这本书探讨了自然意识形态在城市和郊区扩张中的作用。它考察了大都市边缘住宅开发的讽刺之处，在那里，对“自然”的追求将居民带到了他们想象逃离的世界的更深处——联邦快递、技术中介的通信、全球供应链，全球市场的匿名性——以及exurbia的许多核心特征——非常低密度的住宅用地、怪兽住宅，以及将森林或农村土地转换为住房——导致了exurbia的社会和环境美学试图避免的问题。这本书展示了这种矛盾——生活在绿色景观中，并保护绿色景观免受城市化影响——是如何在自然意识形态中被抓住和表现出来的，以及这种意识形态又是如何构成和由正在城市化的景观构成的。
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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl
This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape―of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace―and where many of the central features of exurbia―very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing―contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction―to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization―gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.
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