Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hypercomplex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions.
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Neuroergonomics urban design sociogenesis by Stefano Serafini
Algorithmic Sustainable Design. Theoretical key concepts by Antonio Caperna
A kind introduction to complexity by Alessandro Giuliani
This study examines the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in the rural community of Sistelo in northern Portugal. The researchers used participatory methods like interviews and exercises to understand local perspectives. They found that while material well-being has increased, some ecosystem services have declined as the region's population decreases. Residents recognize provisioning, cultural, and regulating services, though feel provisioning is most important for well-being. However, well-being is disconnecting from local ecosystem services as people can now substitute services. Land abandonment risks reducing services and raises questions about future well-being and ecosystems.
This document introduces the EPPS (Ecosystem Properties, Potentials, and Services) conceptual framework. It discusses how ecosystem properties describe the biophysical structures and processes of ecosystems. Ecosystem potentials are then derived from the properties to represent the potential for ecosystems to provide services. Finally, ecosystem services are defined as the benefits ecosystems provide to humans. The framework aims to better integrate ecosystem services into spatial planning by linking potentials and services. The document then applies the EPPS framework to analyze urban ecosystems, their properties, potentials, and services.
This document provides an overview of a presentation on biophilic cities and integrating nature into urban design. It discusses the theoretical basis for combining biophilic and urban design concepts. Some key points include:
- Biophilia refers to humans' innate attraction to nature and living processes. Biophilic design aims to incorporate natural elements and inspire connections to nature in the built environment.
- Several principles of biophilic design are discussed, including providing access to nature in cities through urban forests and gardens.
- The presentation examines how place attachment and sense of place can be strengthened by connecting culture, history and ecology in urban design.
- Biophilic urban design approaches are applied at different scales from individual
This document discusses the importance of flexibility and adaptability for civilization. It argues that civilizations must accommodate diversity, unpredictability, and environmental changes to survive. Flexibility allows civilizations to adapt to shifting conditions rather than resisting change. Planning methods also need flexibility to handle dynamic natural and social systems. The document provides examples of how northern regions historically adapted flexibly to harsh climates through diverse livelihoods. It advocates for flexible, collaborative, mosaic-style planning to create resilient regions that can respond and adapt to challenges.
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Civic Ecology, Greening in the Red Zone, & Urban Environmental Stewarship Keith G. Tidball
Civic ecology is the study of interactions between community environmental stewardship, education, culture/institutions, and ecosystem services. It examines how stewardship practices emerge in "broken places" due to people's love of life and places. Ten principles of civic ecology are described, including how practices start locally and expand through partnerships while being resilient to chaos/renewal. The document discusses conceptualizing stewardship over space and time, noting it involves social mechanisms behind management practices based on local ecological knowledge. It explores how stewardship evolves through resilience, learning from disturbances. Key mechanisms of civic ecology identified are urgent biophilia, restorative topophilia, memorialization, rituals, and discourses that shape recovery.
Neuroergonomics urban design sociogenesis by Stefano Serafini
Algorithmic Sustainable Design. Theoretical key concepts by Antonio Caperna
A kind introduction to complexity by Alessandro Giuliani
This study examines the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in the rural community of Sistelo in northern Portugal. The researchers used participatory methods like interviews and exercises to understand local perspectives. They found that while material well-being has increased, some ecosystem services have declined as the region's population decreases. Residents recognize provisioning, cultural, and regulating services, though feel provisioning is most important for well-being. However, well-being is disconnecting from local ecosystem services as people can now substitute services. Land abandonment risks reducing services and raises questions about future well-being and ecosystems.
This document introduces the EPPS (Ecosystem Properties, Potentials, and Services) conceptual framework. It discusses how ecosystem properties describe the biophysical structures and processes of ecosystems. Ecosystem potentials are then derived from the properties to represent the potential for ecosystems to provide services. Finally, ecosystem services are defined as the benefits ecosystems provide to humans. The framework aims to better integrate ecosystem services into spatial planning by linking potentials and services. The document then applies the EPPS framework to analyze urban ecosystems, their properties, potentials, and services.
