Paving Paradise

Exploring an Urban "Partnership-with-Nature" Frame

Bibliographic Data

ID2277422
AuthorsStella M Čapek (0000-0002-1544-2915, Hendrix College, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume53
Issue4
Pages566-584
Publication date2012-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01246.x
OpenAlexW2127790267
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This article explores the possibility of a “partnership-with-nature” frame as experienced through interactions with urban “green” buildings. The discussion is situated in the broader context of an emerging green building movement and the cultural role played by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification framework and its supporting networks. Examples are drawn from an ethnographic case study of a particular green building, the Heifer International headquarters in Little Rock. More broadly, the article reflects on how nature and culture are coming together in new ways in our real and imagined urban spaces

Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Certification · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Frame (networking) · General partnership · Geography · Paradise · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History

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