This document discusses several topics related to urban ecology, including urban wildlife, permaculture, city farming, human ecology, genetically modified foods, ecological urbanism, urban design and planning principles, new urbanism, and urban water systems. It explores how urbanization impacts the environment and hydrologic cycle, and introduces concepts like urban permaculture and city farming that aim to counteract environmental degradation in cities. Throughout, it sheds light on effects of urbanization and strategies people are employing to address them.
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.
The document discusses the search for sustainable cities over time. It explores ideas from early thinkers like Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities, Patrick Geddes' concept of viewing the city as a whole, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City. More modern approaches included Ian McHarg's design with nature, Chris Canfield's symbiotic communities, and Michael Corbett's ecological village homes. The document also examines permaculture cities, transit-oriented new urbanism, compact and regenerative cities, and cities with circular metabolisms and green infrastructure. It concludes that sustainable cities integrate nature and community, do not exceed environmental limits, and are holistic, diverse, and regenerative systems.
Urban ecology is the study of the relationship between living and non-living components of human-settled environments. It examines how human influences impact plant and animal populations in cities, and how urban ecosystems provide functions that support human populations. Urban ecology also considers the interactions between biophysical forces and socio-economic aspects of cities. It aims to quantify energy, material, and nutrient flows needed to sustain urban systems. Key analytical tools used in urban ecology include systems flow diagramming, environmental gradient analysis, correlation analysis, footprint analysis, and emergy analysis. These tools help evaluate cities' socio-ecological metabolism and trade-offs between alternative development choices.
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.
1) Barcelona is located on Spain's northern Mediterranean coast, bounded naturally by rivers, the sea, and mountains. Over centuries it grew from a Roman settlement into a medieval walled city and then expanded on a grid plan in the 19th century.
2) In the 1980s, Barcelona faced urban decay but used the 1992 Olympics as catalyst for urban renewal, rebuilding neglected areas and connecting the city to its waterfront with new beaches, parks, and infrastructure.
3) Planner Oriol Bohigas led the transformation, using the Olympics to fund over 200 new public projects that inserted amenities into formerly derelict, high-crime neighborhoods.
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.
The document discusses the search for sustainable cities over time. It explores ideas from early thinkers like Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities, Patrick Geddes' concept of viewing the city as a whole, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City. More modern approaches included Ian McHarg's design with nature, Chris Canfield's symbiotic communities, and Michael Corbett's ecological village homes. The document also examines permaculture cities, transit-oriented new urbanism, compact and regenerative cities, and cities with circular metabolisms and green infrastructure. It concludes that sustainable cities integrate nature and community, do not exceed environmental limits, and are holistic, diverse, and regenerative systems.
Urban ecology is the study of the relationship between living and non-living components of human-settled environments. It examines how human influences impact plant and animal populations in cities, and how urban ecosystems provide functions that support human populations. Urban ecology also considers the interactions between biophysical forces and socio-economic aspects of cities. It aims to quantify energy, material, and nutrient flows needed to sustain urban systems. Key analytical tools used in urban ecology include systems flow diagramming, environmental gradient analysis, correlation analysis, footprint analysis, and emergy analysis. These tools help evaluate cities' socio-ecological metabolism and trade-offs between alternative development choices.
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.
1) Barcelona is located on Spain's northern Mediterranean coast, bounded naturally by rivers, the sea, and mountains. Over centuries it grew from a Roman settlement into a medieval walled city and then expanded on a grid plan in the 19th century.
2) In the 1980s, Barcelona faced urban decay but used the 1992 Olympics as catalyst for urban renewal, rebuilding neglected areas and connecting the city to its waterfront with new beaches, parks, and infrastructure.
3) Planner Oriol Bohigas led the transformation, using the Olympics to fund over 200 new public projects that inserted amenities into formerly derelict, high-crime neighborhoods.
This document provides an overview of urban planning, sustainable development, sustainable architecture, and sustainable cities. It discusses the history and theories of urban planning and how planners guide development. Technical aspects of planning like land use and infrastructure are examined. The roles of sustainable development, sustainable architecture, and creating sustainable cities to meet needs without compromising the future are also summarized. Urban planning aims to optimize communities while balancing environmental, economic, and social considerations.
