Natural City

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a professor and dean emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University. Stephen Bede Scharper is an associate professor with the Centre for the Environment and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

‘This collection seeks to bring fresh perspectives that will help conceptualize more sustainable cities for future… If you’re interested in cities and environment, you’ll find plenty that intrigues.’ - Tyrone Burke (Canadian Geographic, June 2012) ‘This collection is excellent… All essays are engaging and thought provoking… Highly recommended.’ - P.L. Kantor (Choice Magazine, vol 49:10:2012) ‘The Natural City brings together essays on the thought-provoking topic of the “natural city”... It directs the conversation of environmental philosophy toward a new perspective on how culture and nature are interconnected.’- Forrest Clingerman (Environmental Philosophy; vol 9:02:2012) ‘This collection manages the challenge of discussing complicated concepts in clear language, successfully balancing a depth of analysis and accessibility of concepts…The Natural City starts the dialogue on reintegrating the natural with the urban; an essential topic for the survival of human and non-human alike.’ - Madison Van West, UnderCurrents (Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, vol 18:2014)

• AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroduction: The Natural City: Cultivating the TerrainI. Adjusting Our Vision: Some Philosophical Reflections In Search of the Natural City – Ingrid Leman StefanovicCan Cities Be Both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding an Apparently Oxymoronic Aspiration – W.S.K. CameronThe “Gruing” of Cities – Frank Cunningham“My Streets Are My Ideas of Imagination”: Literature and the Theme of the Natural City – Peter TimmermanII. From the Stars to the Street: Cosmological Perspectives From Community to Communion: The Natural City in Biotic and Cosmological Perspective – Stephen Bede ScharperSailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East – Bruce V. FoltzDao in the City – Vincent ShenBiocracy in the City: A Contemporary Buddhist Approach – Kenneth MalyIII. Expanding Our Collective Horizons: Societal Implications Gated Ecologies and Possible Urban Worlds: From the Global City to the Natural City – Hilary CunninghamOther Voices: Acoustic Ecology and Urban Soundscapes – Richard OddieEcofeminist “Cityzenry” – Trish GlazebrookSustainable Urbanization – John B. Cobb, Jr.“Troubled Nature: Some Reflections on the Changing Nature of the Millennial City (Gurgaon), India” – Shubhra GururaniIV: Building on the Vision: Reflecting on Praxis Urban Place as an Expression of the Ancestors – Bill Woodworth Raweno:kwasSeeing and Animating the City: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds – David SeamonThe City: A Legacy of Organism-environment Interaction at Every Scale – Robert MugerauerNatural Cities, Unnatural Energy – Bryan W. Karney and Gaurav KumarChildren and Nature in the City – Sarah J. King and Ingrid Leman StefanovicConclusion