The Gaia Hypothesis, first proposed by James Lovelock and later expanded by Bruno Latour, describes Earth as a self-regulating system where living and non-living processes interact to maintain conditions for life. Gaia is not nature as backdrop but an active, dynamic assemblage. Bruno Latour warns that Gaia is not a benevolent mother or harmonious organism. It is unstable, reactive, sometimes violent—a force that resists control and reminds us of our fragility. Gaia disrupts the old image of a passive environment waiting for human use, showing instead a restless actor that pushes back.
When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]
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