People & Communities – Page 10 – The Nature of Cities

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2017 Sep

Ecosystems for everyone: Who should have access to the myriad benefits of ecosystem services and urban nature? Everyone. Does everyone? No. How will we achieve this moral imperative?

Isabelle Michele Sophie Anguelovski
,
Georgina Avlonitis
,
Julie Bargmann
,
Nathalie Blanc
,
PK Das
,
Marthe Derkzen
,
Maggie Scott Greenfield
,
Fadi Hamdan
,
Nadja Kabisch
,
Jim Labbe
,
Francois Mancebo
,
Harini Nagendra
,
Flaminia Paddeu
,
Steward Pickett
,
Andrew Rudd
,
Suraya Scheba
,
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
,
Hita Unnikrishnan
,
Diana Wiesner
and
Pengfei XIE

Africa, Asia, Awareness, Communities, Design, Europe, Justice, North America, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Policy, South America, Value
2017 Sep

Where Can I Dream? Eight Stories of Life in Bogotá

Diana Wiesner

Biophilia, Communities, Culture, Ecosystem services, Experiencing Nature, Justice, Livability, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Value, Wildlife People Interactions
2017 Sep

Urban Farming for Everyone / La Agricultura Urbana para Todos

Francois Mancebo

Agriculture, Communities, Gardens, Planning, Sustainability
2017 Sep

Re-culturing an Urban Collective Ethos of Sustainability

Harini Nagendra

Asia, Awareness, Culture, Economics, Justice, Pollution, Value
2017 Aug

What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas and Grandpas of South Korea Know

Patrick M. Lydon

Asia, Communities, Culture, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Patrick M. Lydon, Stewardship, What is urban nature?
2017 Aug

Turning Rio Upside Down! The Baixo Rio Neighborhood Project

Cecilia Herzog

Biophilia, Communities, Culture, Design, Development, Governance, Green Infrastructure, Justice, Livability, Planning, Policy, Pollution, South America, Water, What is urban nature?
2017 Aug

Imagine an “ecological certification” for urban design. What are such a certification’s key elements?

Ankia Bormans
,
Katie Coyne
,
Sarah Dooling
,
Nigel Dunnett
,
Ana Faggi
,
Sarah Hinners
,
Mark Hostetler
,
Jason King
,
Marit Larson
,
Nina-Marie Lister
,
Travis Longcore
,
Colin Meurk
,
Diane Pataki
,
Mohan Rao
and
Aditya Sood

Biodiversity, Design, Development, Justice, Landscape, Planning, Policy, Resilience, Sustainability, Tools, Value
2017 Aug

For the Sake of the Common Good? “Gentrifying Conservationism” and “Green Evictions”

Marcelo Lopes de Souza

Awareness, Communities, Development, Economics, Gentrification, Justice, South America
2017 Aug

Black Cockatoo Rising: The Struggle to Save the Bushland in the City

Tim Beatley

Biodiversity, Communities, Conservation, Culture, Development, Ecosystem services, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Governance, Justice, Networks, Participation/Democracy, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2017 Aug

Shutting Down Poletti—An Urban Environmental Victory

Rebecca Bratspies

Communities, Justice, North America, Pollution
2017 Jul

Urban-Rural Inequalities in Carbon Emissions

Jose Puppim
and
Mahendra Sethi

Africa, Climate change, Communities, Development, Economics, Justice, Policy, Sustainability
2017 Jul

Look More Closely, Think More Deeply: Experiences from the 2017 US Forest Service International Urban Forestry Seminar

Adrina Bardekjian

Art, Awareness, Children, Communities, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Food, Gardens, Governance, Justice, Policy, Resilience, Sustainability, What is urban nature?
2017 Jul

“Immigrants Don’t Like Trees” and Other Myths of Urban Nature Management in Multicultural Cities

Camilo Ordóñez

Biophilia, Communities, Culture, Experiencing Nature, Health, Justice, Livability, Planning, Value, What is urban nature?
2017 Jun

Are cities ecosystems—analogous to natural ones—of nature, infrastructure and people? Does thinking about cities in this way help us think about urban design?

