Overview
- Communicates sound, up-to-date ecological principles to the urban design community to help improve the ecological function of designed and built landscapes
- Identifies novel environmental research directions needed to support basic urban ecology as well as sustainable and resilient urban design
- Articulates new criteria for assessing good ecological urban design while engaging the design imagination
- Contributions by leading voices in the design and ecological communities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 3)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ecology, Design, and Social Contexts: Disciplinary Voices and History
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Shared Conceptual Understanding: Four Themes for Bridging Ecology and Urban Design
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Shared Conceptual Understanding: Four Themes for Bridging Ecology and Urban Design
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Bridging Ecology and Urban Design Practice
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About this book
The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority.
The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
Book Subtitle: Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities
Editors: S.T.A. Pickett, M.L. Cadenasso, Brian McGrath
Series Title: Future City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5341-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5340-2Published: 12 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5343-3Published: 12 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5341-9Published: 13 January 2013
Series ISSN: 1876-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 499
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Landscape Architecture, Ecosystems