This document provides an overview of a presentation on biophilic cities and integrating nature into urban design. It discusses the theoretical basis for combining biophilic and urban design concepts. Some key points include:
- Biophilia refers to humans' innate attraction to nature and living processes. Biophilic design aims to incorporate natural elements and inspire connections to nature in the built environment.
- Several principles of biophilic design are discussed, including providing access to nature in cities through urban forests and gardens.
- The presentation examines how place attachment and sense of place can be strengthened by connecting culture, history and ecology in urban design.
- Biophilic urban design approaches are applied at different scales from individual
This document discusses the importance of flexibility and adaptability for civilization. It argues that civilizations must accommodate diversity, unpredictability, and environmental changes to survive. Flexibility allows civilizations to adapt to shifting conditions rather than resisting change. Planning methods also need flexibility to handle dynamic natural and social systems. The document provides examples of how northern regions historically adapted flexibly to harsh climates through diverse livelihoods. It advocates for flexible, collaborative, mosaic-style planning to create resilient regions that can respond and adapt to challenges.
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Civic Ecology, Greening in the Red Zone, & Urban Environmental Stewarship Keith G. Tidball
Civic ecology is the study of interactions between community environmental stewardship, education, culture/institutions, and ecosystem services. It examines how stewardship practices emerge in "broken places" due to people's love of life and places. Ten principles of civic ecology are described, including how practices start locally and expand through partnerships while being resilient to chaos/renewal. The document discusses conceptualizing stewardship over space and time, noting it involves social mechanisms behind management practices based on local ecological knowledge. It explores how stewardship evolves through resilience, learning from disturbances. Key mechanisms of civic ecology identified are urgent biophilia, restorative topophilia, memorialization, rituals, and discourses that shape recovery.
Urban and Industrial Habitats: How Important They Are for Ecosystem ServicesEdytaSierka
Woźniak G., Sierka E., Wheeler A. (2018). Urban and Industrial Habitats: How Important They Are for Ecosystem Services. Ecosystem Services and Global Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.75723., 2018
The sustainable management of natural resources can make human survival possible. Sustainable management is based on a deep understanding of the complex mechanisms of the Earth's natural ecosystems and of how those resources can be managed without compromising future benefits and availability. The sustainable management of natural
This PhD project examines the spatial expansion of the oil industry in Ecuador and resulting environmental conflicts. The student will analyze the case study of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador using a framework that views territories as complex systems of material and immaterial relationships between societies and the environment. A literature review covers topics like biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and integrating environmental sustainability into models of local development.
Population ecology deals with how population size and structure change over time due to births, deaths, immigration and emigration. It studies the interactions between organisms and their environment at the population level. Ecology can be divided into biotic and abiotic components, with biotic factors being living things that interact with organisms and abiotic factors being non-living environmental components like temperature, soil and water. Population dynamics are influenced by the rates of births, deaths, immigration and emigration within a population.
Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs) in urban agricult...Marco Garoffolo
Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs)
in urban agriculture: the potential impact on food and nutrition
security, biodiversity and other ecosystem services
in the city of Bologna
Francesco Orsini & Daniela Gasperi & Livia Marchetti &
Chiara Piovene & Stefano Draghetti & Solange Ramazzotti &
Giovanni Bazzocchi & Giorgio Gianquinto
Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Ecologists seek to explain life processes, interactions, adaptations, movement of materials and energy through communities, successional development of ecosystems, and abundance and distribution of organisms. Biodiversity describes genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity and can be indexed in many ways. Habitats are defined by environmental factors that determine the type of community formed. Population ecology studies population dynamics and how populations interact with their environment.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on environmentalism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
The document discusses sustainable development from global to local scales. It advocates adopting a multi-scale approach and considers sustainable development from global, analytical, political, and epistemological perspectives. At the local scale, relationships between energy systems and territories are explored, comparing fossil fuel and renewable energy sources. Renewable resources can generate more localized forms of organization where local actors play important roles.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in agricultural ecology. It defines ecology and its subfields, then discusses the importance of plant ecology for crop production. It also covers environmental factors, ecosystems, components of ecosystems like producers and consumers, and types of plant communities and successions. Finally, it outlines India's agro-climatic zones.
