Cities and Nature

Benton–Short, Lisa; Short, John Rennie

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“…The reflection on the human-nature relationship within the city and the value of biophilic hypotheses contribute to redefining the role of nature in the sustainable city, understood not only as the presence of green spaces in the urban fabric, but also as an attribute of the built space, as a blueprint or organizational principle of planning, adapted to the relevant scale [60].…”

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Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

Totaforti

2020

Sustainability

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The research presented in this article adopts an urban sociology perspective to explore the relationship between spaces designed with biophilic principles and people’s pro-environmental values and behaviors. The research hypothesized that biophilic design and planning promote connectedness with nature and are positively related to pro-environmental and more sustainable values and behaviors. The contemporary city asserts the need for new paradigms and conceptual frameworks for reconfiguring the relationship between the urban environment and the natural environment. In order to understand whether biophilic design, planning, and policies can meet the global challenges regarding the future existence on earth of humans, focus groups were conducted to investigate how people’s relationship with the built-up space and the natural landscape is perceived, and to what extent the inclusion of nature and its patterns at various levels of urban planning meets people’s expectations. The results suggest that biophilic design and planning can be considered a useful paradigm to deal with the challenges that are posed by the city of the future, also in terms of sustainability, by reinterpreting and enhancing the human–nature relation in the urban context.

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Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

Totaforti

2020

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“…The city's continuous existence over several millennia also differentiates Aswan from many global “resource cities” (Fuccaro ) and especially those whose development resulted from their proximity to mega‐dam sites. The relatively recent growth of many of those desert towns, such as Las Vegas during the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s (Benton‐Short and Short , 176–81), did not have to account for existing urban structures and practices.…”

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City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

Reynolds

2017

City & Society

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Aswan city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s due to the building of the High Dam nearby. The "promising future" of the city involved an array of projects to reconstruct the built environment and modify socio-spatial practices of exclusion that had formed in the colonial period. This article examines several new building projects of the 1960s, such as housing settlements, new riverfront thoroughfares, and transportation systems, as well as imaginaries of city living, expressed in fictional and journalistic writing and film, to excavate a history of the city. The emphasis on debris and cleanliness in these narratives demonstrates that small-scale and local ruin-making practices of residents modified the easy language of promise employed by the postcolonial state. This history reveals the insufficiency of the binary of coercion and consent most often used to explain relations of power and affect in postcolonial states. Provincial cities remain marginalized in Middle Eastern urban studies, and yet the intimate scale of heterogeneity of provincial cities can reveal stark urban geographies of difference.

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“…These themes can have an impact on the urban experience. The expansion of urban centres, for example, has major economic and ecological implications connected with water as land is engineered, natural resources are exploited and water-supplies and drainage facilities are installed (Kahn, 2006;Benton-Short and Short, 2008). The flooding of towns and cities remains an issue that affects many countries and it is these events-which can still sometimes be difficult to predict-that can be such a dramatic reminder of the continued presence of water in the urban context today.…”

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Water and the Urban Fabric: a study of towns and waterscapes in the Roman period in Britain

Rogers

2012

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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This paper highlights the ways in which components of waterscapes—rivers, lakes, pools, wetlands and waterfronts—formed elements of the urban fabric in the Roman period. Urban archaeology has focused mainly on features relating to land, while nautical archaeology, studying rivers, ports and harbours, trade and seafaring, reminds us of the importance of watery contexts. By examining waterscapes in the urban setting we can start to break down some of the traditional dichotomies in archaeology between land and water. Water could form an integral part of the lived environment and acquire cultural meanings that can be studied archaeologically. © 2012 The Author

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Cities and Nature

Cited by 24 publications

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Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt

Water and the Urban Fabric: a study of towns and waterscapes in the Roman period in Britain

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