I noticed this event through a freinds' facebook page and thought I'd contribute to the debate.
My own contribution (consisting of a surprisingly unbalanced anti-social approach) is awaiting approval from site admin but my comments regarding divergent assumptions on the part of a small collection of participants of the event are here:
Urban Wilderness Action Center » Blog Archive » Quiet Within the Noise: "It is interesting to observe the different culturo-social definitions which people are placing on the term ‘wilderness’. An interesting read on the divergent attitudes to ‘landscape’ is IMAGINED COUNTRY; SOCIETY CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT by John Rennie Short. In it he addresses the concepts of Wilderness versus City versus Landscape, and then conducts Historo-cultural case studies in ‘English Novels’, The ‘American “Western”, and Australian Landscape Painting.
The qualitative and political connotations we attached to our definitions of an Urban Wilderness will greatly effect the outcome and methods we pursue to achieve it."
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