This document discusses how global environmental governance affects behavior at the household level. It argues that households have become a primary site for reproducing global power structures related to environmentalism. Through eco-knowledge and conserveillance, which involve producing scientific knowledge about the environment and monitoring resource usage, individuals internalize rational management of natural resources. This constructs people as subjects relating to the environment. The presentation provides an ethnographic study of a sustainable housing rehab project to examine how global environmental governance is (re)produced and (re)created at the household level.
Relationship of man to his environment is vital on how he will view life and how it will affect his principle concerning the environment that he lives in.
The document analyzes the effects of landscape characteristics on avian biodiversity in two small urban parks in Austin, Texas. Through bird surveys conducted in April 2014, the author found that Shipe Park, which contains a riparian corridor, supported a greater number of species (9 total species) and individuals (94 total) than Bailey Park (6 species, 73 individuals), which lacks a riparian corridor. Both parks contained generalist species that thrive in urban areas, but Shipe Park also contained several specialist species, indicating that the riparian corridor provides additional habitat and resources beneficial for urban biodiversity. The author concludes the study provides insight into how landscape features in urban greenspaces influence the functionality of urban ecosystems.
The document discusses the need for achieving culture-environment parity in development planning for growing cities to maintain ecological balance. It argues that viewing development and environment/culture as mutually exclusive leads to problems. Instead, an organic city design approach is needed that incorporates cultural parameters and recognizes the city's relationship with natural systems. This will help minimize issues like environmental degradation and cultural shock of development by reducing the disparity between progress on development versus culture/environment.
This document provides the agenda for a two-day symposium on the functions and values of biodiversity held at the University of Oxford. Day 1 consists of 4 sessions discussing topics such as linking biodiversity to forest ecosystem functioning, macro-scale perspectives on biodiversity functions, and the value of biodiversity in oceans. Day 1 ends with a quick-fire poster session. Day 2 includes sessions on biodiversity's role in poverty alleviation and capacity for innovation, who captures biodiversity value, and considerations around using economic valuation to conserve biodiversity. The symposium concludes with a panel discussion on combining instrumental and ethical arguments for biodiversity conservation.
Socio-ecological systems: Moving beyond the Human Exemptionalist ParadigmMadhusudan Katti
A talk given by Dr. Andrew Jones on Sep 24, 2010, in the Biology Colloquium at California State University, Fresno. He presents a historical overview of how Sociology came to discover its place within a broader ecological context and began addressing the metabolic rift resulting from human activities on this planet. He also presents the conecptual framework for analysis being developed under the new Urban Long-Term Research Area - Fresno And Clovis Ecosocial Study (ULTRA-FACES) project.
The Perspective and Association of Geography with Environment and Societypaperpublications3
Abstract: The study examines the relationship of the discipline of Geography with conceptual terms of Environment and society. Geography is seen as a spatial science, majorly concerned with spatial analysis, of how and why things differ from place to place and how observable spatial pattern evolved through time on the surface of the earth. The study adopts a survey of literature as its methodology. It is observable that every society has its individual physical and cultural attributes that distinguishing it from other societies; thus giving it unique character, potential and location. And it is found that in society cultural traits are more pronounced in changing the natural phenomena of the environment. The Environment is better understood when broken to its component: atmosphere, hydrosphere lithosphere and biosphere. Environment has all that is needed to sustain the society and all that is required for life sustenance. It provides the setting with which human action occurs, its shapes but not dictate, how people live in the society as well as their resource base. However, how resources are perceived and utilized is culturally conditioned in society. And virtually every human activity leaves its imprint on the environment. Environment and society form the laboratory for geographic operation. And its spheres form the space which is the major concern in geography and the concept of society introduces the important factor of culture which greatly has direct impact on the environment. The socio-cultural content of the society is influenced by the environment where it locates and the society modifies the content of the environment. There are interconnection between the environment and society which purposely produces spatial patterns with their hidden mechanism of spatial process, accessibility and connectively in addition to idea of location and distance. Advance level of interaction has produced globalization which has accelerated greater spatial diffusion of idea and material resources in the world. The major role of geography is to ensure harmonious spatial organization and inter relationship between and among societies on one hand and between society and its environment on the other. Thus, this is being pursued in geography through its traditions: Earth science, cultural-environment, the location (space), the areal analysis and various paradigms and spatial techniques. It is therefore recommended that for speedy development in developing nations particularly at combating the myriad of environmental challenges and appropriate exploitation and utilization of environmental resources, the spatial tool should be adopted as contained in the discipline of Geography.