- The document discusses the importance of preserving open spaces and vegetation in urban planning to balance environmental, social and economic needs. It notes trees and vegetation provide aesthetic, climatic and engineering benefits.
- It outlines various values and benefits of trees related to architecture, climate, site development and engineering like moderating temperatures, intercepting rainfall, stabilizing soils and reducing pollution. Trees also have economic and legal value by enhancing property values.
- Jurisdictions have enacted preservation ordinances to balance development with resource protection. Successful preservation must integrate into early planning stages rather than be retrofitted later. Proper protection of trees during construction is also important to prevent root damage.
This document discusses the history and development of cities from early villages to modern urban centers. It notes that while cities have existed for over 5,000 years, widespread urbanization is a more recent phenomenon occurring mostly in the last 150 years. Key events and factors in the growth of cities include the development of agriculture allowing for permanent settlements, the rise of centralized authority under kings which led to the emergence of the first citadels and walled cities, and the industrial revolution which vastly accelerated the urbanization process and changed the role of cities globally. The document references several scholars and their works analyzing urbanization trends and the strategic importance of cities throughout history.
This document discusses theories of urban form and city patterns. It begins by defining urban form and some factors that influence city patterns, such as geography, natural environment, and socioeconomic forces. It then examines three common urban patterns: linear, cluster, and hierarchical. The document also discusses urban morphology and the analysis of urban form elements. Finally, it analyzes three early theories of urban form: the concentric zone model, sector model, and multiple nuclei model; and notes some criticisms of each approach.
Modernism arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to changes in Western society from industrialization. It rejected traditional forms of art, religion, and social organization as outdated. Modernism was marked by an intentional break from tradition and conservative views. Postmodernism emerged as a critique of modernism in the 1970s, abandoning strict modernist geometry for more flowing, embellished designs and a return to ornamentation on buildings. Postmodern urban areas are characterized by ethnic diversity, multinodal structures, spectacular centers, and high social polarization distinguished by consumption patterns.
A presentation on "Evolution of town, cities and urban: A world perspective, by Rajendra P Sharma, Social Anthropologist and Planner, Kathmandu, Nepal can be reached at rpsharma@mailcity.com
History & Theory of Planning: Origins of Modern City PlanningAnuradha Mukherji
This document discusses the origins of modern city planning and 19th century reform movements. It describes the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in cities due to industrialization and mass immigration. Housing, such as tenements in New York City, were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary. This led to public health crises and reform movements focused on sanitation, parks, and municipal governance. Figures like Frederick Law Olmsted designed new types of urban planning focused on parks and green spaces to address these issues.
This document discusses various theories and models of urban morphology and land use, including Burgess's concentric zone model, Hoyt's sector model, and the multiple nuclei model. It also examines factors that influence urban form such as transportation, land value, and population density. Criticisms of the different models are provided. The document provides an overview of concepts and patterns in urban spatial structure.
CREATING CITIES, SHAPING INDIVIDUALS Urban Land Use PlanningMarion Micah Tinio
Urban land use planning is essential for managing land resources and guiding development in cities. It determines how land can be used through comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances. Land use decisions are shaped by physical, social, economic factors and stakeholder motives. Urbanization and population growth require optimizing land use to promote public welfare. Effective planning encourages suitable development and restrains misuse while allowing for changing needs over time.
Lecture (second of three parts) for the 2018 UP Plano Board Exam Review Sessions; content credited to The City Reader (2016) and my Plan 201 learnings.
Relationship between man and physical environmentKomal644
The document discusses the relationship between the physical environment and human behavior. It explains that human activities interact with and impact the environment. Population growth leads to issues like pollution, climate change, deforestation, and water pollution due to industrialization, fossil fuel use, and resource consumption. These human impacts degrade the environment and ecosystems. The document calls for more sustainable utilization of resources to preserve them for future generations.
