In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This
article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted …

In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to
incorporate the city's traditional 'outsides' into urban research. Urban political ecology …

In recent years,“urban greening” has become a new keyword in urban policy and practice,
used to describe a proliferation of urban quality of life and environmental sustainability …

This article maps urban reform movements onto 'long waves:'consistently patterned
technological and economic cycles that repeat over time. Using the example of the United …

The industrial past has become an inescapable and fundamental component of the identity
of the Ruhr region. Throughout the twentieth century the Ruhr acquired a diverse public self …

Until the 1980s, the Ruhr Valley, Germany, was dominated by images of desolate
landscapes, determining its perception as West Germany's black and dirty industrial region …

SGR–Schriften siedlungen regionale Identifikationspunkte darstellen. Auch die grüne
Metropole Ruhr macht mit neuer Naturästhetik, Biodiversität und Artenvielfalt sowie einem …

The impact of climate hazards has dramatically expanded over the past decades, producing
a complex field of injustices. Many scholars describe climate injustice as a function of the …

This chapter focusses on the role of “nature” in representations of the postindustrial
landscape of the Ruhr region. Today the green layers of the Ruhr are formative to new …

This dissertation examines the development of what I call “post-industrial landscape
aesthetics” in the transformation of German coal mines into sites for walking tours …