Urbanecology and environmental planningSamanth kumar
This document outlines the course contents for a master's program in environmental architecture at Anna University. It covers 5 units: (1) introduction to urban ecosystems, ecology, and environmental science concepts; (2) concepts and approaches to ecological planning; (3) human influence on ecosystems; (4) effects of growing population on ecosystems; and (5) global environmental issues and policies. Key topics include urban ecosystem structure, major ecosystem types, energy and nutrient flows, ecological pyramids, predation, and human impacts such as pollution, resource exploitation, and urbanization effects.
This document discusses principles for conducting needs assessments of the environment and health in post-disaster situations. It outlines that assessments should evaluate the type of disaster, damage to the ecosystem and infrastructure, health impacts like disease spread and availability of resources, and prospects for reconstruction. Reconstruction efforts should follow ecological principles, stabilize ecosystems, and implement development strategies that prevent future disasters through religious and environmentally conscious national planning. Needs assessments provide data to guide proper reconstruction leading to better environments and public health.
Ecosystem services - the Climbeco critiqueSarah Cornell
Here are a few thoughts on ecosystem services:
- Ecosystem services does not necessarily have to be about money. The original concept focused more broadly on the benefits humans receive from nature. Monetary valuation is one approach, but not the only way to assess value.
- Defining ecosystem values in monetary terms has both benefits and limitations. It can help raise awareness and influence policymakers, but also risks reducing nature to an economic commodity. Non-monetary approaches are needed to capture aspects like cultural, spiritual or intrinsic values.
- Alternative approaches to valuation include deliberative methods like citizens' juries that incorporate social and ethical considerations. Multi-criteria analysis can also integrate monetary with non-monetary indicators. Indigenous and traditional knowledge
Urban and Industrial Habitats: How Important They Are for Ecosystem ServicesEdytaSierka
Woźniak G., Sierka E., Wheeler A. (2018). Urban and Industrial Habitats: How Important They Are for Ecosystem Services. Ecosystem Services and Global Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.75723., 2018
The sustainable management of natural resources can make human survival possible. Sustainable management is based on a deep understanding of the complex mechanisms of the Earth's natural ecosystems and of how those resources can be managed without compromising future benefits and availability. The sustainable management of natural
This PhD project examines the spatial expansion of the oil industry in Ecuador and resulting environmental conflicts. The student will analyze the case study of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador using a framework that views territories as complex systems of material and immaterial relationships between societies and the environment. A literature review covers topics like biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and integrating environmental sustainability into models of local development.
Population ecology deals with how population size and structure change over time due to births, deaths, immigration and emigration. It studies the interactions between organisms and their environment at the population level. Ecology can be divided into biotic and abiotic components, with biotic factors being living things that interact with organisms and abiotic factors being non-living environmental components like temperature, soil and water. Population dynamics are influenced by the rates of births, deaths, immigration and emigration within a population.
Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs) in urban agricult...Marco Garoffolo
Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs)
in urban agriculture: the potential impact on food and nutrition
security, biodiversity and other ecosystem services
in the city of Bologna
Francesco Orsini & Daniela Gasperi & Livia Marchetti &
Chiara Piovene & Stefano Draghetti & Solange Ramazzotti &
Giovanni Bazzocchi & Giorgio Gianquinto
Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Ecologists seek to explain life processes, interactions, adaptations, movement of materials and energy through communities, successional development of ecosystems, and abundance and distribution of organisms. Biodiversity describes genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity and can be indexed in many ways. Habitats are defined by environmental factors that determine the type of community formed. Population ecology studies population dynamics and how populations interact with their environment.
Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on environmentalism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.
