| Description |
272 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Revive -- Practice -- Town Branch Commons, Lexington, Kentucky -- Strategies -- Water Harvesting Sidewalk; Glen Oaks Branch Library, Queens, New York -- Green Roof; Milstein Hall, Ithaca, New York -- Absorptive Street; Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Streetscape, Buffalo, New York -- Water Plaza; First Avenue Plaza, New York, New York -- Working Landscape; Be'er Sheva Quarry, Negev Region, Israel -- Connective Ground; Water Works, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Urban Manager; Interview with Mayor Jim Gray -- Watershed Steward; Interview with Hans Hesselein -- Making Rocks Public, Jane Hutton -- Cohabit -- Practice -- Oyster-tecture, New York Harbor, New York -- Strategies -- Urban Flyway; Bird-Safe Building Guidelines -- Artificial Habitat; Osprey Nest Structures, Brooklyn, New York -- Shifting Baselines; Field Guide to the Flowers That Are Still Here -- Forestation; Blue Wall Center, Cleveland, South Carolina -- |
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Contents note continued: Adaptive Management; Cove Co-Habitat, Sag Harbor, New York -- Citizen Scientist; Interview with Bart Chezar -- Aquaculture Teacher; Interview with Pete Malinowski -- Urban Ecological Design as Feminist Practice, Thaisa Way -- Engage -- Practice -- Safari 7, New York, New York -- Strategies -- Park Raising; 103rd Street Community Garden, New York, New York -- Intergenerational Space; Blake Hobbs Park, New York, New York -- Free Play Zone; PAVE Academy, Brooklyn, New York -- Urban Hydrology; Town Branch Water Walk, Lexington, Kentucky -- Research Incubator; Interview with Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, and Kate Orff -- Social Infrastructure Advocate; Interview with Eric Klinenberg -- Infrastructure Inside Out, Emily Eliza Scott -- Scale -- Strategies -- Community Pilot; Fuzzy Rope Weaving Evening, New York, New York -- Novel Ecosystems; Sims Habitat Pilot Pier, Brooklyn, New York -- |
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Contents note continued: Consensus Building; New York Rising Community Planning, Brooklyn and Queens, New York -- The Layered Approach; SIRR Coastal Protection Plan, New York, New York -- In Situ Study; Great Kills Breakwater Feasibility Study, Staten Island, New York -- Ecological Infrastructure; The Shallows: Regional Strategy, New York and New Jersey -- Bay Nourishment; The Shallows: Bay Nourishment, Brooklyn and Queens, New York -- Hydrodynamic Modeler; Interview with Philip Orton -- Urban Diver; Interview with Ido Sella -- Public Sediment, Brian Davis -- Practice -- Living Breakwaters, Staten Island, New York |
| Summary |
Kate Orff has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create an urban ecology. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Urban landscape architecture -- United States
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Urban landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States
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Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Sustainable development -- United States
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Human ecology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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| Author |
SCAPE
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SCAPE Landscape Architecture, author
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| LC no. |
2015043350 |
| ISBN |
9781580934367 |
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1580934366 |
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