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Landscape and the ideology of nature in exurbia [electronic resource] : green sprawl / edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux and Laura Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in human geography ; 39.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2013.Description: xix, 311 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780203084779 (e-book : PDF)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : sprawl and the ideology of nature / Laura Taylor and Kirsten Valentine Cadie -- 2. Bridges in the cultural landscape : crossing nature in exurbia / Laura Taylor -- 3. Exurbia meets nature : environmental ideals for a rootless society / Richard Judd -- 4. Airworld, the Genius Loci of exurbia / Andrew Blum -- 5. Rewilding Walden Woods and reworking exurban woodlands : higher uses in Thoreau country / Brian Donahue -- 6. Sojourning in nature : the second-home exurban landscapes of Ontario's near north / Nik Luka -- 7. Design and conservation in Quãaebec's rural-urban fringe : the case of Lac-Beauport / Geneviâaeve Vachon and David Paradis -- 8. Time, place, and structure : typo-morphological analysis of three Calgary neighborhoods / Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai -- 9. The imagined landscape : language, metaphor, and the environmental movement / Thomas Looker -- 10. The mortality of trees in exurbia's pastoral modernity : challenging conservation practices to move beyond deferring dialogue about the meanings and values of environments / Kirsten Valentine Cadieux.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : sprawl and the ideology of nature / Laura Taylor and Kirsten Valentine Cadie -- 2. Bridges in the cultural landscape : crossing nature in exurbia / Laura Taylor -- 3. Exurbia meets nature : environmental ideals for a rootless society / Richard Judd -- 4. Airworld, the Genius Loci of exurbia / Andrew Blum -- 5. Rewilding Walden Woods and reworking exurban woodlands : higher uses in Thoreau country / Brian Donahue -- 6. Sojourning in nature : the second-home exurban landscapes of Ontario's near north / Nik Luka -- 7. Design and conservation in Quãaebec's rural-urban fringe : the case of Lac-Beauport / Geneviâaeve Vachon and David Paradis -- 8. Time, place, and structure : typo-morphological analysis of three Calgary neighborhoods / Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai -- 9. The imagined landscape : language, metaphor, and the environmental movement / Thomas Looker -- 10. The mortality of trees in exurbia's pastoral modernity : challenging conservation practices to move beyond deferring dialogue about the meanings and values of environments / Kirsten Valentine Cadieux.

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