Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15594
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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