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The work that parks do
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The work that parks do
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urban environmental management and its alternatives
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Gabriel
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Nathaniel Joseph
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1978-
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St. Martin
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Kevin
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Kevin St. Martin
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chair
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Schroeder
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Richard
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Lake
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Robert
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Brownlow
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Alec Brownlow
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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As cities come to be seen as both the source of and the possible solution to a variety of environmental concerns, and as hubs of economic activity, it is increasingly important to understand the shifting meanings that are applied to them, their economies, and their connection to the non-human world. In this dissertation, I examine the city as a site of environmental discourse formation, where knowledge about the environment is produced, shaped, and changed, and where notions of “nature” and “society” develop in conjunction with an emerging understanding of environmental responsibility and identity. Through an examination of the establishment of urban parks in Philadelphia from the 19th century to the present, this project sheds light on the processes through which the urban and the natural have been and continue to be constituted. The central concern of this project is to understand how and why a particular knowledge of urban nature emerged, to uncover the techniques employed that produce and reinforce it, and to trace the positioning of subjects within urban, economic, and environmental discourses. To do this, I identify the sites in which this discourse is (re)produced, the disciplinary techniques and specific practices that produce parks as unique kinds of spaces or landscapes in the city, and the consequences of these framings for the way cities are imagined. I employ a range of research methods that includes text analysis, visual discourse analysis, participant observation, and focus group interviewing techniques.
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Geography
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xii, 223 p. : ill.
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by Nathaniel Joseph Gabriel
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Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History
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Political ecology--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History
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ETD doctoral
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Gabriel
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Nathaniel
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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