| 书目名称 | Urban Eco-Communities in Australia | | 副标题 | Real Utopian Respons | | 编辑 | Liam Cooper,Hans A. Baer | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides in-depth accounts of the inner working of two pioneering Australian inner urban eco-communities.Scrutinises urban eco-villages through the contextual lenses of utopianism and sustainability.O | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbate issues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Urban Eco-villages in Australia; Sustainable Communities in Australia; Urban Ecotopianism; Ecotopian Pr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1168-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-4579-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-1168-0 | | copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 |
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