Wetlands/Rivers/Streams – Page 3 – The Nature of Cities

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Myanmar (Burmese)

Scottish Gaelic

2016 Jul

Gazing at the Gowanus

Keerthi Potluri

Gentrification, History, Housing, Infrastructure, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, Restoration, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2016 Jun

Towards the Water-Sensitive City

Gary Grant

Architecture, Design, Ecosystem services, Green Infrastructure, Resilience, Sustainability, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2016 Feb

Is the Deluge of Urban Areas in India a Natural Phenomenon or Irresponsible Planning?

Haripriya Gundimeda

Asia, Climate change, Disasters/Red zone, Ecosystem services, Health, Justice, Planning, Resilience, Sustainability, Tools, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2016 Feb

A River Cresting in New Orleans: A Complex Choreography of Water, Technology and Bureaucracy that Only Sometimes Serves People and Nature

Josh Lewis

Climate change, Coasts, Communities, Disasters/Red zone, Justice, Planning, Resilience, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Dec

Branch Waters Urbanism: A Concept of Landscape That Organizes the Chaos of “Jungle Cities”

Kevin Sloan

Architecture, Design, Development, Ecocities, Landscape, Livability, North America, Planning, Suburbs, Value, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Oct

Granny Flats and a Sponge House: Rethinking Necessities for the Future of Communities Along the Los Angeles River

Allison Palenske

Architecture, Communities, Design, Justice, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Aug

Glasgow Made the Clyde and the Clyde Made Glasgow

Allison Palenske

Art, Awareness, Biophilia, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams, What is urban nature?
2015 Jul

Ecologically Smart Cities: Keeping Urban Ecosystems Centre Stage in India’s Smart Cities Programme

Harini Nagendra

Asia, Development, Ecosystem services, Justice, Resilience, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Trees, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Jun

How Can Local Design Impact Large Infrastructure Plans and Projects?

Anna Dietzsch

Architecture, Communities, Design, Livability, Restoration, South America, Sustainability, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Mar

Daylighting and restoring urban streams, ponds and wetlands can provide huge ecological and social benefits. Are such restorations “worth it”? What are the pitfalls? How can we demonstrate these benefits and elevate them in the public discourse so that urban wetlands become urban planning priorities?

Adrian Benepe
,
Keith Bowers
,
Meredith Dobbie
,
Susannah Drake
,
Herbert Dreiseitl
,
Marit Larson
,
Chan-Won Lee
,
Kaitlin Lovell
and
Alberto Tacón

Corridors, Design, Ecosystem services, Planning, Restoration, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2015 Feb

Unintended Consequences Can Be Opportunities for Conservation

David Goode

Biodiversity, Conservation, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams, Wildlife People Interactions
2015 Jan

Urban water fronts have typically been sites of heavy development and often are sites of pollution or exclusive access. But they have enormous potential benefits. How can we unlock these benefits for everyone? Are there ecological vs. social vs. economic tradeoffs?

Mitchell Chester
,
PK Das
,
Ana Faggi
,
Andrew Grant
,
John Hartig
,
Roland Lewis
,
Joe Lobko
,
Robert Morris-Nunn
,
Rob Pirani
,
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
,
Andréa Albuquerque G. Redondo
,
Bradley Rink
,
Hita Unnikrishnan
,
Jay Valgora
and
Mike Wells

Architecture, Climate change, Coasts, Conservation, Design, Economics, Planning, Value, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2014 Sep

A Natural Offset for the Rio 2016 Olympic Park

Pierre-André Martin

Biodiversity, Design, Development, South America, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2014 Feb

Hammarby Sjöstad — A New Generation of Sustainable Urban Eco-Districts

Maria E Ignatieva
and
Per Berg

Architecture, Design, Development, Ecocities, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2014 Jan

Can Devastated Landscapes Inspire Planning and Adaptation?

Paula Villagra

Design, Disasters/Red zone, Landscape, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams
2013 Oct

Up the Creek, With a Paddle: Urban Stream Restoration and Daylighting

Adrian Benepe

Parks, Popular, Water, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams