Urban Ecology And Intervention In The 21st Century Americas

Author : Allison M. Schifani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000290769

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Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas by Allison M. Schifani Pdf

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

Author : Brian J. L. Berry,John D. Kasarda
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCAL:B4915811

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Contemporary Urban Ecology by Brian J. L. Berry,John D. Kasarda Pdf

Author : J. Morgan Grove,Mary L. Cadenasso,Steward T. Pickett,Gary E. Machlis,William R. Burch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300101133

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The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology by J. Morgan Grove,Mary L. Cadenasso,Steward T. Pickett,Gary E. Machlis,William R. Burch Pdf

The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more. This important book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on how to study, build, and manage cities in innovative and sustainable ways.

Author : Jennifer S. Light
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002810872

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The Nature of Cities by Jennifer S. Light Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2009 Lewis Mumford Prize, Society for City and Regional Planning History In the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. Yet rural areas continued to hold favored status in the country’s political life. For prominent figures in the social sciences, city planning, and real estate who were anxious about the future of cities, this obsession with the agrarian past inspired a new campaign for urban reform. They called for ongoing programs of natural resource management to be extended to maintain and improve cities. Jennifer S. Light finds a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement. The professionals Light examines came to view America’s urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.

Author : Steward T. A. Pickett,Mary L. Cadenasso,J. Morgan Grove,Emma J. Rosi,Christopher M. Swan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Biotic communities
ISBN : 9780300238327

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Science for the Sustainable City by Steward T. A. Pickett,Mary L. Cadenasso,J. Morgan Grove,Emma J. Rosi,Christopher M. Swan Pdf

A presentation of key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study. In a world of over seven billion people-who mostly reside in cities and their suburbs and exurbs-the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneering program for modern urban social-ecological science, critical to the emerging theory of urban ecology. After two decades of research, education, and community engagement in this complex system, there are insights to share, generalizations to examine, and gaps to highlight. This timely volume synthesizes the key empirical findings, melds the perspectives of different disciplines, and celebrates the accomplishments of interacting with diverse communities and institutions in improving the understanding of Baltimore's ecology. These widely applicable insights from Baltimore contribute to our understanding the ecology of other cities, provide a comparison for the global process of urbanization, and inform establishment of urban ecological research elsewhere. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and highly original, it gives voice to the wide array of specialists who have contributed to this living urban laboratory.

Author : Christopher G Boone,Michail Fragkias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400756663

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Urbanization and Sustainability by Christopher G Boone,Michail Fragkias Pdf

Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC.

Author : Rana Abughannam,Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon,Pallavi Swaranjali,Federica Goffi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003834113

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Architectures of Hiding by Rana Abughannam,Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon,Pallavi Swaranjali,Federica Goffi Pdf

Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are both hidden and revealed. With an urgency to amplify narratives that are overlooked, silenced and unacknowledged in and by architectural spaces, histories and theories, this book contends the need for a critical study of hiding in the context of architectural processes. It urges the understanding of inherent opportunities, power structures and covert strategies, whether socio-cultural, geo-political, environmental or economic, as they are related to their hidescapes – the constructed landscapes of our built environments participating in the architectures of hiding. Looking at and beyond the intentions and agency that architects possess, architectural spaces lend themselves as apparatuses for various forms of hiding and un(hiding). The examples explored in this book and the creative works presented in the interviews enclosed in the interludes of this publication cover a broad range of geographic and cultural contexts, discursively disclosing hidden aspects of architectural meaning. The book investigates the imaginative intrigue of concealing and revealing in design processes, along with moral responsibilities and ethical dilemmas inherent in crafting concealment through the making and reception of architecture.

Author : Peter Remien,Scott Slovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108877879

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Nature and Literary Studies by Peter Remien,Scott Slovic Pdf

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature's philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary representations of this concept evolved in response to colonialism, industrialization, and new forms of scientific knowledge. Surveying nature's diverse applications in twenty-first-century literary studies and critical theory, the volume seeks to reconcile nature's ideological baggage with its fundamental role in fostering appreciation of nonhuman being and agency. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is a key resource for students and professors seeking to understand nature's role in the environmental humanities.

