism, tourist sites, tourist decision making, and designer ideas about tourist desire. In a 1963 keynote address to a conference at Harvard, James Rouse declared Disneyland to be ‘the greatest piece of urban design in the United States today’. (Marling 1997: 170) Architecture and planning fields now incorporate theme park design elements into urban redevelopment projects throughout the United States. Security, cleanliness, aesthetic and social order and historic referentiality as found at Disney’s ‘Mainstreet USA’ are now ‘designed into’ urban infill projects and new towns in urban corridors.
From Multiculturalism to Multinaturalism: What Rules of Method for the New Socio-Scientific Experiments?
Bruno Latour
This article reflects on the traditional distinction between scientific laboratories experimenting on theories and phenomena and a political outside where non-experts make do with human values, opinions, and passions. Since today all people are engaged in emerging collective experiments on matters as varied as climate, food, landscape, health, urban design, and technical communication as consumers, militants, and citizens, they can all be considered co-researchers. Co-researching has consequences for our understanding of nature and demands a renewed attention to “multinaturalist” politics. It also questions the division of labor between experts and nonexperts. The article finishes with a call to “dis-invent” modernity so that we “moderns” can finally become ordinary humans again.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2011
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What If? / What Now?
“Futuring” Mobilities Research by Engaging with Design
Ole B. Jensen
and the wider social sciences with this new perspective that became the “new mobilities turn.” 2 However, I will pause for a personal account to illustrate the wider links from the mobility research to architecture and urban design. 3 My exchange
Alone Together
Intimacy and Semi-Mobility during Ho Chi Minh City's Lockdown
Van Minh Nguyen
changed to protect the privacy of the individuals cited. References Alter , L. ( 2020 ), ‘ Urban Design after the Coronavirus ’, Treehugger , 8 April , https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/urban-design-after-coronavirus.html . Attwood
In Memoriam
John Urry, 1946–2016
Bob Jessop
climate change, urban design, the social implications of 3-D printing, and, most recently, present futures and future futures. Many of these interests converged in his efforts to establish Lancaster’s Institute for Social Futures, where he was the