Place & Design – Page 10 – The Nature of Cities

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Myanmar (Burmese)

Scottish Gaelic

2017 Aug

The Tree for All Journey: Rethinking Urban Growth At the Landscape Scale

Bruce Roll

Birds, Design, North America, Parks, partnerships, Planning, Policy, Wildlife People Interactions
2017 Aug

Green as a Color, a Philosophy, and a Marketing Strategy

Stephanie Pincetl

Middle East, Sustainability, Water
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

Wall Watching in Iran

Jennifer Baljko

Art, Graffiti, Middle East
2017 Jul

Swiss Green Roof Standards: Experiences and Exchanges from Three Years of Practice

Nathalie Baumann

Architecture, Biodiversity, Design, Development, Green Infrastructure, Planning, Policy, Tools, Value
2017 Jul

Plants Do Not Care How Rich You Are: Anthropogenic Florstic Changes in Tehran’s Public and Private Green Areas

Maryam Akbarian

Architecture, Climate change, Culture, Design, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Landscape, landscape architecture, Middle East, Resilience, Water
2017 Jul

Designing Urban Nature: The Domain of Ecologically Informed Planners or Landscape Architects?

Will Allen

Biophilia, Design, Development, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Green Infrastructure, Landscape, Planning, Resilience, Sustainability, urban design, What is urban nature?
2017 Jul

Crossing the Design-Science Divide

Jason King

Architecture, Biodiversity, Design, Development, Landscape, Tools, Wildlife People Interactions
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

The Effect of Iteration on Urban Form, Part II: Iteration in an Ecosystem

Mathieu Hélie

Architecture, Biomimicry, Design, Housing, Landscape, Planning
2017 Jun

The Effect of Iteration on Urban Form, Part I: Fractals and the Creation of Complexity

Mathieu Hélie

Architecture, Design, Housing, Landscape, Planning
2017 Jun

Great Cities Grow from Great Spaces and Listening to their Citizens

Darlene Wolnik

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

Singapore through the Eyes of a Young Planner in Manila

Ragene Palma

Asia, Design, Education, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Gardens, Planning, Singapore, Value
2017 May

Yes, in My Backyard!

Cecilia Herzog

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

Biophilia’s Place in an Integrated Approach to Urban Planning

Mike Wells

Biophilia, Design, Experiencing Nature, Livability, Planning, Tools, Wildlife People Interactions
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

Urban Landscape: Reading Nature from Big to Small Scales

Gloria Aponte

Architecture, Design, Experiencing Nature, Landscape, Livability, Tools, What is urban nature?
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

Eight Machinic Scenes in Hamasen, Taiwan

Brian McGrath
and
Cheng-Luen Hsueh

Architecture, Art, Asia, Awareness, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Networks, 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

Re-Wilding: Cities by Nature

Kevin Sloan

Architecture, Culture, Design, Ecosystem services, Resilience, Suburbs, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People Interactions
2017 Apr

Retrofitting the City: Interweaving Urban Nature for Transformative Adaptation

David Ralston

Climate change, Culture, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Livability, North America, Planning, Resilience, Sustainability
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

The Suburban City, Usefully Seen as a Mega-Landscape

Kevin Sloan

Design, Livability, North America, Planning, Suburbs, 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 Apr

Extinction Debt: Is Urban Nature Conservation in Peril?

Marié du Toit
and
Sarel Cilliers

Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystem services, Green Infrastructure, Invasive Species, Participation/Democracy, Restoration, Stewardship, Tools, What is urban nature?
2017 Mar

The Models are not Prescriptions—Applying Green Roof Technology in New Places

Andrew Clements

Business, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Europe, Green Infrastructure, Green Roofs, Middle East, Tools, What is urban nature?