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Urban Nature Flashcards

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Give two examples of futuristic art/literature about cities.

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  1. Ballard Drowned world (1962)
  2. ‘I am legend’ (Dir. Francis Lawrence, 2007)
    - Also book by Matheson (1954)
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What does ‘I am Legend’ (2007, Dir. Lawrence) suggest about the urban condition?

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  • Urban nature pervades Manhattan in this (unlikely) apocalyptic future
  • Yet makes it look as though nature could only reclaim the city once people are gone
  • Reinforces an ‘urban realism’ (cf. Fisher 2008) devoid of nature
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Who has commented on the agoraphobia aspects of cities?

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Vidler 2000 - warped space

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What did the “Ideal city” painting (c.1475) depict the city as?

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A place devoid of people, industry and nature. Geometric

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What is ironic about Garden Cities in the UK?

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Actually rational and car-dominated!

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How can different public spheres in the city be represenred?

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  • Private spaces for some activities (e.g., Warm Rooms in St Petersburg - Petri 2022)
  • Public houses (drunkenness) vs cafes (civilised)
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What was one of the first truly PUBLIC parks?

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Birkenhead park (1847)

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What is a good essay on gendered experiences of London?

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Woolf 1930

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Is there such a thing as inherently urban problems?

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No, really the consequence of capitalism (e.g., Engels “And yet there is a great deal of money made here; good day, sir”

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What did plants historically (and today) represent?

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Represented geopolitical power

  • The more ornate the plants = the more regional power dominance
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What is significant about the Louisiana Sculpture park in Denmark?

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People can access the art and nature

  • est 1958
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Is central park really nature?

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No, it is as much an engineering feat by Olmsted

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Was central park originally planned in NCY?

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Not in the “grid-iron plan” (1811)

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How did central park affect surrounding areas?

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  • Concerns initially (tax and disorder)
  • Yet caused rent rise - speculative capital invested in surrounding properties
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15
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How many entries were there for central park?

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31 entries for the design
- Olmsted’s pastoral landscape winner
- Features ‘the Ramble’, a simulacrum of a natural landscape
- Also formal elements - water features etc

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What were Olmsted’s ideas of central park?

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  • TO create a pastoral landscape for romanticism-inspired improvement of city lives
  • A city for the public + mass migration
  • Yet technocratic, no consultation

FIND CITATION

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17
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What happened after central park opened?

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  • Elite playground (by 1859 according to photos)
  • Millions of visitors by 1870s
  • Complaints in 1930s “Let ‘em play”
  • After ww2 a political space for civil soc movements and protest (cf. Nissen 2008)
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What happened to central park from 1980s onwards?

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  1. Disrepair in 1970s
    2.Central Park conservancy from 1980s
  2. Became semi-privatised, funded by philanthropic donations

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What did Moses and Olmsted have in common?

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  • No consultation
  • Simplified complex issues
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What has Koolhaas (1978) highlighted about central park?

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  • A form of taxidermy
  • A fragment of an original nature

YET ONLY A SIMULACRUM!

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What is Gilles Clement’s “third landscape”?

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That the landscape should be left alone - it is a space of resistance

(Clement 2015)

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What is ironic about non-design?

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Design is needed for it!
- There are intentionalities in the “Third Landscape” (Clement 2015)
- Parks are “in movement”

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

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23
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What is interesting about Parc Henri Matisse, Lille?

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It is a refuge for a nature in a park…
- Yet parks are often considered refuges for nature…
- What is natural and what are remnants??
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24
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What is an “urban arcadia”?

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A place of escape and solitude

25
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What typology did Matthew suggest re urban nature?

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  1. Systems-based approach [scientific]
  2. Observational paradigms [ethnographies of nature?]
    [also scientific “problems” of urban nature/ecosystems]
  3. Urban Pol Eco (UPE) [Marxist / metabolism - could itself be split]
  4. Ecological Pluiverse [assemblages / ANT]

NOT SET IN STONE [own additions in brakets]

26
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Who is associated with the systems-based approach to urban nature?

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Paul Duvigneaud
- Trained in tropical ecology
- Sankey diagrams of urban metabolism

27
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Who has devised a focus on “urban problems”?

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Alberti 2005

  • Built environment considered to be detrimental to urban nature and ecosystems
28
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Does Alberti (2005) break down urban-rural dualism?

