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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
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Metropolitan children’s outdoor perspectives and the changing nature of green areas: Ruralization of urban space or reconceptualization of rurality?
- 2014
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Ingår i: The active city: Unleashing the recreational potential of space, Conference and Workshops, University of Warmia and Mazury, 23-25 April 2014, Olsztyn, Poland.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Throughout the developed world, many areas are in economic, social, and visible transition. Such transition is, to a large extent, the result of progressive urbanization, perhaps one of the most important human activities impacting the environment at all scales and levels. With the resource-based economy in decline in favor of greater economic diversity, various areas have gradually shifted from being a landscape of production to a landscape of consumption. One of these spheres includes the ever greater demands for recreational space. Nevertheless, the perspective of children in this respect has largely passed unnoticed. In Sweden there is a strong notion that children and nature belong to each other. This idea is likely to be one of the driving forces behind urban sprawl, with parents longing for suburban dwelling, where the traffic is subdued and green areas abundant. Meanwhile, a growing number of children now reside in inner-city apartments of major metropolitan areas. This raises questions about the opportunities for children to spend time in and experience green areas nearby their homes. In this respect, the conceptual content of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ (the two major axes that guide most development strategies) are becoming conceptually blurred, in a spectrum of more or less objective and subjective dimensions. Trying to square these tensions provides challenges for policy-makers not least considering their implications for policy: what to preserve, what to develop, and, most importantly, for whom? The following presentation draws from a study carried out within a dissertation project that concerned metropolitan children’s relationship with nearby nature. 29 parents were interviewed, representing a total of 60 children. The issue of how parents perceive their own and their children’s contact with nature in relation to their dwellings is summed up in four different outdoors perspectives. These, in turn, could act as interesting starting points for further discussions on the “nature” of rural-urban relations from the largely neglected perspective of children.
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- Krzysztofik, Robert, et al.
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Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning
- 2017
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Ingår i: Quaestiones Geographicae. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2081-6383 .- 0137-477X .- 2082-2103. ; 36:4, s. 29-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with the ways of categorising landscapes as ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ using a physicalist approach, where these terms have special meaning. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the question whether such a division is still meaningful with regard to anthropogenic landscapes, not least in spatial planning. The concerns raised in this paper depart from the increasingly complicated structure of geographical space, including that of anthropogenic landscapes. Our standpoint is illustrated using cases of landscape ambiguities from Poland, Germany, Romania and Greece. Leaning on frameworks of physicalist (mechanicistic) theory, this paper suggests an explanation to the outlined semantic conflicts. This is done by pointing to the relationality between the impact of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the specifics of socio-economic development, as well as the varying landscape forms that emerge from the differences within that development.
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