TY - BOOK ID - 46173495 TI - Urbanizing nature : actors and agency (dis)connecting cities and nature since 1500 AU - Soens, Tim AU - Schott, Dieter AU - Toyka-Seid, Michael AU - Munck, Bert de PY - 2020 SN - 9780367110864 9780429024726 9780367662509 0367110865 042902472X 0367662507 042965622X 0429658664 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Menselijke ecologie. Sociale biologie KW - Sociale geografie KW - Geschiedenis van Europa KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Human ecology. Social biology KW - Social geography KW - History of Europe KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Cities and towns KW - Urban ecology KW - Urban environment KW - Social ecology KW - Sociology, Urban KW - History KW - Environmental aspects KW - Urbanization KW - Human ecology KW - Nature KW - History. KW - Effect of human beings on UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46173495 AB - What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natural disaster". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature" as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ER -