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Berlin --- Germany --- urban ecology --- urban flora
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Environmental policy --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- China --- History
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City planning --- Human ecology --- Land use, Urban --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Environmental aspects
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City planning --- Community development, Urban --- Sustainable development --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- Environmental aspects --- International cooperation --- International cooperation --- Environmental aspects
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City planning --- Urbanization --- Sustainable development --- Community development, Urban --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation.
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A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment. The storm is here, crushed dams no longer hold, the savage seas come inland with a hop.Jacob van Hoddis As Mike Davis shows, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Beginning with a trip to New York's Ground Zero, Davis pairs the horror of lower Manhattan's falling skyscrapers with Las Vegas' delirious delight in blowing up its landmark hotels, where environmental terrorism is practiced in the name of urban development. We stop at "German Village," the Utah wasteland where Allied scientists once perfected their plans to destroy Berlin, then move on to Los Angeles, the frontline of a "Second Civil War" that lies waiting to be ignited in cities across the country. The title essay is an autopsy of the metropolis dead on a slab, with reflections on "bomber ecology" and "ghetto geomorphology." The final chapter, with accounts of Montreal and Auckland brought to their knees by ice storms and heat, warns that our urban infrastructures are as little prepared to deal with climate change as with car bombs and hijacked airliners.
Cities and towns --- Disasters --- Nature --- Social conflict --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban policy --- Effect of human beings on. --- 711.4 --- 316.334.56 --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Urbane sociologie
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Building the Ecological City puts forward solutions to the question - how can we build cities that provide an acceptable standard of living for their inhabitants without depleting the ecosystems and bio-geochemical cycles on which they depend? The book suggests and examines the concept of urban metabolism which characterizes the city as a set of interlinked systems of physical flows linking air, land, and water. A series of chapters looks at the production and management of waste, energy use and air emissions, water supply and management, urban land use, and air quality issues. Within the broader context of climate change, the book then considers a range of practical strategies for restoring the health of urban ecosystems from the remediation of 'brownfield' land to improving air quality and making better use of water resources.
City planning --- Sustainable development --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- 502.3 --- 711.4.093.86 --- 502.3 Nature and society. Nature conservation and protection in general --- Nature and society. Nature conservation and protection in general --- 711.4.093.86 Stadsplanning: bewoonbaarheid van steden --- Stadsplanning: bewoonbaarheid van steden --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Sustainable development. --- Environmental aspects.
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L'"écologie urbaine" exprime la demande sociale et politique en faveur d'une ville qui serait plus écologique et qui répondrait mieux à l'insatisfaction profonde de la société pour son cadre de vie. Or, l'urbanisme contemporain éprouve de grandes difficultés pour répondre à cette demande. L'objet de ce livre est de comprendre les raisons de cette incapacité, pour pouvoir les dépasser. En partant de l'histoire récente de l'écologie urbaine, les auteurs soulignent la nécessité de retrouver dans l'histoire de l'urbanisme les éléments porteurs d'une pensée écologique. Ils montrent que, dès le début du xxe siècle, toute une configuration de penseurs et d'acteurs de l'urbanisme cherchaient à rendre compatibles science de l'action et connaissance du milieu, analyse scientifique et prospective. Cette " école française de l'écologie urbaine " renvoyait délibérément à l'environnement, à la connaissance scientifique et à l'élaboration de modèles d'action plaçant le milieu au centre de leurs préoccupations. Les auteurs expliquent pourquoi cette école n'a pas réussi à se perpétuer, la compétition entre disciplines se terminant par l'élimination des idées porteuses de l'approche écologique en urbanisme. Ainsi, bien des difficultés pour rapprocher écologie et urbanisme remontent au début du xxe siècle. C'est au prix de ce détour et de ce diagnostic que s'ouvre la voie d'une démarche prospective dans ce domaine si important pour l'avenir.
City planning --- Urban geography --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanisme --- Géographie urbaine --- Ecologie urbaine --- History --- Study and teaching --- Historiography --- Histoire --- Etude et enseignement --- Historiographie --- Jaussely, Léon --- Agache, Donat-Alfred, --- City Planning --- Histoire de l'urbanisme --- Ecologie appliquée --- Sociologie urbaine --- Politique urbaine --- Economie urbaine --- Géographie urbaine --- Jaussely, Léon --- Agache, D. Alf. --- Écologie urbaine --- Jaussely, Léon, --- Poëte, Marcel,
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The question of what kind of city we are trying to have is an urgent one as the world continues its dramatic urbanisation. Urban Visions presumes that an understanding of our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what the city could be. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions offers a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city's necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be. The book is illustrated in full colour.
Cities and towns. --- Cities and towns in art. --- City and town life. --- City planning. --- Urban ecology. --- Cities and towns in art --- City and town life --- City planning --- Visual Arts - General --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Social aspects --- Villages in art
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