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ISBN 10: 1136662829
ISBN 13: 9781136662829
Author: Anna Jorgensen
Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban ‘wilderness’ landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, these derelict, abandoned and marginal spaces are frequently overgrown with vegetation and host to a wide range of human activities. They include former industrial sites, landfill, allotments, cemeteries, woods, infrastructural corridors, vacant lots and a whole array of urban wastelands at a variety of different scales. Frequently maligned in the media, these landscapes have recently been re-evaluated and this collection assembles these fresh perspectives in one volume. Combining theory with illustrated examples and case studies, the book demonstrates that urban wildscapes have far greater significance, meaning and utility than is commonly thought, and that an appreciation of their particular qualities can inform a far more sustainable approach to the planning, design and management of the wider urban landscape. The wildscapes under investigation in this book are found in diverse locations throughout the UK, Europe, China and the US. They vary in scale from small sites to entire cities or regions, and from discrete locations to the imaginary wildscapes of children’s literature. Many different themes are addressed including the natural history of wildscapes, their significance as a location for all kinds of playful activity, the wildscape as ‘commons’ and the implications for landscape architectural practice, ranging from planting interventions in wildscapes to the design of the urban public realm on wildscape principles.
Urban Wildscapes 1st Table of contents:
Part I Theorizing Wildscapes
Chapter 1: Learning from Detroit or ‘the wrong kind of ruins’
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Appreciating urban wildscapes Towards a natural history of unnatural places
Metropolis’s Nature: Four Chicago Wildscapes
Filled-In Nature: Wildscaping the Lakefront Parks
Elevated Nature: Wildscapes Along Rapid Transit Corridors
In-Between Nature: Wildscape Fragments in Dense Urban Neighbourhoods
Recovered Nature: Wildscapes in Large Vacated Areas
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 3: Places to be Wild in Nature
References
Chapter 4: Playing in Industrial Ruins Interrogating teleological understandings of play in spaces of material alterity and low surveillance
Introduction
Playing in the Ruins
Destructive play: joyriding, burning and smashing
Hedonistic play: drinking, drug-taking, partying and sex
Artistic play: graffiti and other interventions
Adventurous and expressive play: action sports and urban exploration
Theorizing Play in Ruins
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Nature, Nurture; Danger, Adventure; Junkyard, Paradise The Role of Wildscapes in Children’s Literature
The Wildscapes of Children’s Literature
I SPY Unsupervized Play
Missing Parents
Surrogate Parents and Travelling Companions
Friend or Foe?
Sink or Swim
Junkyard or Paradise?
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud?
Conclusion
References
Part II Wildscape Case Studies
Chapter 6: Brown Coal, Blue Paradise The Restoration of Opencast Coal Mines in Lusatia, Germany
Energy Centre Lusatia
Post-Mining Wildscape
New Ways of Dealing with Post-Mining Wildscape
The Lusatian Lakeland
Sielmann’s Nature Landscape Wanninchen
Landscape Project Welzow
Is The Post-Mining Wildscape a Paradise at All?
References
Chapter 7: Wildscape in Shanghai A Case Study of the Houtan Wetland Park – Expo 2010 Shanghai
Introduction
The Expo 2010 Site
Former, Existing and After Uses
Approach to the Post-Industrial Landscape: Houtan Wetland in the Expo Site
The Site as Cultural Relic
Approach to Post-Industrial Land in Shanghai
References
Chapter 8: Christiania Copenhagen A common out of the ordinary1
Introduction
Outside the Walls
Inside the Commons
Beyond Ideals
Notes
References
Chapter 9: The River Don as a Linear Urban Wildscape
Introduction
A Context for Sheffield, South Yorkshire and the River Don
The Don: A River with a History
A lost wetland: the River Don catchment and the great South Yorkshire fens
Urban expansion, decline of nature, and natural re-colonization
New life, new living: retail therapy for the River Don in the twenty-first century
But How Should We Celebrate the New River and Engage the Community?
References
Chapter 10: Enhancing Ruderal Perennials in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield A New Park on the ‘Bandit Lands’ of Urban Green Space Dereliction
Introduction
The Park’s History and Context
Shaping the Park
The Experimental Planting
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 11: Pure Urban Nature Nature-Park Südgelände, Berlin
Introduction
History: From Freight Railyard to New Wilderness
From New Wilderness to Nature-Park: Challenges and Approaches of the Master Plan
1 Definition of space typology
2 Access concept
3 Preservation of natural and cultural elements
Management
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Upstaging Nature Art in Sydenham Hill Wood
An Urban Wildscape
The Art of Permanence and Change
Eco Vandalism
Upstaging Nature
Conclusion
Notes
Part III Implications for Landscape Practice
Chapter 13: Buried Narratives
The Tabula Rasa
Symbols: Narrative3
Process as Framework
Extended Relationships: Intertextuality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 14: Taming the Wild Gyllin’s Garden and the Urbanization of a Wildscape
Introduction
From Industrial Landscape to Wildscape
Contested Ideas Concerning the Wild Nature of the Garden
Framing the Garden
Another Walk
Conclusion
References
Chapter 15: Disordering Public Space Urban wildscape Processes in Practice
Introduction
The Berlin Condition
Processes and Properties of Urban Wildscapes
Registration of Change
Indeterminacy and Ambiguity
Temporal and Temporary Interventions: Architecture on Probation
Mobility: Roving Subjectivities
Quality of Incompleteness
Performative Properties
Participatory Processes
Diversity
Informing Practice
Portable Art Space: Urban Camping
Woodvale HUB: Negotiating the Social Topography
Dublin Parlour: Post-Boom Wasteland
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 16: Anti-Planning, Anti-Design? Exploring Alternative Ways of Making Future Urban Landscapes
Introduction
Recent Trends in the Planning and Design of Urban Public Open Spaces
Qualities of Urban Wildscapes
Implications for Urban Planning and Design
Notes
References
Illustration credits
Index
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