%0 Journal Article %A Schliephake, Christopher Martin %T From green to brown landscapes—and back again: urban agriculture, ecology and Hae-jun Lee’s "Cast away on the moon" %D 2016 %@ 2171-9594 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27258 %X My essay looks at contemporary developments in urbanism that re-negotiate the place of nature in our cities. Looking at the example of bottom-up and top-down models of urban agriculture, two alternative approaches to urban systems are presented which try to re-embed them in the natural-material cycles of life. Firstly, the changes that have occurred in our urban landscapes (and our cultural images of them) since the age of industrialization are discussed, to uncover the socio-historical dimension of the subject. The second part analyzes the cultural urban ecology invoked in South Korean director Hae-jun Lee’s film Cast Away on the Moon(2009). As I show, the film imaginatively deals with these issues and invites a re-consideration of our urban lifestyles before the background of the question what place nature has in our cities and in how far working with the soil can lead to regeneration. %K Urban ecology %K Agriculture %K Farming %K Ecomedia %K Storytelling %K Ecología urbana %K Agricultura %K Cultivo %K Medios de comunicación ecologistas %K Narración %K Literatura %K Literature %K Medio ambiente %K Environmental science %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala