tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839922450198375320.post5050618637595153498..comments2023-03-27T10:17:22.922-05:00Comments on 10 Things Wrong With Environmental Thinking: Is All Ecology Urban Ecology? Reading Henri Lefebvre’s “The Urban Revolution”.DublinSoilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746847572672641393noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839922450198375320.post-29867020901371305532012-02-01T14:57:45.983-06:002012-02-01T14:57:45.983-06:00Paul Burgess
Environmental Science, BS
Senior, DeP...Paul Burgess<br />Environmental Science, BS<br />Senior, DePaul University<br /><br />This blog entry by Liam Heneghan focused on the urban communities and how their evolution has affected everyone in a major way. The communications between the old world focused on the soil and agricultural practices is no longer the norm, and addressed as so in the book by Henri Lefebvre. Lefebvre had many different impacts on the European communities during the 20th century because his writings were able to touch thousands of people via the mercantile city that he discusses in the book. <br /><br />Dr. Heneghan dissects this book in a manner that focuses on the the interaction between each of the individual communities that make up society: political, mercantile, and industrial. The three different cities as Lefebvre do their best to avoid the others influences, yet are not mutually exclusive. This is a very easy concept to understand and the author refers to it as the “urban society”, but today this would be called globalization. Dr. Heneghan is less interested in the globalization of the people, but rather the ecological impacts due to globalization. The urban community takes very little care of the environment in order to make money and build buildings. As a result, the urban ecological community has a great deal to grow and develop that may not have been considered in years past. The industrial city is the most influential on ecology because it is using nature to produce goods and food consumed by people across state and national boundaries. The goods made by industries are causing a major impact on the environment that can be limited through the development of strong urban communities. The goods do not have to disappear, but the travel and expenses can be diminished. Urban ecology and agriculture has great potential to cross the city boundaries that Lefebvre has established by creating an urban “countryside.” This countryside will reduce the lost resources in the industrial city, while stimulating the mercantile city through new methods of business and production.Paul Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15272029802283499456noreply@blogger.com