Topic 04 (week 05) Flashcards
what is urban environmental history
how we alter out environment over time
hopw the built environment can influence the environment and nature
shows how humans separate built environment and nature
research frameworks for natural and built environment lacking
Barcelona example
builds around the natural environment
traditional view of the urban environment
technoligies alter or shaspe the natural landscape
buildings are one with the natural environment
joel A. Tarr urban environment
since the 1970s urban environmental history is primaruly the built environment
Melosi urban environment
a slightly broader definition in which the physical features and resources of urban sites (and regions) infleunce and are shaped by natural forces, growth and spatial change
Urban environmental history
3 issues
- the city in environmental history remains largely ill-defined
does not ecompass the whole of city - broadened our empirical knowledge
broadened our knowledge but suffers from limited grounding in theory - how cities function rather than how they grow
existing research is narrow and empirical rather than broad and theoretical
defining cities in environmental terms
urban historians take responsability for not defining cities in adequate environmental terms or for not placing the built environment within the larger framework of the physical world
Worster Environmental history
nature is the nonhuman
natural world = non-human and pristine (not true)
attempted to distinguish between the natural and built environment
justified exclusion of the built environment from his definitions of environmental history
William cronon environmental history
development of chicago (being connected with the entire USA)
found ways to live in an odd environment
urban ecology can more deeply influence the study of the city
David Harvey
urban environment = man-made fixed design
giant man-made human system
neo-marxist (function of capitalism)
City viewed as an urban organism, explain
taking vast resources (consuming the natural environment)
using to build urban environment
convert resource space into urban space
city as a growth machine
Manuel Castells - City and regional planning
cities are living systems and transformed and experienced by the people in them
developing artificial systems
self-contained (consuming global resources)
Thomas R. Detwyler and Melvin Marcus
viewed the city as a relatively new kind of ecosystem on the face of the earth
has limits
Maasai People
neolithic
semi-nomadic pastorialists
saw themselves as apart of the environment
live iwth the wildflife
right in the landscape
Government role and UNESCO: Maasai people
2010 world heritage site (crater)
trying to evict maasai people becausde they arent “apart of the nautral landscape” but infact they are
