Project MUSE®: Environment, Space, Place - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Environment, Space, Place.daily12026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 9 (2017) through current issueLatest Articles: Environment, Space, PlaceTWOProject MUSE®Environment, Space, Place2068-96162066-5377Latest articles in Environment, Space, Place. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Global Greenbelts: Population Thinking and Sprawl-Control in the US and the UK
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974436
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Greenbelting cities is a well-known planning measure associated with Ebenezer Howard and the Garden Cities movement of the early twentieth century when planners were asserting both their professional authority and harnessing larger budgets for infrastructure.1 Healthful recreation and the aesthetic beauty of landscaped spaces were all goals of planned greenbelts that buttressed cities as part of the Edwardian Garden City movement2 championed by Howard.3 The idea of a ‘green necklace’ around an urban area to demarcate where human settlement ended was seen as a key means to limit outward growth,4 particularly in London, while also designating new areas of suburban real estate development.5 The movement, like many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallGlobal Greenbelts: Population Thinking and Sprawl-Control in the US and the UK2025-11-09text/htmlen-USGlobal Greenbelts: Population Thinking and Sprawl-Control in the US and the UK2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®1016562026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09A Rumeli City in Anatolia: Environmental nostalgia in the design of early republican Ankara
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974437
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This article considers ways in which forms of environmental nostalgia influenced the urban design of Ankara, capital of the Republic of Turkey, as it was conceived and built during the 1920s and 1930s. Although the capital city was officially framed as a rejection of the Ottoman past, an “anti-Istanbul,” and a refutation of Turkish cultural links to southeastern Europe (Rumelia; “the Balkans), I argue that lived experiences, “place memories,” and nostalgia for rural landscapes were essential features of the construction of early Republican Ankara as an epitomized Turkish national space. Scholars have explored the relationship between Turkish nationalist movements–both before and after Turkey’s War of Independence
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallA Rumeli City in Anatolia: Environmental nostalgia in the design of early republican Ankara2025-11-09text/htmlen-USA Rumeli City in Anatolia: Environmental nostalgia in the design of early republican Ankara2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®1003122026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09The Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974438
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The knitted blanket (fig. 1) is the product of a workshop made with a group of elderly women residents from Afd. 1, a social housing estate located on the west coast of Denmark. The workshop was the culmination of a four-month-long ethnographic fieldwork aiming at understanding residents’ relations to each other and the built environment in light of a highly contested regeneration project of the estate courtyards. According to residents, most social activities used to take place in the courtyards, but after the regeneration, social life had, to a large degree, disappeared. In an attempt to leave this critical issue at rest and get the social ‘back to basics,’ the workshop’s task was to knit something that would
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallThe Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate2025-11-09text/htmlen-USThe Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®1402532026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09Place Ballet as Place Making
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974439
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I would begin by elucidating ‘place ballet,’ the topic of this paper, by an example from The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, the renowned urban planning theorist who seems to have been the first to use the evocative metaphor of a street or sidewalk “ballet,”The stretch of Hudson Street where I live is each day the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet. I make my own first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out the garbage can, surely a prosaic occupation but I enjoy my part . . . as the droves of junior high school students walk by the center of the stage dropping candy wrappers. . . . While I sweep up the wrappers I watch the other rituals of the morning: Mr. Halpert unlocking
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallPlace Ballet as Place Making2025-11-09text/htmlen-USPlace Ballet as Place Making2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®786812026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry by Joshua Dicaglio (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974440
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There were several instances while reading this book when I realized it was not a book at all, but a vibrating quark—rather, an octillion or so of them. Then there were instances when I realized I was not “I” at all, but a spiraling arm of the Milky Way. Such was the effect of reading Joshua DiCaglio’s Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry, an impressive book with two clear tasks: to reintroduce scale to the humanities and to cultivate an affective orientation towards scalar experience through the tools of rhetoric and mysticism. Scale is fundamentally strange, and it challenges basic assumptions about what objects, subjects, and relations are. It is also not a new concept: many disciplines, from physics to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallScale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry by Joshua Dicaglio (review)2025-11-09text/htmlen-USScale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry by Joshua Dicaglio (review)2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®175732026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09No More Fossils by dominic boyer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974441
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Dominic Boyer’s No More Fossils is a compelling and thought-provoking exploration of humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels and the possibilities induced by a transformative move away from this dependence. Part of the University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners: Ideas First series, the book mixes incisive criticism with imaginative speculation, offering a rich narrative on the historical roots, cultural entanglements, and prospects of energy systems. Boyer’s work invites readers to reconsider the deeply entrenched structures of fossil-fueled modernity and to imagine a world freed from its obligations. The book opens with a deeply personal yet universally resonant reflection in the chapter “Living with Fossils.”
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallNo More Fossils by dominic boyer (review)2025-11-09text/htmlen-USNo More Fossils by dominic boyer (review)2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®92082026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Hygiene by kelly dombroski (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974442
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Hygiene is not merely a health practice but an intricate assemblage of various practices that have emerged within different social and cultural contexts and are passed down through generations.1 In contemporary discourse, hygiene is often generalized as a universal standard, with the practices of developed countries or the Global North often regarded as superior. This approach overlooks the significance of understanding the spatial and cultural dimensions of hygiene practices and the value of traditional knowledge, particularly from the “minority world.” In Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Hygiene, Kelly Dombrosky addresses these issues and challenges the notion of a single, universal hygiene
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallCaring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Hygiene by kelly dombroski (review)2025-11-09text/htmlen-USCaring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Hygiene by kelly dombroski (review)2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®131322026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared D. Margulies (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/974443
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Jared D. Margulies is one of the most prominent scholars and intellectuals in the areas of conservation, political ecology, and environmental studies. His work spans topics such as the political ecology of animals, soil, and plants, with studies covering South Asia, East Africa, North America, and the UK. His research engages with regulations, the organization of legal frameworks, economic goals, and the processes of valuation and commodification of the environment. These themes are woven throughout his work. Yet, in his latest book, Margulies introduces a novel approach by shifting from his usual focus on state apparatuses, conservation, and biopolitics to a discussion of extimacy, psychoanalysis, geography, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/800/image/coversmallThe Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared D. Margulies (review)2025-11-09text/htmlen-USThe Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared D. Margulies (review)2025-11-092025TWOProject MUSE®94082026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002025-11-09