The document discusses sustainable development from global to local scales. It advocates adopting a multi-scale approach and considers sustainable development from global, analytical, political, and epistemological perspectives. At the local scale, relationships between energy systems and territories are explored, comparing fossil fuel and renewable energy sources. Renewable resources can generate more localized forms of organization where local actors play important roles.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in agricultural ecology. It defines ecology and its subfields, then discusses the importance of plant ecology for crop production. It also covers environmental factors, ecosystems, components of ecosystems like producers and consumers, and types of plant communities and successions. Finally, it outlines India's agro-climatic zones.
This document discusses how global environmental governance affects behavior at the household level. It argues that households have become a primary site for reproducing global power structures related to environmentalism. Through eco-knowledge and conserveillance, which involve producing scientific knowledge about the environment and monitoring resource usage, individuals internalize rational management of natural resources. This constructs people as subjects relating to the environment. The presentation provides an ethnographic study of a sustainable housing rehab project to examine how global environmental governance is (re)produced and (re)created at the household level.
Relationship of man to his environment is vital on how he will view life and how it will affect his principle concerning the environment that he lives in.
The document analyzes the effects of landscape characteristics on avian biodiversity in two small urban parks in Austin, Texas. Through bird surveys conducted in April 2014, the author found that Shipe Park, which contains a riparian corridor, supported a greater number of species (9 total species) and individuals (94 total) than Bailey Park (6 species, 73 individuals), which lacks a riparian corridor. Both parks contained generalist species that thrive in urban areas, but Shipe Park also contained several specialist species, indicating that the riparian corridor provides additional habitat and resources beneficial for urban biodiversity. The author concludes the study provides insight into how landscape features in urban greenspaces influence the functionality of urban ecosystems.
The document discusses the need for achieving culture-environment parity in development planning for growing cities to maintain ecological balance. It argues that viewing development and environment/culture as mutually exclusive leads to problems. Instead, an organic city design approach is needed that incorporates cultural parameters and recognizes the city's relationship with natural systems. This will help minimize issues like environmental degradation and cultural shock of development by reducing the disparity between progress on development versus culture/environment.
This document provides the agenda for a two-day symposium on the functions and values of biodiversity held at the University of Oxford. Day 1 consists of 4 sessions discussing topics such as linking biodiversity to forest ecosystem functioning, macro-scale perspectives on biodiversity functions, and the value of biodiversity in oceans. Day 1 ends with a quick-fire poster session. Day 2 includes sessions on biodiversity's role in poverty alleviation and capacity for innovation, who captures biodiversity value, and considerations around using economic valuation to conserve biodiversity. The symposium concludes with a panel discussion on combining instrumental and ethical arguments for biodiversity conservation.
Socio-ecological systems: Moving beyond the Human Exemptionalist ParadigmMadhusudan Katti
A talk given by Dr. Andrew Jones on Sep 24, 2010, in the Biology Colloquium at California State University, Fresno. He presents a historical overview of how Sociology came to discover its place within a broader ecological context and began addressing the metabolic rift resulting from human activities on this planet. He also presents the conecptual framework for analysis being developed under the new Urban Long-Term Research Area - Fresno And Clovis Ecosocial Study (ULTRA-FACES) project.
