Thinking with Urban Natures

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2023.160202

Raúl Acosta, J. Adedeji, Maan Barua, M. Gandy, L. Gora, K. Schlichting

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Abstract

Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humanities have chosen to focus on relational entanglements instead of separating the city from the environment. In this short collection, we offer a series of reflections about multiple urban natures that often remain unknown or concealed. Each of us does so from a unique disciplinary perspective, ranging from anthropology to history and geography over urban ecology, urban studies and landscape architecture. We hope to point towards a multidisciplinary articulation of urban nature as in itself diverse, complex and de-centred.

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与城市自然一起思考

自启蒙运动以来，城市一直被视为人类成就的典范空间。技术的发展和材料和基础设施的不断重组促成了一个广泛共享的概念，即自然是城市地区之外的东西。在人类世和第六次物种灭绝浪潮的影响下，我们的时代打破了这种愿景。自然科学、艺术和人文学科的新颖反思选择关注关系的纠缠，而不是将城市与环境分开。在这个短篇作品集中，我们提供了一系列关于经常被未知或隐藏的多重城市性质的思考。我们每个人都从独特的学科角度出发，从人类学到历史和地理，再到城市生态学、城市研究和景观建筑学。我们希望指出城市自然本身的多样性、复杂性和去中心化的多学科衔接。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

0.50

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.