Till, Karen E. (2001) New Urbanism and Nature: Green Marketing and the Neotraditional Community. Urban Geography, 22 (3). pp. 220-248. ISSN 0272-3638
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Abstract
A central goal of New Urbanism (NU) is to provide alternatives to suburbs through
ecologically sound designs and more natural communities. This article situates NU environmental
rhetoric culturally and analyzes why this form of nature is being promoted now. I argue that
NU anthropocentric understandings of nature reflect and resonate with dominant mainstream
environmental ideas in American culture. To understand why NU planners may uncritically
adopt these socially and spatially limited understandings of nature, I discuss the institutional
contexts of the planning profession. For various reasons, planners historically have understood
nature in geographically restricted ways, as Utopian garden, mappable data, and consumer product.
More recently, NU ideals of community have been defined by representations of nature that
may be construed by consumers as a form of green politics. This article concludes by stressing
the need for further research and advocating more inclusive understandings of human-environment
relations in the planning process
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | New Urbanism; mainstream; environmentalism; planning profession; green marketing; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 9027 |
Identification Number: | 10.2747/0272-3638.22.3.220 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Karen Till |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2017 17:02 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Urban Geography |
Publisher: | Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/9027 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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