The Perspective and Association of Geography with Environment and Societypaperpublications3
Abstract: The study examines the relationship of the discipline of Geography with conceptual terms of Environment and society. Geography is seen as a spatial science, majorly concerned with spatial analysis, of how and why things differ from place to place and how observable spatial pattern evolved through time on the surface of the earth. The study adopts a survey of literature as its methodology. It is observable that every society has its individual physical and cultural attributes that distinguishing it from other societies; thus giving it unique character, potential and location. And it is found that in society cultural traits are more pronounced in changing the natural phenomena of the environment. The Environment is better understood when broken to its component: atmosphere, hydrosphere lithosphere and biosphere. Environment has all that is needed to sustain the society and all that is required for life sustenance. It provides the setting with which human action occurs, its shapes but not dictate, how people live in the society as well as their resource base. However, how resources are perceived and utilized is culturally conditioned in society. And virtually every human activity leaves its imprint on the environment. Environment and society form the laboratory for geographic operation. And its spheres form the space which is the major concern in geography and the concept of society introduces the important factor of culture which greatly has direct impact on the environment. The socio-cultural content of the society is influenced by the environment where it locates and the society modifies the content of the environment. There are interconnection between the environment and society which purposely produces spatial patterns with their hidden mechanism of spatial process, accessibility and connectively in addition to idea of location and distance. Advance level of interaction has produced globalization which has accelerated greater spatial diffusion of idea and material resources in the world. The major role of geography is to ensure harmonious spatial organization and inter relationship between and among societies on one hand and between society and its environment on the other. Thus, this is being pursued in geography through its traditions: Earth science, cultural-environment, the location (space), the areal analysis and various paradigms and spatial techniques. It is therefore recommended that for speedy development in developing nations particularly at combating the myriad of environmental challenges and appropriate exploitation and utilization of environmental resources, the spatial tool should be adopted as contained in the discipline of Geography.
Urbanecology and environmental planningSamanth kumar
This document outlines the course contents for a master's program in environmental architecture at Anna University. It covers 5 units: (1) introduction to urban ecosystems, ecology, and environmental science concepts; (2) concepts and approaches to ecological planning; (3) human influence on ecosystems; (4) effects of growing population on ecosystems; and (5) global environmental issues and policies. Key topics include urban ecosystem structure, major ecosystem types, energy and nutrient flows, ecological pyramids, predation, and human impacts such as pollution, resource exploitation, and urbanization effects.
This document discusses principles for conducting needs assessments of the environment and health in post-disaster situations. It outlines that assessments should evaluate the type of disaster, damage to the ecosystem and infrastructure, health impacts like disease spread and availability of resources, and prospects for reconstruction. Reconstruction efforts should follow ecological principles, stabilize ecosystems, and implement development strategies that prevent future disasters through religious and environmentally conscious national planning. Needs assessments provide data to guide proper reconstruction leading to better environments and public health.
Ecosystem services - the Climbeco critiqueSarah Cornell
Here are a few thoughts on ecosystem services:
- Ecosystem services does not necessarily have to be about money. The original concept focused more broadly on the benefits humans receive from nature. Monetary valuation is one approach, but not the only way to assess value.
- Defining ecosystem values in monetary terms has both benefits and limitations. It can help raise awareness and influence policymakers, but also risks reducing nature to an economic commodity. Non-monetary approaches are needed to capture aspects like cultural, spiritual or intrinsic values.
- Alternative approaches to valuation include deliberative methods like citizens' juries that incorporate social and ethical considerations. Multi-criteria analysis can also integrate monetary with non-monetary indicators. Indigenous and traditional knowledge
The document discusses a lack of proper functional connections between various aspects of human existence including metabolism and the nervous system, masculinity and femininity, the individual and the universe, and matter and consciousness. It argues that establishing these functional connections is needed to address problems facing humanity. The document was written by Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar and focuses on 11 specific areas where improved functional connections are required.
Apartamentos de 2 e 3D, com suíte e churrasqueira no melhor bairro da zona sul de Porto Alegre/RS. Localizado na Rua Dr Pereira Neto, 154, bairro Tristeza.
Renatinhu gosta de lavar seu jato e tirar fotos dele. Seu jato é muito importante para ele e ele gosta de mantê-lo limpo e bonito para mostrar aos outros.
The document discusses a company's business strategy council (BSC) meeting in August 2010. It outlines the company's key performance indicators and goals for various divisions, including increasing customer retention rates, improving web platforms, and expanding outsourcing partnerships. Progress and initiatives are reviewed across departments on a quarterly basis using a PDCA cycle approach.
