Issue Twenty-six (7, 2), June, 1996

Table of Contents

 

House Organ 1

Urban Ecology

Editors' Preface

By Franz Hartmann and Roger Keil for the editors 3

Cities, Nature and Socialism: Towards an Urban

Agenda for Action and Research

By Stefan Kipfer, Franz Hartmann and Sara Marino

for the Toronto CNS Editorial Group 5

Essays

Zoöpolis

By Jennifer Wolch 21

New (Sub)Urbanism: Countersprawl or

Repackaging the Product

By Ute Angelika Lehrer and Richard Milgrom 49

The City As a Hybrid: On Nature, Society and

Cyborg Urbanization

By Erik Swyngedouw 65

Street Ecology

Water Pirates and the Infinite Suburb

By Mike Davis 81

Debate

City and Ecology

By Ludwig Trepl 85

Urban Perspectives of Social-Ecological

Urban Research

By Thomas Jahn 95

Artwork 102

Eppur4 Si Muove

The Return of Old Diseases and the Appearance of

New Ones

By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 103

Poem

Cracks in the Pavement: The Diary of an Urban Wildflower

By John Sandlos 109

Ecological Planning

The Failure of Ecological Planning in Barcelona

By Joan Martínez Alier 113

Culture and Politics of Nature in the City: The Case of

Berlin's "Green Wedge"

By Jouni Häkli 125

 

Ripples In Clio's Pond

Bali and the Green Witch of the West

By J. Donald Hughes 139

Conference Report

Gender-Sensitive and Sustainable Urban Development: A

Report from the German National Round Table of Women

Planners and Architects for the Second United Nations

Conference on Human Settlements

By Kerstin Zillman 147

American Landscapes 155

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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