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" Dense Ecologies/City and Bay Student Projects "
Anderson, Mark; de Monchaux, Nicholas; Gastil, Ray; Smout, Mark; Videmsky, Laci
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AL
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940219
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LA8s5825mj
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English
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Anderson, Mark; de Monchaux, Nicholas; Gastil, Ray; Smout, Mark; Videmsky, Laci
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Dense Ecologies/City and Bay Student Projects [Article]\ Anderson, Mark; de Monchaux, Nicholas; Gastil, Ray; Smout, Mark; Videmsky, Laci
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Room One Thousand
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Issue 3
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2015
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From the effects of hydraulic mining in the 19th century, through the combined effects of bay fill in the 20th, to the de-industrialized (and often demilitarized) brownfields of the early 21st, the San Francisco Bay is an exemplary crucible of the often-fraught relationship between cities and the larger ecology that support them. And as the margin’s of today’s bay begin to be returned to a “natural” state through extensive man-made remediation, we seek to question whether the bay can also be a new vessel, of a new kind of relationship between cities and ecologies; one that emphasizes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between urban civilization and natural wild, and avoids oversimplification and image-making in favor of the real complexities of cities and landscapes developing together. As noted by William Cronon, a skeptical attitude about “Nature” is not at all a rejection of the ideals of sustainability and ecological survival; rather, it might be vital to them...
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