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Under the confluence of nomadic economics, technologies, and industries--commonly known as "suburban sprawl"--the city of Detroit, segregated and isolated, constitutes one of the great monuments to decay by a modernist city. It is perhaps the clearest and earliest example of the effects of a globalized economy and labor market. Urban Ecology contains a collection of projects generated by the International Center for Urban Ecology (iCUE), a nomadic laboratory for future cities. Since its founding in 1998 by Kyong Park, iCUE has accomplished five significant projects through international workshops like "Architecture of Resistance," installations, videos, and urban designs. The laboratory investigation promotes discourse on the decomposition and possible reconstitution of a "moving city"--a more useful term through which to identify a city like Detroit. iCUE's projects have taken anti-architectural and non-urban perspectives, using multi-disciplinary processes and integrated collaboration with local communities and activists. Urban Ecology brings together essays on Detroit and many other cities in crisis around the world.

Environmental planning --- Architecture --- ecology --- urban development --- 711.4 --- Detroit --- Michigan --- iCUE --- International Center for Urban Ecology --- Stedenbouw

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Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the maturation of urban study systems worldwide means interest in the urban environment as an agent of evolutionary change is rapidly increasing.We are presently witnessing the emergence of a new field of research in evolutionary biology. Despite its rapid global expansion, the urban environment has until now been a largely neglected study site among evolutionary biologists. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, it stands in stark contrast to the natural environments traditionally used as cornerstones for evolutionary ecology research.Urbanization can offer a great range of new opportunities to test for rapid evolutionary processes as a consequence of human activity, both because of replicate contexts for hypothesis testing, but also because cities are characterized by an array of easily quantifiable environmental axes of variation and thus testable agents of selection. Thanks to a wide possible breadth of inference (in terms of taxa) that may be studied, and a great variety of analytical methods, urban evolution has the potential to stand at a fascinating multi-disciplinary crossroad, enriching the field of evolutionary biology with emergent yet incredibly potent new research themes where the urban habitat is key.Urban Evolutionary Biology is an advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers studying the genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of urban environments. It is also highly relevant to urban ecologists and urban wildlife practitioners.

Evolution. Phylogeny --- General ecology and biosociology --- Urban animals. --- Biology. --- Animals. --- Biological Evolution. --- Ecology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Urban animals --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Urbanization. --- Écologie urbaine. --- Évolution (biologie).

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Environmental planning --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban forestry --- Urban policy --- Trees in cities --- Ecologie urbaine --- Foresterie urbaine --- Politique urbaine --- Arbres dans les villes --- Periodicals --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Écologie urbaine --- Urban forestry. --- Urban policy. --- Environmental Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Ecosystems & Ecology --- Biology --- Ecology

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Social ecology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- Human ecology --- Human ecology. --- Social ecology. --- Urbanization. --- Asia. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Urban environment --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Ecology --- Human beings --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Social sciences --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most people live, work and move? Can we keep what we love about suburban life and still save the environment? And what new methods of planning and building will be needed in the 21st century? Rejecting both economic and environmental or

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Sustainable development. --- Urban policy. --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- urban development --- durability --- sustainable architecture