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Urban Greening and Human-Wildlife Relations in Philadelphia: From Animal Control to Multispecies Coexistence?
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Urban Greening and Human-Wildlife Relations in Philadelphia: From Animal Control to Multispecies Coexistence?

Christian Hunold
Environmental values, v 29(1), pp 67-87
01 Feb 2020

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Environmental Sciences & Ecology Environmental Studies Ethics Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Social Sciences Social Sciences - Other Topics
City-scale urban greening is expanding wildlife habitat in previously less hospitable urban areas. Does this transformation also prompt a reckoning with the longstanding idea that cities are places intended to satisfy primarily human needs? I pose this question in the context of one of North America's most ambitious green infrastructure programmes to manage urban runoff: Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters. Given that the city's green infrastructure plans have little to say about wildlife, I investigate how wild animals fit into urban greening professionals' conceptions of the urban. 1 argue that practitioners relate to urban wildlife via three distinctive frames: 1) animal control, 2) public health and 3) biodiversity, and explore the implications of each for peaceful human- wildlife coexistence in 'greened' cities.

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