Inventing Stanley Park - An Environmental History

Informationen zum Autor Sean Kheraj is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University. Klappentext In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how this tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped shape the landscape of one of the world's most famous urban parks. This beautifully illustrated book not only depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park's landscape, it also examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature. Zusammenfassung A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world’s most famous urban parks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Between Art and Nature / Graeme WynnIntroduction: Knowing Nature through History1 Before Stanley Park2 Making the Park Public3 Improving Nature4 The City in the Park5 Restoring NatureConclusion: Reconciliation with DisturbanceNotes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Sean Kheraj
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9780774824255
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-2425-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Nature | History | Society; Nature - History - Society; Nature | History | Society; Nature History Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous