The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the Terrain

I. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections

1. In Search of the Natural City – Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
2. Can Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration – W.S.K. Cameron
3. The “Gruing” of Cities – Frank Cunningham
4. “My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City – Peter Timmerman

II. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives

5. From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective – Stephen Bede Scharper
6. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East – Bruce V. Foltz
7. Dao in the City – Vincent Shen
8. Biocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach – Kenneth Maly

III. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications

9. Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City – Hilary Cunningham
10. Other Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes – Richard Oddie
11. Ecofeminist “Cityzenry” – Trish Glazebrook
12. Sustainable Urbanization – John B. Cobb, Jr.
13. “Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” – Shubhra Gururani

IV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis

14. Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors – Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwas
15. Seeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds – David Seamon
16. The City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale – Robert Mugerauer
17. Natural Cities, Unnatural Energy – Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav Kumar
18. Children and Nature in the City – Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Conclusion