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Urban place : reconnecting with the natural world / edited by Peggy F. Bartlett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and industrial environmentsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.Description: viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262025868 (alk. paper)
  • 9780262025867 (alk. paper)
  • 0262524430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780262524438 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 22
LOC classification:
  • HT241 .U726 2005
Other classification:
  • 21.74
  • 42.90
Contents:
Reconnecting with place : faculty and the Piedmont Project at Emory University / Peggy F. Barlett -- Lifting spirits : creating gardens in California domestic violence shelters / Susan M. Stuart -- Community gardens in New York City : place, community, and individuality / Malve von Hassell -- Urban connections to locally grown produce / Susan L. Andreatta -- Missouri Regional Cuisines Project : connecting to place in the restaurant / Elizabeth Barham, David Lind, and Lewis Jett -- Urban volunteers and the environment : forest and prairie restoration / Robert L. Ryan and Robert E. Grese -- Nature, memory, and nation : New York's Latino gardens and casitas / Barbara Deutsch Lynch and Rima Brusi -- On the sublime in nature in cities / Robert Rotenberg -- Forest, savanna, city : evolutionary landscapes and human functioning / William C. Sullivan -- Health of places, the wealth of evidence / Howard Frumkin -- Preference, restoration, and meaningful action in the context of nearby nature / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Concluding remarks : nature and health in the urban environment / Jules Pretty and Peggy F. Barlett.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Circulating Books Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Main Collection HT241 .U726 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3182700012732
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconnecting with place : faculty and the Piedmont Project at Emory University / Peggy F. Barlett -- Lifting spirits : creating gardens in California domestic violence shelters / Susan M. Stuart -- Community gardens in New York City : place, community, and individuality / Malve von Hassell -- Urban connections to locally grown produce / Susan L. Andreatta -- Missouri Regional Cuisines Project : connecting to place in the restaurant / Elizabeth Barham, David Lind, and Lewis Jett -- Urban volunteers and the environment : forest and prairie restoration / Robert L. Ryan and Robert E. Grese -- Nature, memory, and nation : New York's Latino gardens and casitas / Barbara Deutsch Lynch and Rima Brusi -- On the sublime in nature in cities / Robert Rotenberg -- Forest, savanna, city : evolutionary landscapes and human functioning / William C. Sullivan -- Health of places, the wealth of evidence / Howard Frumkin -- Preference, restoration, and meaningful action in the context of nearby nature / Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan -- Concluding remarks : nature and health in the urban environment / Jules Pretty and Peggy F. Barlett.

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