The document provides an overview of the course "Introduction to Urban Planning" including the course objectives, content, and concepts covered. The course aims to equip students with theoretical, methodological and practical skills for urban planning. It will cover topics such as theories of urban form including group form, compositional form and megastructure. It will also cover urban analysis approaches like morphology, typology-morphology and urban tissues. Additionally, it will discuss regional planning concepts and the design of new urban entities.
Copy of sustainable urban development ppt presentationAr. Mukunda K.S
This document discusses sustainable urban development in Indian cities. It notes that sustainable cities must provide basic needs and infrastructure for all sections of society without burdening future generations. Strong cities depend on healthy environments, robust economies, and employment. The focus is on sensitizing decision-makers to the problems of urban poor. It outlines some initiatives and progress made towards sustainable development, including conferences and commissions. It also discusses challenges facing large Indian cities like population growth, pollution, poor housing, and loss of green space. Sustainable development theory is still evolving given pressures on cities and problems faced by migrant populations.
The Burgess model describes the patterns of land use in cities with concentric zones expanding outward from the center. The center zone (CBD) is the oldest part of the city containing commercial areas. The transition zone immediately outside the CBD is mixed-use and undergoing renewal. The inner city zone further out typically contains older terraced housing and some industry. The inner and outer suburbs zones contain newer housing, parks, and other amenities spreading to the edges of the city. The model assumes socio-economic status decreases with distance from the CBD.
Postmodern Urbanism and the New PsychogeographyTina Richardson
This lecture provides an overview of some of the theoretical approaches to the postmodern city highlighting the issues that pertain to the appearance of urban space under neoliberalism. You will be introduced to some of the leading contemporary thinkers from the field of urban theory/planning and urban cultural studies. Many of the motifs that arise in the theories of contemporary urban life have been incorporated into the critical practices of a number of today’s urban walkers. These practitioners have developed their own form of psychogeography which responds to the complexity of postmodern space in different ways. Tina’s lecture will tease out some of these motifs and will demonstrate how they have been incorporated into the various methodologies of the New Psychogeography.
1) Alberti advocated for straight, broad streets in Renaissance city planning as they conveyed grandeur and security. He argued streets should wind to allow views of buildings from every angle.
2) Squares were important for commerce, youth activities, and storing wartime provisions. While circular squares were ideal, irregular shapes fit sites better.
3) Renaissance cities featured more regular street grids than Alberti's winding streets, though flexibility remained. Urban planning centered public spaces like Florence's Uffizi courtyard.
The document discusses how Los Angeles exemplifies a postmodern city due to its instability from being built on a fault line and surrounded by desert, its decentralized and fragmented nature with no clear center and emergence of edge cities, and high levels of segregation among its population. It also notes the many social, environmental, and infrastructure problems facing the city like pollution, traffic, gangs, and lack of public transportation options. Scholars analyze how Los Angeles has come to represent future urban forms through its sprawl, reliance on cars, and myth-making around concepts like climate and freeways.
This document discusses sustainable urban development and building greener cities. It covers topics like sustainability, community planning, green buildings, mass transit, and planning with nature. The goal of sustainability is to meet present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Sustainable community planning considers social, environmental, and economic impacts of policies. Tools like energy efficiency and conservation block grants can fund projects that reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions.
The document discusses several current issues in urban design. It notes that cities have become too large to understand and manage effectively. It also says that local communities are often sidelined in the design process, and that economic priorities sometimes lead to large developments that are unsustainable. The document argues that urban design is more than just beautification and should promote better integration across administrative and disciplinary boundaries.
This document proposes re-envisioning infrastructure in urban areas by shaping new edges with transportation infrastructure like bus rapid transit for the Metro Transit Hiawatha Line, considering existing and envisioned land uses as well as urban stakeholders. The design intention is to create a new urban ecology through infrastructure changes.
A resident created a rain garden by digging out an existing bed and mixing in sand and manure. Several neighbors helped with the work. Rocks from the resident's old house were used to form a stream bed to direct water to a lower level. Native wildflowers will be planted that will attract butterflies and birds while reducing the need for watering.
