Green Paper on the Urban Environment
Author: Commission of the European Communities
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9789277611874
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Author: Commission of the European Communities
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9789277611874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Commission of the European Communities
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 90
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9789282616604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Commission of the European Communities
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 88
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 14
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Published: 1990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gareth Doherty
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0520285026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This highly innovative book is a multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, the smallest and greenest of the Arab states in the Persian Gulf, where green has a long and deep history appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous--and a radical contrast to the hot, hostile desert. As is the case with cities around the world, green is often celebrated as a counter to gray urban environments, yet green has not always been good for cities. To have the color green manifested in arid environments is often in direct conflict with 'green' from an environmental point of view; this paradox is at the heart of the book. Given the resources required to maintain green in arid areas, including cities, the provision of green often bears significant environmental costs. In arid environments such as Bahrain, this contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and lives in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. The book's six chapters focus on: Blue, Red, Date-palm Green, Grass Green, Beige, and White. Implicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place"--
Author: European Communities. Economic and Social Committee
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorothee Brantz
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 081393138X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city’s history with—and approach to—its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life. The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history, moving from fin-de-siècle Sofia to green efforts in urban Seattle. The authors present a wide array of cases that speak to global concerns through the local and specific, with topics that include green-space planning in Barcelona and Mexico City, the distinction between public and private nature in Los Angeles, the ecological diversity of West Berlin, and the historical and cultural significance of hybrid spaces designed for sports. The essays collected here will make us think differently about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them. Contributors: Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin * Peter Clark, University of Helsinki * Lawrence Culver, Utah State University * Konstanze Sylva Domhardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich * Sonja Dümpelmann, University of Maryland * Zachary J. S. Falck, Independent Scholar* Stefanie Hennecke, Technical University Munich * Sonia Hirt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Salla Jokela, University of Helsinki * Jens Lachmund, Maastricht University * Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * Jarmo Saarikivi, University of Helsinki * Jeffrey Craig Sanders, Washington State University