Marina Alberti
,
Erik Andersson
,
Sarah Dooling
,
Paul Downton
,
Thomas Elmqvist
,
Nancy Grimm
,
Dagmar Haase
,
Dominique Hes
,
Kristina Hill
,
Madhusudan Katti
,
Francois Mancebo
,
Clifford Ochs
,
Steward Pickett
,
Stephanie Pincetl
,
Rob Pirani
,
Richard Register
,
Eric Sanderson
,
Alexis Schaffler
,
Vivek Shandas
,
David Simon
,
Jane Toner
,
Yolanda van Heezik
,
Ken Yeang
and
David Maddox

Biophilia, Climate change, Communities, Design, Development, Ecosystem services, Experiencing Nature, Health, Justice, Livability, Planning, Resilience, Sustainability, Tools, Value, What is urban nature?
2017 Jun

Cities of Difference, Part I: Gender is Important in Understanding Nature in Cities

Laura Shillington

Central America, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Gender, Justice
2017 Jun

Great Cities Grow from Great Spaces and Listening to their Citizens

Darlene Wolnik

Communities, Design, Gardens, Justice, Participation/Democracy, Resilience
2017 Jun

A Visit to the Guarani-Mbya in São Paulo

Anna Dietzsch

Communities, Culture, Indigenous peoples, South America
2017 May

Yes, in My Backyard!

Cecilia Herzog

Architecture, Design, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, South America, Trees, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2017 May

Trees Are More than Just Trees: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Christine Thuring

Ecosystem services, Governance, Justice, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Pollution, Tools, Trees
2017 May

ALWAYS TOGETHER: A Tale of Indigenous Buried Pasts and Pervasive Futures

Steve Brown

Australia & New Zealand, Culture, Experiencing Nature, History, Justice, Tools, What is urban nature?
2017 May

What South Asian Cities Seem to be Missing

Jennifer Baljko

Architecture, Asia, Design, Development, Green Infrastructure, Housing, Livability, Planning, Policy, Resilience
2017 May

To whom does a city’s nature belong? Is it a common pool resource, or a public good? And who decides?

Amita Baviskar
,
Lindsay Campbell
,
James Connolly
,
Sheila Foster
,
Phil Ginsburg
,
Jeff Hou
,
Marianne Krasny
,
Mary Mattingly
,
Oona Morrow
,
Harini Nagendra
,
Raul Pacheco-Vega
,
Michael Sarbanes
,
Philip Silva
and
Diana Wiesner

Communities, Ecosystem services, Gardens, Gentrification, Governance, Green Infrastructure, Health, Housing, Justice, Livability, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Policy, Pollution, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams, What is urban nature?
2017 May

Tracing Contemporary Landscape Architecture to Sound Ecological Foundations

Steward Pickett

Architecture, Communities, Design, Landscape, landscape architecture, Participation/Democracy, Tools
2017 May

Thinking about a Landscape Approach to Revitalize the American Landscape

William Dunbar

Agriculture, Biodiversity, Landscape, North America, Participation/Democracy, Politics, Sustainability, What is urban nature?
2017 Apr

The Nature of Universities and Sustainability

Lorenzo Chelleri
and
Giulia Sonetti

Communities, Design, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Participation/Democracy, Sustainability, Tools, What is urban nature?
2017 Apr

Challenges of Transitioning to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure in the Amazon Delta and Estuary

Andressa Mansur
and
Eduardo Brondizio

Communities, Disasters/Red zone, Health, Housing, Infrastructure, Justice, Livability, Planning, Pollution, South America, Water
2017 Apr

Exploring Questions of Architecture and Identity from “The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria”

Huda Shaka

Architecture, Communities, Design, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Experiencing Nature, Housing, Infrastructure
2017 Apr

Relocating Industry to Address Air Pollution in Beijing

Pengfei XIE

Asia, Business, Carbon, Climate change, Economics, Health, Livability, Pollution, Sustainability
2017 Apr

Response and Recovery After the Deadliest United States Tornado in a Century

Traci Sooter

Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Experiencing Nature, Participation/Democracy, Resilience, Stewardship, What is urban nature?
2017 Mar

How Large Parks Complete Cities

Lynn Wilson

Architecture, Design, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Justice, Parks, Planning, What is urban nature?