This document provides an overview of urban planning, sustainable development, sustainable architecture, and sustainable cities. It discusses the history and theories of urban planning and how planners guide development. Technical aspects of planning like land use and infrastructure are examined. The roles of sustainable development, sustainable architecture, and creating sustainable cities to meet needs without compromising the future are also summarized. Urban planning aims to optimize communities while balancing environmental, economic, and social considerations.
- The document discusses the importance of preserving open spaces and vegetation in urban planning to balance environmental, social and economic needs. It notes trees and vegetation provide aesthetic, climatic and engineering benefits.
- It outlines various values and benefits of trees related to architecture, climate, site development and engineering like moderating temperatures, intercepting rainfall, stabilizing soils and reducing pollution. Trees also have economic and legal value by enhancing property values.
- Jurisdictions have enacted preservation ordinances to balance development with resource protection. Successful preservation must integrate into early planning stages rather than be retrofitted later. Proper protection of trees during construction is also important to prevent root damage.
This document discusses the history and development of cities from early villages to modern urban centers. It notes that while cities have existed for over 5,000 years, widespread urbanization is a more recent phenomenon occurring mostly in the last 150 years. Key events and factors in the growth of cities include the development of agriculture allowing for permanent settlements, the rise of centralized authority under kings which led to the emergence of the first citadels and walled cities, and the industrial revolution which vastly accelerated the urbanization process and changed the role of cities globally. The document references several scholars and their works analyzing urbanization trends and the strategic importance of cities throughout history.
This document discusses theories of urban form and city patterns. It begins by defining urban form and some factors that influence city patterns, such as geography, natural environment, and socioeconomic forces. It then examines three common urban patterns: linear, cluster, and hierarchical. The document also discusses urban morphology and the analysis of urban form elements. Finally, it analyzes three early theories of urban form: the concentric zone model, sector model, and multiple nuclei model; and notes some criticisms of each approach.
Modernism arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to changes in Western society from industrialization. It rejected traditional forms of art, religion, and social organization as outdated. Modernism was marked by an intentional break from tradition and conservative views. Postmodernism emerged as a critique of modernism in the 1970s, abandoning strict modernist geometry for more flowing, embellished designs and a return to ornamentation on buildings. Postmodern urban areas are characterized by ethnic diversity, multinodal structures, spectacular centers, and high social polarization distinguished by consumption patterns.
A presentation on "Evolution of town, cities and urban: A world perspective, by Rajendra P Sharma, Social Anthropologist and Planner, Kathmandu, Nepal can be reached at rpsharma@mailcity.com
History & Theory of Planning: Origins of Modern City PlanningAnuradha Mukherji
This document discusses the origins of modern city planning and 19th century reform movements. It describes the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in cities due to industrialization and mass immigration. Housing, such as tenements in New York City, were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary. This led to public health crises and reform movements focused on sanitation, parks, and municipal governance. Figures like Frederick Law Olmsted designed new types of urban planning focused on parks and green spaces to address these issues.
This document discusses various theories and models of urban morphology and land use, including Burgess's concentric zone model, Hoyt's sector model, and the multiple nuclei model. It also examines factors that influence urban form such as transportation, land value, and population density. Criticisms of the different models are provided. The document provides an overview of concepts and patterns in urban spatial structure.
CREATING CITIES, SHAPING INDIVIDUALS Urban Land Use PlanningMarion Micah Tinio
Urban land use planning is essential for managing land resources and guiding development in cities. It determines how land can be used through comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances. Land use decisions are shaped by physical, social, economic factors and stakeholder motives. Urbanization and population growth require optimizing land use to promote public welfare. Effective planning encourages suitable development and restrains misuse while allowing for changing needs over time.
Lecture (second of three parts) for the 2018 UP Plano Board Exam Review Sessions; content credited to The City Reader (2016) and my Plan 201 learnings.
Relationship between man and physical environmentKomal644
The document discusses the relationship between the physical environment and human behavior. It explains that human activities interact with and impact the environment. Population growth leads to issues like pollution, climate change, deforestation, and water pollution due to industrialization, fossil fuel use, and resource consumption. These human impacts degrade the environment and ecosystems. The document calls for more sustainable utilization of resources to preserve them for future generations.