The urban body is composed of several interconnected layers of dynamic structure, all influencing each other in a non-linear manner. This interaction results in emergent properties, which are not predictable except through a dynamical analysis of the connected whole. This approach therefore links Biourbanism to the Life Sciences
Isobenefit Lines by Luca D'Acci
Algorithmic Sustainable Design. Morphogenesis, by Antonio Caperna
The Structure of Pattern Language, by Antonio Caperna
Generative processes of Mediterranean Cities and Towns, by Besim S. Hakim
Algorithmic Sustainable Design: “The Nature of Order”, by Antonio Caperna
Sustainable Urban Development: Bioregionalistic Vision for Small TownsIEREK Press
Cities and towns are the social constructs in regional settings. They physically manifest and exist as power centres through various layers of culture, economy, politics, and religion. There was a symbiotic relationship between the ‘setting’ and the ‘construct’ in the past. With time and advent of technology, haphazard developments led to degradation of ecological systems and have become a confronted affair. Global warming, its adverse effects and the constant references to the words ‘sustainability’ and ‘resilience’ pose questions on the existing planning models. Small towns experiencing a tremendous pressure of urbanisation and rich in natural resources, coherence and identity are fast changing. An indispensable change in the planning models is necessary to mitigate this existential crisis and condition the emerging urbanism in small towns sustainably. This paper unearths the role and possibilities of bioregional planning as a sustainable urban development paradigm and suggests few indicative parameters forenvisioning bioregionalism in small towns.
This document summarizes a research article about biomimicry in architecture. The article explores how biomimicry, which involves mimicking designs from nature, can influence architecture, the environment, the economy, and society. It discusses theories of biomimicry, sustainability, and nature-inspired design. A survey was conducted with architecture and engineering professionals to evaluate how biomimicry design may impact the surrounding community and inhabitants. The research aims to examine how biomimicry can create architecture with maximum comfort and minimum environmental impact while being economically efficient.
•Biourbanism introduces new conceptual and planning models for a new kind of city, which values social and economical regeneration of the built environment through developing and healthy communities.
•Biourbanism combines technical aspects, such as zero-emission, energy efficiency, information technology, etc. and the promotion of social sustainability and human well being.
“Wilson and other Biophilia theorists assert that human beings not only derive specific aesthetic benefits from
interacting with nature, but that the human species has an instinctive, genetically determined need to deeply affiliate with natural setting and life-forms.”
and life-forms.”
The document discusses the concept of social ecology, which is defined as the study of the interaction between people and their environment. It provides various definitions and perspectives on social ecology from different institutions and scholars. Specifically, it examines the origins and development of social ecology at the University of Chicago in the 1920s. It also analyzes the intellectual foundations and different traditions that have influenced social ecology, such as evolutionary biology, urban sociology, and public health. The document explores how social ecologists view the environmental crisis as stemming from social hierarchies and domination within society.
Urban ecology: will we act before its too late?Gururaja KV
This talk is given at CiSTUP foundation day, on 4 Jan 2010, IISc, Bangalore. Deals with Urban ecology in general and what I am interested in, in particular. Simple, straight lecture.
This document provides an introduction to biourbanism. It begins by discussing the mechanistic worldview that developed from Cartesian and Newtonian physics, which viewed the world as a machine composed of basic parts. It then outlines how recent developments in fields like complexity theory, evolution, and neuroscience provide an alternative view of the world as interconnected dynamic systems. Biourbanism aims to apply these new scientific insights to architecture and urban planning to create human-centered built environments based on principles of networks, patterns, and scale found in nature. The document argues this approach can help address issues like pollution, inequality and unsustainability created by the current urban planning paradigm.
The Navajo creation myth describes the emergence of the Navajo people from the lower worlds into the fourth world, which is the present world. It explains how the Navajo came to be and their relationship with nature and the land. The myth emphasizes that humans have a role and responsibility regarding nature rather than a conqueror role, as separating humans from nature encourages environmentally irresponsible behavior. As technology and agriculture have advanced, they have resulted in an imbalance and overuse of land, making humans an invasive species due to their manipulation of the landscape and dependency on Earth's resources.
The document discusses biomimicry in architecture. It defines biomimicry as taking inspiration from nature's models, systems, and processes to solve design problems sustainably. The document outlines two approaches to biomimicry in design: the problem-based direct approach where designers look to nature for solutions to identified problems, and the solution-based indirect approach where characteristics of organisms or ecosystems are translated to designs. It also notes limitations in fully emulating nature, as ecosystems develop over long periods while architectural designs must be implemented upfront.
