Journal article
The Transgressive Urban Forest: An Ecological Aesthetic for the Anthropocene
Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.88(3), pp.405-412
11/30/2021
DOI: 10.1080/01944363.2021.1975556
Abstract
City dwellers experience urban nature as controlled, romanticized, healthy, and disconnected from the global ecological crisis. The landscape aesthetics of ecological urbanism convey the message that cities can be integrated into natural ecosystems. We challenge this notion and propose alternative aesthetic principles of ecological provocation: a transgressive urban forestry model in which trees disrupt streetscapes to express the ecological struggles of the Anthropocene and humans experience the wildness, power, and fragility of nature. This new urban landscape aesthetic, inspired by architectural innovations, centers on concepts of unkempt wildness, liberated insurgent trees, furcated forest shards, and exposed decomposition.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Transgressive Urban Forest: An Ecological Aesthetic for the Anthropocene
- Creators
- Lucie A. Laurian - University of IowaErnest Sternberg - University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkNadia Voigt da Mata - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.88(3), pp.405-412
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/01944363.2021.1975556
- ISSN
- 0194-4363
- eISSN
- 1939-0130
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/30/2021
- Academic Unit
- School of Planning and Public Affairs; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984270200902771
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