The document provides an overview of the course "Introduction to Urban Planning" including the course objectives, content, and concepts covered. The course aims to equip students with theoretical, methodological and practical skills for urban planning. It will cover topics such as theories of urban form including group form, compositional form and megastructure. It will also cover urban analysis approaches like morphology, typology-morphology and urban tissues. Additionally, it will discuss regional planning concepts and the design of new urban entities.
Copy of sustainable urban development ppt presentationAr. Mukunda K.S
This document discusses sustainable urban development in Indian cities. It notes that sustainable cities must provide basic needs and infrastructure for all sections of society without burdening future generations. Strong cities depend on healthy environments, robust economies, and employment. The focus is on sensitizing decision-makers to the problems of urban poor. It outlines some initiatives and progress made towards sustainable development, including conferences and commissions. It also discusses challenges facing large Indian cities like population growth, pollution, poor housing, and loss of green space. Sustainable development theory is still evolving given pressures on cities and problems faced by migrant populations.
The Burgess model describes the patterns of land use in cities with concentric zones expanding outward from the center. The center zone (CBD) is the oldest part of the city containing commercial areas. The transition zone immediately outside the CBD is mixed-use and undergoing renewal. The inner city zone further out typically contains older terraced housing and some industry. The inner and outer suburbs zones contain newer housing, parks, and other amenities spreading to the edges of the city. The model assumes socio-economic status decreases with distance from the CBD.
Postmodern Urbanism and the New PsychogeographyTina Richardson
This lecture provides an overview of some of the theoretical approaches to the postmodern city highlighting the issues that pertain to the appearance of urban space under neoliberalism. You will be introduced to some of the leading contemporary thinkers from the field of urban theory/planning and urban cultural studies. Many of the motifs that arise in the theories of contemporary urban life have been incorporated into the critical practices of a number of today’s urban walkers. These practitioners have developed their own form of psychogeography which responds to the complexity of postmodern space in different ways. Tina’s lecture will tease out some of these motifs and will demonstrate how they have been incorporated into the various methodologies of the New Psychogeography.
1) Alberti advocated for straight, broad streets in Renaissance city planning as they conveyed grandeur and security. He argued streets should wind to allow views of buildings from every angle.
2) Squares were important for commerce, youth activities, and storing wartime provisions. While circular squares were ideal, irregular shapes fit sites better.
3) Renaissance cities featured more regular street grids than Alberti's winding streets, though flexibility remained. Urban planning centered public spaces like Florence's Uffizi courtyard.
The document discusses how Los Angeles exemplifies a postmodern city due to its instability from being built on a fault line and surrounded by desert, its decentralized and fragmented nature with no clear center and emergence of edge cities, and high levels of segregation among its population. It also notes the many social, environmental, and infrastructure problems facing the city like pollution, traffic, gangs, and lack of public transportation options. Scholars analyze how Los Angeles has come to represent future urban forms through its sprawl, reliance on cars, and myth-making around concepts like climate and freeways.
This document discusses sustainable urban development and building greener cities. It covers topics like sustainability, community planning, green buildings, mass transit, and planning with nature. The goal of sustainability is to meet present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Sustainable community planning considers social, environmental, and economic impacts of policies. Tools like energy efficiency and conservation block grants can fund projects that reduce energy use and fossil fuel emissions.
The document discusses several current issues in urban design. It notes that cities have become too large to understand and manage effectively. It also says that local communities are often sidelined in the design process, and that economic priorities sometimes lead to large developments that are unsustainable. The document argues that urban design is more than just beautification and should promote better integration across administrative and disciplinary boundaries.
This document proposes re-envisioning infrastructure in urban areas by shaping new edges with transportation infrastructure like bus rapid transit for the Metro Transit Hiawatha Line, considering existing and envisioned land uses as well as urban stakeholders. The design intention is to create a new urban ecology through infrastructure changes.
A resident created a rain garden by digging out an existing bed and mixing in sand and manure. Several neighbors helped with the work. Rocks from the resident's old house were used to form a stream bed to direct water to a lower level. Native wildflowers will be planted that will attract butterflies and birds while reducing the need for watering.
