Cities, natures and the political imaginary

Architectural Design

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 22-27

  Kaika, Maria ^a   Swyngedouw, Erik ^a  

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Author keywords

accumulation of dispossession; Al Gore; An Inconvenient Truth; Arup; Badiou; Chicago As it Was by Currier and Ives, c 1880; David Harvey; Dongtan project; Giddens; green capital investment; Hurricane Katrina, Gulf of Mexico, 28 August 2005; Karl Marx; Mark Whitehead; Masdar City; Nature's Metropolis; neoliberalisation of urban environments; the end of nature; United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); urban environmental imaginaries and discursive formations; urban metabolisms; urban natures; William Cronon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864622021     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1423     Document Type: Article

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