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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 407–430.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). livability urban design speculative fiction prototyping sustainability permaculture disability Perhaps it is time for all of us to reconsider our loyalties, to consider what might further human survival. Our work is not just sawing the legs off...
View articletitled, Alterlivability: Speculative <span class="search-highlight">Design</span> Fiction and the <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Good Life in Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 250–266.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Germain Meulemans Abstract This article examines the rise of urban soils as a topic of scientific inquiry and ecological engineering in France, and questions how new framings of soil as a material that can be designed reconfigure relationships between urban life and soils in a context of fast...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Pedogeneses: The Making of City Soils from Hard Surfacing to the <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span> Soil Sciences
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 324–350.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on multispecies relations into conversation with landscape and urban theorists, raising possibilities for more-than-human modes of understanding urban and environmental design practice, with these activist artworks providing inspiration for and interpretation of alternative urban spatial practices. © 2019 Kevan...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 128–140.
Published: 01 March 2023
... . Phillips Dana . The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2003 . Pickett Steward T. A. “ Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science .” In Urban Design Ecologies , edited by McGrath Brian , 162 – 71 . Chichester, UK...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 641–660.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Gardens,” 5 . 15. The environment of the modern metropolis created ample opportunities for nonnormative sexual practices to be realized in the shady folds of urban spaces. Recreational green spaces such as public parks and zoological gardens were designed in response to such dangers of degeneracy...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 51–87.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as the Brookfield Zoological Park, famous for jettisoning cages in favor of moats so visitors would have seemingly unmediated encounters with wild animals. To some, this might suggest that unlike National Park Service administrators, the designers of Chicago’s peri-urban parks prioritized recreation over wilderness...
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View articletitled, Multicultural Wilderness: Immigrants, African Americans, and Industrial Workers in the Forest Preserves and Dunes of Jazz-Age Chicago
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
... . Van der Ryn Sim . The Toilet Papers: Designs to Recycle Human Waste and Water; Dry Toilets, Greywater Systems, and Urban Sewage . Santa Barbara, CA : Capra , 1978 . Vigarello Georges . Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages . Translated...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that acoustics and musical aesthetics have been main factors missing from both urban design and ecological thinking.” 37 Schultz's radiophonic cassette Sounds Like Work (1976-8) described the urban workplace as “a thinking point about what we do and have done to us when we work.” If nourishing...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 164–167.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., localized gardens in between private and public spaces that can create and maintain recombinant ecologies (e.g., fig. 1 ). 9 These edges generate community collaborations among neighbors who garden together and inject diversity in the monotony of corporate plants in the urban landscape. Bettina Stoetzer...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 235–239.
Published: 01 November 2016
...-century London. Stag beetles and deadwood were at risk, I learned, from a mania for “greenwashing” 5 tidiness that had swept municipal park management and the fashions of private gardeners in the UK. Rotten wood on brownfield land undermined the utopian dreams of New Labour’s planned “urban renaissance...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of water in the Valley of Mexico tells a material story of colonialism and the impacts of modern urbanization. The Aztec Empire designed its capital Tenochtitlán to coexist with the waters of Lake Texcoco, where populations expanded and prospered through shoreline agriculture that worked with seasonal...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of how the forest can make these decisions is crucial in discussing self-ownership and agency. Actions based on a human-designed algorithm can advance human ideas of forest production and economic value rather than represent a forest’s capacity to negotiate its future. However, the project does...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 May 2020
... polluters have taken evasive measures. “Often they will walk away, go bankrupt and change name of the company,” he said. The ethical sensibilities of ecologists, urban planners, and waste management experts came together at the Sydney Olympic Park in the design of infrastructure that aimed to purify...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 522–542.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Soledad Altrudi; Christopher M. Kelty Abstract Multispecies entanglement has been a major research focus in environmental humanities, aiming to rethink ontological and ethical possibilities, especially in urban settings, by attending to speculative other-than-human futures. This article dwells...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to extirpate once it has become established. In Massachusetts, the Japanese knotweed is one of sixty-six species that have been designated “invasive” by the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group (a nonprofit organization that works in coordination with state and federal agencies). Like the other sixty...
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Decentralized Production and Affective Economies: Theorizing the Ecological Implications of Localism
Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 107–127.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., unemployed workers, and urban blight behind them. As ground rents hit bottom in places like Baltimore and Detroit, urban brown-fields and abandoned industrial sites are turning into boutique manufactories, hacker spaces, makers' collectives, and urban farms. These economic and political forces...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 194–215.
Published: 01 May 2019
...: Failure of an Unplanned Urban Development as a Driver of Passive Ecological Restoration .” Environmental Development 24 ( 2017 ): 179 – 86 . Berardi Franco “ Bifo.” “Exhaustion/Depression .” In Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies , edited by Wiedemann Carolin...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of an “approach to lighting and darkness that avoids dualistic essentialisms and recognises the ways in which the power of each condition draws upon the relationalities and innumerable intersections of dark and light,” to draw from Edensor’s reflections on urban lighting design. 35 He describes how areas both...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 141–163.
Published: 01 March 2023
... , Bolender Karin , and Kirksey Eben , 54 – 76 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . Lyons Kristina . “ Rivers Have Memory: The Impossibility of Floods and Histories of Urban De-and-Reconstruction in the Andean-Amazonian Foothills .” City and Society 30 , no. 3 ( 2018...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Bennett’s Enchantment of Modern Life , the article captures how sensibilities and moralities swing from anethical moments to affective forms of responsibility. By comparing walks at a recreational beach with activists’ campaigns at a peri-urban commons and a climate activist march in the capital center...
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