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage aims to be an environmentally conscious community that shares resources and respects the Earth. The ecovillage consists of 80 buildings housing 90 households on 200 acres including woods and a cemetery, with houses oriented for solar gain. A supportive foundation offers low-interest loans for housing in the ecovillage located 7 minutes from downtown.
The 2015 Catchment Based Approach Conference was held on June 8th at Fishmonger's Hall in London. The focus of the day was the sharing of best practice between partnerships. Nick Paling from the Westcountry Rivers Trust gave a presentation entitled, 'Ecosystem Service benefits in the Urban Environment: Developing a common framework for delivery & communication' as part of the 'Delivery in the Urban Environment' session.
Cities are complex urban ecosystems made up of interconnected social and ecological systems. As centers of population, economic activity, and infrastructure, cities concentrate resources and waste while supporting a diversity of plant and animal life. However, urban development also transforms natural landscapes and introduces environmental challenges around pollution, resource use, and biodiversity that cities must address through planning and management.
This document discusses urban ecology and the importance of integrating ecology into cities for sustainability. It describes how urbanization fragments and degrades natural habitats, disrupting ecological functions. Green networks of interconnected natural areas at multiple scales can help mitigate these impacts by enhancing ecosystem services, protecting biodiversity, and maintaining planet health. Examples of green network components discussed include river restoration, urban nature preserves, wildlife crossings over infrastructure, and converting vacant/brownfield lands into green spaces.
The document discusses concepts related to ecology, urban ecology, and ecologically sustainable development (ESD). It defines ecology as the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. Urban ecology deals specifically with these relationships in urban settings. ESD aims to use resources in a way that maintains ecological processes for current and future generations. The document outlines principles of ESD, such as the precautionary principle, and approaches to integrate ESD into urban and transport planning. It provides Curitiba, Brazil as an example that implemented innovative planning strategies to promote sustainability.
ASEM 2012 How to define the problem Hedgepetholiverinva
This document discusses a case study of using RFID tracking technology to track dump trucks during an Alaskan road construction project. The initial problem statement was to compare manually tracking trucks to using RFID technology. However, over the course of the project, the problem statement, assumptions, and metrics changed significantly. By the end of the project, the metrics had expanded to include 19 variables but were ultimately reduced back to just two variables - time and distance traveled by trucks. The shifting problem definition and metrics made analyzing the results difficult and inconsistent. The document emphasizes the importance of clearly defining the problem statement and metrics upfront to avoid an unstable or changing problem definition over the course of a research project.
Hygienic practices and microbial contamination of small-scale poultry slaught...ILRI
Poster by Pham Thi Ngoc, Pham Thi Nga, Dinh Xuan Tung , Gilbert J, Lapar ML, Unger F, Nguyen Viet Hung, Pham Duc Phuc and Nguyen Viet Khong presented at the Ecohealth 2012 conference held at Kunming, China on 15-18 October 2012.
The document discusses several mixed-use and residential real estate projects in Vietnam that VinaCapital is developing or invested in. Times Square Hanoi is a landmark mixed-use development located in a new urban growth area in western Hanoi. It will include a 61,000 square meter retail podium and high-rise buildings for hotel, residential, and office use. The site is adjacent to a popular retail hypermarket and faces a main boulevard and convention center.
This document summarizes some key innovations in urban planning in New York City, including high density mixed use developments, effective public-private partnerships, and planning for economic resilience and climate change. It discusses how successful public spaces like Central Park and the Highline have added value to surrounding real estate. It also notes that New York City has a large percentage of residents who use public transportation and few parking spaces, keeping streets lively. Battery Park City is highlighted as an example of successful zoning for mixed income housing and public spaces.
Placemaking aims to transform neighborhoods from places people want to leave into places they never want to leave. It fosters community identity and spirit through public spaces, cultural activities, and social interaction. Placemaking can add value by increasing foot traffic, creating unique identities, and building community goodwill. Case studies demonstrate using art, neighborhood revitalization, and tactical urbanism to activate spaces. Placemaking requires long-term strategic civic engagement, vision planning, and programming to sustain lively public destinations.
