Urban place : reconnecting with the natural world / Reconnecting with the natural world edited by Peggy F. Barlett. - viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconnecting with place : faculty and the Piedmont Project at Emory University / Lifting spirits : creating gardens in California domestic violence shelters / Community gardens in New York City : place, community, and individuality / Urban connections to locally grown produce / Missouri Regional Cuisines Project : connecting to place in the restaurant / Urban volunteers and the environment : forest and prairie restoration / Nature, memory, and nation : New York's Latino gardens and casitas / On the sublime in nature in cities / Forest, savanna, city : evolutionary landscapes and human functioning / Health of places, the wealth of evidence / Preference, restoration, and meaningful action in the context of nearby nature / Concluding remarks : nature and health in the urban environment / Peggy F. Barlett -- Susan M. Stuart -- Malve von Hassell -- Susan L. Andreatta -- Elizabeth Barham, David Lind, and Lewis Jett -- Robert L. Ryan and Robert E. Grese -- Barbara Deutsch Lynch and Rima Brusi -- Robert Rotenberg -- William C. Sullivan -- Howard Frumkin -- Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Jules Pretty and Peggy F. Barlett.

0262025868 9780262025867 0262524430 9780262524438

2005043788


Urban ecology (Sociology)
Human ecology
Organic living
Bioregionalism

HT241 / .U726 2005

307.76