The Re-Enchantment of Wilderness and Urban Aesthetics
According to the essence of industrial civilization, wilderness is bound to disenchantment. However, in the ecological civilization era, based on the demands of ecological balance, we must reserve a certain degree of wilderness in urban environment. Therefore, we need to bring back enchantment to ae...
| Subtitles: | "Nature, Wilderness, and Civilization: Perspectives from Chinese Scholars" |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas
2020
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Environmental ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 213-221 |
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| Summary: | According to the essence of industrial civilization, wilderness is bound to disenchantment. However, in the ecological civilization era, based on the demands of ecological balance, we must reserve a certain degree of wilderness in urban environment. Therefore, we need to bring back enchantment to aesthetic appreciation of wilderness. On the surface, the re-enchantment of wilderness seems to be a regression of agricultural civilization; however, in fact, it is a transcendental development of agricultural civilization. In recent years, there have been some deviations in the application of "garden urbanism" and "landscape urbanism" have existed in contemporary Chinese urban landscaping. To some extent, the recovery of wilderness is a major mission in Chinese urban construction. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics202042321 |