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage aims to be an environmentally conscious community that shares resources and respects the Earth. The ecovillage consists of 80 buildings housing 90 households on 200 acres including woods and a cemetery, with homes designed to maximize solar energy. A supportive foundation offers low-interest loans for housing in the ecovillage located just 7 minutes from downtown.
This document proposes re-envisioning infrastructure in urban areas by shaping new edges with transportation infrastructure like bus rapid transit for the Metro Transit Hiawatha Line, considering existing and envisioned land uses as well as urban stakeholders. The design intention is to create a new urban ecology through infrastructure changes.
The document discusses an urban agriculture and social ecology curriculum being implemented at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School. The curriculum aims to engage students and the community through hands-on learning centered around urban agriculture. Key goals include developing student-centered education, connecting youth to their environment and culture, and addressing community needs like health, sustainability and cultural preservation.
This document defines key terms related to petroleum biodegradation and bioremediation. It discusses how bioremediation uses microorganisms to transform pollutants like oil spills into less toxic forms through biodegradation. Several factors influence bioremediation, including the presence of microbes that can degrade pollutants, availability of the pollutants to the microbes, and environmental conditions like temperature, pH, oxygen, and nutrients. The document also provides examples of microbes involved in hydrocarbon degradation and outlines the principles and processes of bioremediation.
Details OF bioremediation and Oilzapper TechnologyManish Dwivedi
The document discusses bioremediation of oil spills by ONGC Ltd. in Ahmedabad, India. It notes that ONGC has bioremediated over 50,000 metric tons of oil contaminated soil across 63 installations within a 70 km radius of Ahmedabad since 2006. Both in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation techniques are used, with the latter involving transportation of contaminated soil to secure bioremediation pits for treatment. The indigenous bacterial consortium Oilzapper, developed by TERI, is applied to degrade the oil in the contaminated soil through a monitored bioremediation process, with soil sampling done to test the reduction in total petroleum hydrocarbons over time.
Urbanization leads to rural migration and suburban concentration into cities. As cities grow, more land and waterways are modified to accommodate increased population needs. This modification impacts local ecosystems and drives changes in biogeochemical cycles. For example, fertilizer runoff from agricultural lands pollutes waterways and causes eutrophication. Urban areas also impact the climate through increased greenhouse gas emissions and the urban heat island effect. Understanding these environmental effects of urbanization is important for sustainable future development.
This document discusses key concepts related to social systems and organizational culture. It defines a social system as a complex set of human relationships that interact in many ways. An organizational culture refers to the shared values, norms, and behaviors that characterize an organization. The document also explores topics like social equilibrium, psychological contracts between employers and employees, cultural diversity, social roles and status, and how organizational culture is communicated and changes over time.
1) The document discusses the concept of a "Biophilic City" - a city designed to be in greater harmony with nature through increased biodiversity and green spaces. It argues there are economic benefits to such an approach.
2) Some potential economic benefits discussed include increased property values and tourism in more attractive cities with greater biodiversity and green spaces, health and productivity improvements from exposure to nature, reduced energy and infrastructure costs from urban greening and cooling, local food production reducing transportation costs, and carbon sequestration.
3) The document argues the economic case for "Biophilic Cities" has not been fully made yet but aspects like these could provide cities that adopt greater integration with nature an economic advantage
This document provides an overview of a thesis project studying the transformation of vacant land into green space in Brooklyn, New York. Specifically, it examines the development of the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, a new park designed to capture stormwater runoff while serving as an educational space. Through on-site observations, interviews, literature review and analysis of institutional relationships, the project aims to understand the process of creating this type of green infrastructure and develop a framework that can be replicated in other cities. Initial results suggest the park is starting to meet some social and ecological goals, but more data is still needed to fully understand its performance and educational impact.
1) The document discusses the need for achieving culture-environment parity in development planning for growing cities to achieve ecological balance.
2) It argues that considering both the environment and local culture is important to make cities sustainable and ensure public participation in planning.