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  • Looks at nature in cities
  • Yet nature still seen as the Other to the city
  • City is always and inherently capitalist
29
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What is important to consider about scientific, systems-based approaches to urban nature (and capitalist research generally)?

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  • Funding?
  • In whose interests?
30
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When were observational paradigms of urban nature predominant? What is an example?

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In the 19th century (e.g., Deakin 1855 - Flora of the colosseum)

Good links to ruins, destruction and memory

31
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Who has written about their personal experience of WW2 bomb sites?

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Rose Macaulay ‘The World, My Wilderness’ (1950)

32
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What did the Berlin School of urban nature highlight?

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Cosmopolitan ecologies of post-war Berlin

(see Gandy 2022)

33
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What do recombinant/ cosmopolitan ecologies highlight?

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What nature is welcome / unwelcome in urban space?

  • Example = ring-necked parakeets
34
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How does the observational paradigm for urban nature exist today?

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Observational science and citizen science projects (scaling up)

  • Big Garden Birdwatch!
35
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Who has highlighted how plants in ports are emblematic of colonialism?

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Alves 2004

36
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Who highlighted the dialectic between myth and enlightenment?

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Horkheimer and Adorno 1944 - the dialectic of enlightenment

  • The enlightenment conceals the reality of nature and culture (and presents them as a dualism)
37
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What does PE in the Global South focus on?

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The political economy

38
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What is overlooked in UPE?

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Neo-vitalism (the agency of matter)

39
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Why are environmental science fictions useful?

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  • Increasingly read
  • Spreads information and galvanises interests
40
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Who has suggested that we expand our horizons to reflect on different perspectives, economies and societies?

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Arturo Escobar 2019 - Pluriverse: a post-development dictionary

41
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What is a (albeit minor) problem with discussions concerning re-wilding urban space?

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Assumes that urban space is not already wild

  • Integrating animals in different ways
  • Exploit the invisible animals whilst introducing the non-invisible!?
42
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What film has deconstructed human-animal relations?

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‘Wild’ (Dir. Krebitz 2016)
- Wolf becomes domesticated
- Human becomes undomesticated

43
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When considering Rights to the City, how can these be expanded further?

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More-than-human rights to the city

44
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How are animals architecturally incorporated into cities?

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Human housing and aspects designed for non-humans

45
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What did the ostvaardespladen highlight about the ethics of re-wilding?

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When do you intervene?

  • Adverts to public generate criticism
46
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Who has recently discussed ruderal natures in the city?

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Stoetzer 2022 - ruderal city and natures

47
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What tradition has merged urban ecology with UPE?

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The Berlin School

48
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What are 3 emerging challenges for UPE?

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  • Unify with urban ecology and transect studies (also neo-vitalism and affect)
  • What about neo-Lefebvrian complete urbanisation? What makes UPE specific?
  • Zoonotic urbanisation and corporeal natures
49
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What is forensic ecology?

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cf. Weisman 2019

  • City and nature as a palimpsest of crime
  • Forensic Entomology (flies at crime scenes)
  • A global crime scene during the 6th mass extinction (?)
50
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Who has discussed ‘hostile landscape architecture’, as it could be called?

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Mitchell and Staeheli 2006

Lawns replaced with ‘prickly plants and flowers’

51
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What does Nissen (2008) highlight about parks?

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Parks “are equipped with rules and regulations that
permit certain uses and prohibit others”

Nissen 2008

52
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Who has discussed the use of “not-for-profit private management companies” control over Bryant park?

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Nissen 2008

53
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What is a good case study for parks and private ownership/

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Bryant Park, Midtown Manhattan (Nissen 2008)

  • Good links to central park too
54
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How is security involved in Bryant Park, NY?

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“Uniformed and plainclothes security and police officers patrol the site” (Nissen 2008)

  • Consider incorporation into urban space
  • Private control and clientele
    ALSO ZUKIN 1995
55
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Who discussed the exportation of “urban planning” during colonialism? What are 3 key points?

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King 1977

1) Urban Planning ideas trialled in Britain (unilateral flow ideas, they were “imposed” on colonies, ignoring other urban planning systems)

2) Seen as a “solution” to disorder and problems - could link to Biopolitics.

3) Courses on developmentalist planning in the 1960s

56
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Under what principles was Delhi, India designed?

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  • In accordance with the “garden city” movement in Britain
  • The planning ideas were exported

King 1977

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