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Competing Discourses Of Nature In Exurbia., K. Valentine Cadieux
Competing Discourses Of Nature In Exurbia., K. Valentine Cadieux
K. Valentine Cadieux
This paper explores different ways that the category of nature is used in addressing landscape changes associated with exurbia and exurbanization. Nature is an important category in the practices and representations that residents and planners use to construct and maintain exurban landscapes. However, common ways of mobilizing nature in exurban planning discourses oftenobstruct better discussion, rather than facilitate it. Invoking nature can make planning processes more difficult by providing a means for naturalizing planning decisions and also by exacerbating struggles over whose nature will be managed in what ways. More explicitly framing what is meant by nature in exurban …
Mediating ‘Lifestyle’: Producing Spectacular And Mundane Urban Edges Through Landscape Analysis, K. Valentine Cadieux
Mediating ‘Lifestyle’: Producing Spectacular And Mundane Urban Edges Through Landscape Analysis, K. Valentine Cadieux
K. Valentine Cadieux
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