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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Dedication |
lForewordRichard T.T. Forman |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction: Developing a Metalogue: Ecology, Society and DesignS.T.A. Pickett and M.L. Cadenasso and Brian P. McGrath |
Section I Ecology, Design, and Social Contexts: Disciplinary Voices and History |
Chapter 1 Ecology of the City as a Bridge to Urban DesignS.T.A. Pickett and M.L. Cadenasso and Brian P. McGrath |
Chapter 2 Three Tides: The Development and State of the Art of Urban Ecological ScienceM.L. Cadenasso and S.T.A. Pickett |
Chapter 3 Social Dynamics and Sustainable Urban DesignChristopher G. Boone |
Chapter 4 Integral Urbanism: A Context for Urban DesignNan Ellin |
Chapter 5 Landscape as Method and Medium for the Ecological Design of CitiesJoan Nassauer |
Section II Shared Conceptual Understanding: Four Themes for Bridging Ecology and Urban Design |
Theme 1 Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecology and Urban Design |
Chapter 6 Ecological Heterogeneity in Urban Ecosystems: Reconceptualized Land Cover Models as a Bridge to Urban DesignM.L. Cadenasso and S.T.A. Pickett and Brian P. McGrath and Victoria Marshall |
Chapter 7 Urban Patch Dynamics and Resilience: Three London Urban Design EcologiesD. Grahame Shane |
Theme 2 Flux of Water in the Urban Realm |
Chapter 8 Eco-engineering for Water: From Soft to Hard & BackKelly Shannon |
Chapter 9 Beyond Restoration and into Design: Hydrologic Alterations in Aridland CitiesElisabeth K. Larson and Stevan Earl and Elizabeth M. Hagen and Rebecca Hale and Hilairy Hartnett and Michelle McCrackin and Melissa McHale and Nancy B. Grimm |
Theme 3 Resilience: Adaptation and Change in Urban Systems |
Chapter 10 Ecological Resilience as a Foundation for Urban Design and SustainabilityJianguo Wu and Tong Wu |
Chapter 11 Slow, Moderate, Fast: Urban Adaptation and ChangeBrian P. McGrath |
Theme 4 Social Actors and Agents of Urban Organization |
Chapter 12 Anchoring a Terrain: Landscapes beyond UrbanismDilip da Cunha |
Chapter 13 Storyline and Design: How Civic Stewardship Shapes Urban Design in New York CityErika S. Svendsen |
Chapter 14 Eco-cities without Ecology: Constructing Ideologies, Valuing NatureJulie Sze and Gerardo Gambirazzio |
Section III Bridging Ecology and Urban Design Practice |
Chapter 15 Sponge CityIgnacio F. Bunster-Ossa |
Chapter 16 Civic Space in Regional Frameworks: Resilient Approaches to Urban DesignJill Desimini |
Chapter 17 Aesthetic ResilienceVictoria Marshall and Christina Tague |
Chapter 18 Anchoring PhiladelphiaAnuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha |
Chapter 19 Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park Treatment Wetland: Integrated Strategies in Natural Treatment System DesignKerry Rubin and Rowan Roderick-Jones |
Chapter 20 Just Ground: A Social Infrastructure for Urban Landscape RegenerationJulie Bargmann |
Chapter 21 Ecological and Social Linkages in Urban Design Projects: A SynthesisJ. Morgan Grove |
Section IV Urban Design in Expanded Disciplinary and Geographical Contexts |
Chapter 22 The Design Process as a Framework for Collaboration between Ecologists and DesignersAlexander J. Felson |
Chapter 23 Remixing Messages: A Call for Collaboration between Artists and ScientistsMary Miss |
Chapter 24 Landscape Urbanism: A North American PerspectiveAlissa North and Charles Waldheim |
Chapter 25 Urbanism and Ecological RationalityPaola Vigan |
Chapter 26 Bangkok: The Ecology and Design of an Aqua-CityDanai Thaitakoo and Brian McGrath and Suebsiri Srithanyarat and Ying Palopakon |
Chapter 27 Disturbanism in the South Pacific: Disturbance Ecology as a Basis for Urban Resilience in Small Island StatesRod Barnett and Jacqueline Margetts |
Section V Moving Forward |
Chapter 28 The Ecology of the Metacity: Shaping the Dynamic, Patchy, Networked, and Adaptive Cities of the FutureS.T.A. Pickett and Brian P. McGrath and M.L. Cadenasso |
Index |