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Title: | Review of 'The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place.' Edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster. University of Georgia Press: Athens. 2012. US$24.95; Hardcover US$69.95; Kindle US$25.85. ISBN: 978-0-8203-3592-6 | Contributor(s): | Harris, Stephen (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15594 | Abstract: | The central illustration in Ebenezer Howard's innovative urban design plan, 'Garden City', possesses the elegant symmetries of a mandala - a concentric pattern in which circling spheres of human communities are arranged evenly along radial lines as if in harmonised planetary orbit. Created in 1902 as a solution to the congestion and environmental ill-effects of industrialised London, Howard's elegantly abstract diagram also pictures an innovative ideology: the 'Garden City', in both name and image, proposes a futuristic model of urban collectivism based on implicitly natural ('garden') principles, what we might call a mode of yeoman communalism designed to replace, or perhaps more correctly, emplace the offensive congeries (in Howard's view) of inner city London. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, v.2, p. 109-111 | Publisher: | Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture - Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ) | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1839-843X | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220303 Environmental Philosophy 200204 Cultural Theory 200525 Literary Theory |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 500304 Environmental philosophy 470207 Cultural theory 470514 Literary theory |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950305 Conserving Natural Heritage 950203 Languages and Literature |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130203 Literature 130404 Conserving natural heritage 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aslec-anz/article/view/2962 |
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