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How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundreds of cities worldwide. Numerous illustrations enrich the presentation. Cities are analyzed, not as ecologically bad or good, but as places with concentrated rather than dispersed people. Urban ecology principles, traditionally adapted from natural-area ecology, now increasingly emerge from the distinctive features of cities. Spatial patterns and flows, linking organisms, built structures, and the physical environment highlight a treasure chest of useful principles. This pioneering interdisciplinary book opens up frontiers of insight, as a valuable source and text for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, professionals and others with a thirst for solutions to growing urban problems.

Urban ecology (Biology)

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The urban environment is in a constant state of change, a constant state of becoming . Each period in history has had its specific driving forces for change and corresponding solutions for directing change towards the city imagined and desired at that time. But our current era differs dramatically from earlier epochs as it faces seemingly overwhelming forces like the depletion of fossil fuels and climate change with their unforeseen impacts on the urban. Through the framework of the scenario-thinking and research carried out within the Resources programme at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, this book embarks on a journey of understanding contemporary urban transformations in three cities Shanghai, Los Angeles and Pune each representing not only three major world economies, but three specific urban contexts. Looking beyond the crunch of climate change and depleting fossil fuels, the book brings together a multidisciplinary group of major thinkers and practitioners alongside Resources participants to offer scenarios and visions for a complex yet hopeful picture of an urban future in common

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning --- Environmental aspects

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Architektur ist immer im Kontext zu betrachten - nicht nur die geplante Nutzung, auch Faktoren des (bebauten) Umraums sowie die Infrastrukturen und Netzwerke, in die Gebäude eingebunden sind, bestimmen einen Entwurf. Dabei hängt die aktuell oft gestellte Frage nach dem »Gebäude der Zukunft« auch eng zusammen mit den Anforderungen, die für die »Städte von morgen« definiert werden. Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit ist längst in Stadt- und Raumplanung angekommen und wird derzeit vielfältig diskutiert. Dabei sollte es sich keinesfalls nur auf ökologische Aspekte beschränken, sondern auch räumliche, soziale und wirtschaftliche Strukturen berücksichtigen. In der vorliegenden Publikation werden Problemstellungen und Handlungsfelder erstmals umfassend dargestellt, um einen Überblick zum breit gefächerten Thema der nachhaltigen Stadtplanung zu erlangen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem gemischt genutzten Stadtquartier, bestehend u.a. aus Wohnen, Dienstleistung und Gewerbe. Die Vorstellung unterschiedlicher Strategien - von projektspezifischen bis zu nationalen Ebenen - und Planungswerkzeuge runden diese Grundlagenpublikation ab.

Sustainable development. --- Sustainable urban development. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Urban planning.

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Urban forestry --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Trees in cities

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How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, sewer systems, and industrial sites. The book presents models, patterns, and examples from hundreds of cities worldwide. Numerous illustrations enrich the presentation. Cities are analyzed, not as ecologically bad or good, but as places with concentrated rather than dispersed people. Urban ecology principles, traditionally adapted from natural-area ecology, now increasingly emerge from the distinctive features of cities. Spatial patterns and flows, linking organisms, built structures, and the physical environment highlight a treasure chest of useful principles. This pioneering interdisciplinary book opens up frontiers of insight, as a valuable source and text for undergraduates, graduates, researchers, professionals and others with a thirst for solutions to growing urban problems. -- Provided by publisher.

Urban ecology (Biology) --- City ecology (Biology) --- Cities and towns --- Ecology --- Environmental aspects