Author : Henrik Ernstson,Sverker Sorlin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262353175

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Grounding Urban Natures by Henrik Ernstson,Sverker Sorlin Pdf

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of—and are shaped by—cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese “eco-city” Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker

Author : marina Alberti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387755106

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Advances in Urban Ecology by marina Alberti Pdf

This groundbreaking work is an attempt at providing a conceptual framework to synthesize urban and ecological dynamics into a common framework. The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role humans play in urban ecosystems. The development of an integrated urban ecological approach is crucial to advance ecological research and to help planners and managers solve complex urban environmental issues. This book is a major step forward.

Author : James Barilla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000362350

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Naturebot by James Barilla Pdf

Naturebot: Unconventional Visions of Nature presents a humanities-oriented addition to the literature on biomimetics and bioinspiration, an interdisciplinary field which investigates what it means to mimic nature with technology. This technology mirrors the biodiversity of nature and it is precisely this creation of technological metaphors for the intricate workings of the natural world that is the real subject of Naturebot. Over the course of the book, Barilla applies the narrative conventions of the nature writing genre to this unconventional vision of nature, contrasting the traditional tropes and questions of natural history with an expanding menagerie of creatures that defy conventional categories of natural and artificial. In keeping with its nature writing approach, the book takes us to where we can encounter these creatures, examining the technological models and the biotic specimens that inspired them. In doing so, it contemplates the future of the human relationship to the environment, and the future of nature writing in the 21st century. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of biomimetics, environmental literary studies/ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities.

Author : Kimberly Etingoff
Publisher : Apple Academic Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771882816

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Urban Ecology by Kimberly Etingoff Pdf

With increasing global urbanization, the environments and ecologies of cities are often perceived to suffer. While pollution and destruction of green space and species may occur, cities also remain part of natural systems. Cities provide natural processes necessary for survival for humans and other living organisms in urban areas. Urban ecology elucidates some of these processes and sheds light on their importance to healthy, fulfilling urban livelihoods. Urban Ecology: Strategies for Green Infrastructure and Land Use provides background on issues relating to urban ecology and urban natural processes. The first section covers the types, values, and recognition of ecosystem services provided by natural processes in urban areas. The second section details the importance and potential of green spaces in urban areas. The third section focuses on biodiversity traits of cities, and the ways in which urbanization affects biodiversity indicators. Finally, the fourth section covers some of the tools and approaches available for urban planners and designers concerned with improving or maintaining urban environments and the services they provide. This easily accessible reference volume offers a comprehensive guide to this rapidly growing field. Case studies and up-to-date research provide urban planners with new options for creating cities that will meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Also appropriate for graduate students who are preparing for careers related to urban planning, this compendium captures and integrates the current work being done in this vitally important field.

Author : Suneel Jethani
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800433380

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The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology by Suneel Jethani Pdf

The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of wearable technology to examine how datafication processes redefine the body, and explores what this means for the design, administration and study of self-tracking systems.

Author : Gail Hansen,Joseli Macedo
Publisher : University of Florida Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1683402529

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Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners by Gail Hansen,Joseli Macedo Pdf

This volume offers a wealth of information and examples for those looking to help bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on the Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309158954

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Pathways to Urban Sustainability by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on the Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems Pdf

More than half of the world's people now live in cities. In the United States, the figure is 80 percent. It is worthwhile to consider how this trend of increased urbanization, if inevitable, could be made more sustainable. One fundamental shortcoming of urban research and programs is that they sometimes fail to recognize urban areas as systems. Current institutions and actors are not accustomed to exploring human-environment interactions, particularly at an urban-scale. The fact is that these issues involve complex interactions, many of which are not yet fully understood. Thus a key challenge for the 21st century is this: How can we develop sustainable urban systems that provide healthy, safe and affordable environments for the growing number of Americans living in cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas? To address this question, the National Research Council organized a workshop exploring the landscape of urban sustainability research programs in the United States. The workshop, summarized in this volume, was designed to allow participants to share information about the activities and planning efforts of federal agencies, along with related initiatives by universities, the private sector, nongovernmental groups, state and local agencies, and international organizations. Participants were encouraged to explore how urban sustainability can move beyond analyses devoted to single disciplines and sectors to systems-level thinking and effective interagency cooperation. To do this, participants examined areas of potential coordination among different R&D programs, with special consideration given to how the efforts of federal agencies can best complement and leverage the efforts of other key stakeholders. Pathways to Urban Sustainability offers a broad contextual summary of workshop presentations and discussions for distribution to federal agencies, regional organizations, academic institutions, think tanks and other groups engaged in urban research.