Aspects of Urban resilience.
Presented as part of the Nature Addicts workshop, in the context of Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe 2021 in Eleusis May 23, 2017
Ecology is the study of organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems. It examines how living things interact with each other and their non-living environments. The main levels of ecological study are organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Ecologists seek to understand life processes, interactions between organisms, energy and material flows, ecosystem development, and biodiversity distribution.
This document provides a literature review and analysis of sustainable urbanism from an ecopsychology perspective. It examines how ecopsychology, which views humans and nature as ecologically interconnected, can help address some of the limitations of sustainable urbanism discourse. The author applies Andy Fisher's framework of the four tasks of ecopsychology - psychological, philosophical, practical, and critical - to analyze sustainable urbanism. Two themes within sustainable urbanism, walkable urbanism and finding a natural sense of place, are discussed as opportunities for an ecopsychological approach. A case study of a sustainable development planning process is also analyzed through an ecopsychological lens. The document concludes by recommending approaches like wilderness-based urban
Regenerative Mobility: Disruption and Urban EvolutionIEREK Press
Mobility plays an important role in the cities by enabling people to carry out the most varied activities across the territory, as well as to ensure the city fully function. In addition, analogies to the human organism can be made by this urban dynamic, looking for solutions to specific issues. Moreover, this paper has been based by the premise that phenomena and urban elements could be conceptualized, explained and transformed from contemporary and innovative approaches applied in the medical field. For this reason, this paper aims to develop and present a new concept associated with urban mobility, based on the principles of regenerative medicine: the Regenerative Mobility, a concept with disruptive and evolutionary purposes. Furthermore, the structure of this paper is summarized by the introduction which contextualizes the theme, presents and characterizes the techniques used in the research. Additionally, the following chapters explore essential aspects of the city, explaining why it needs a mobility change and new concepts. Therefore, the concept of Regenerative Mobility is presented as a potential of mobility and cities improvement, followed by pragmatic cases, capable of illustrating some of its principles.
Regenerative Mobility: Disruption and Urban EvolutionIEREK Press
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(Froyen, 2001, from UDEP.be report)
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Chapter 2
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Biourbanism Manifesto. By Antonio Caperna
1. International Society of Biourbanism
info@biourbanism.org
www.biourbanism.org
Biourbanism
Antonio Caperna, Alessia Cerqua, Alessandro Giuliani, Nikos A. Salingaros, Stefano Serafini
Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hypercomplex system,
according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions.
The urban body is composed of several interconnected layers of dynamic structure, all
influencing each other in a non-linear manner. This interaction results in emergent
properties, which are not predictable except through a dynamical analysis of the connected
whole. This approach therefore links Biourbanism to the Life Sciences, and to Integrated
Systems Sciences like Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Operations Research, and
Ecology in an essential manner. The similarity of approaches lies not only in the common
methodology, but also in the content of the results (hence the prefix “Bio”), because the city
represents the living environment of the human species. Biourbanism recognizes “optimal
forms” defined at different scales (from the purely physiological up to the ecological levels)
which, through morphogenetic processes, guarantee an optimum of systemic efficiency and
for the quality of life of the inhabitants. A design that does not follow these laws produces
anti-natural, hostile environments, which do not fit into an individual’s evolution, and thus
fail to enhance life in any way.
Biourbanism acts in the real world by applying a participative and helping methodology. It
verifies results inter-subjectively (as people express their physical and emotional wellbeing
through feedback) as well as objectively (via experimental measures of physiological,
social, and economic reactions).
The aim of Biourbanism is to make a scientific contribution towards: (i) the development
and implementation of the premises of Deep Ecology (Bateson) on social-environmental
grounds; (ii) the identification and actualization of environmental enhancement according to
the natural needs of human beings and the ecosystem in which they live; (iii) managing the
transition of the fossil fuel economy towards a new organizational model of civilization; and
(iv) deepening the organic interaction between cultural and physical factors in urban reality
(as, for example, the geometry of social action, fluxes and networks study, etc.).
2. International Society of Biourbanism
info@biourbanism.org
www.biourbanism.org
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