3) The ideal model is one where development and environmental protection progress together by incorporating cultural values and recognizing cities as living systems interconnected with nature.
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-nature continuum to minimize the environmental and cultural impacts of development. Maintaining the environmental quality curve above the "environmental breakeven of development" threshold over time despite rising development is key to sustainable development.
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.
1. The document discusses achieving ecological balance in growing cities through culture-environment parity in development planning.
2. It argues that considering both the environment and local culture is necessary to develop cities in a sustainable way and prevent "civilization disasters".
3. The ideal model incorporates cultural values into planning to minimize the "cultural shock of development" and ensure long-term sustainability through community participation and responsibility.
The document discusses the importance of biodiversity conservation and integrated action to address threats to biodiversity. It notes that biodiversity drives key ecological functions and provides valuable economic services. However, overconsumption, population growth, habitat loss, and failure to account for ecological trade-offs are reducing biodiversity. The consequences of biodiversity loss disproportionately impact the poor. Integrated scientific, political, and economic action is needed worldwide to mitigate human-caused biodiversity decline.
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
The document discusses how humanity has become a dominant force shaping the biosphere and the need to understand social-ecological systems from local to global scales. It addresses three governance challenges - anticipating potential tipping points and regime shifts in systems, enhancing the adaptive capacity of systems, and enabling transformation into more sustainable trajectories. As an example, it discusses the rigidity trap facing agriculture in Australia's Goulburn-Broken region from high water use causing salinization problems.
Early civilizations like Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and Rome demonstrated how water management impacted population and the environment. In Mesopotamia, overuse of irrigation led to soil salinization and decreased crop yields, forcing population decline. The Indus Valley implemented basic sanitation to reduce malaria, but did not sufficiently manage rivers. Rome grew to over 1 million people through engineering projects but also overused resources, requiring its capital to move. Integrated water resource management provides a framework to sustainably manage water, but must be tailored to each community.
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3. Table of Contents
Urban Wildlife
Plants
Urban Permaculture
City Farming
Farmscape
A Changing Climate
350.org
Design Strategies
Urban Ecology
Human Ecology
An Engineered Evolution
Ecological Urbanism
A Basis for Shaping Cities
A New Urban Ground
New Urbanism
Water
+POOL
The Plastiki Expedition
4.
5. The traditional design values of the past have contributed
greatly to the shape of the physical landscape of our cities
and towns, at the same time have contributed very little
to their environmental health. Today, more than half of
the world’s population lives in cities and suburbs, and they
share these urban habitats with many other species. Urban
Ecology is the study of the distribution, abundance and in-
teractions of plants and animals (including humans) within
urban and suburban environments.
As the urban landscape develops there is collateral dam-
age along the way. Urban ecologists study vegetation, wa-
ter flow, wildlife, and open spaces in cities to monitor the
health of these resources and how they respond to pollu-
tion, development and other pressures created by humans
and the urban landscape.
Throughout this book I will shed light on a few effects of
urbanization and what some people are doing to counter
act and correct it.
Urban Ecology
Culture
EcologyPolitics
6. Human Ecology
Human ecology is the study of the relationships and in-
teractions among human, their biology, their cultures, and
their physical environments. Within these relationships are
the concepts of change and adaptation to change. As an
environment changes, the organisms within it must adapt
with it.
Humans are self-aware, cooperative, technological, and
highly social making their interactions with the environ-
ment more complex. Fore instance, in developed countries,
instead of adapting through natural selection as most or-
ganisms do, humans tend to use technology to adapt their
environment to their needs, wants, and desires. We can
sometimes see changes in our environment as problems to
solve with out considering the effects of our actions.
There is a need for the realization that humans and their
cultures are an integral part of the environment around
them. Through their actions, humans stimulate change
within their environment, thus must then adapt to this
newly created environment.
Problem
Action
Solution
Ecological
Effects
Human Ecology
Human Biological Ecology
(Adaptation through
Biological Means)
(Adaptation through
Cultural Means)
(The Overall Study of Human Interachtions with the
Environmantal)
Cultural Ecology
7. An example of this cycle in action is the creation of Geneti-
cally Modified Foods (GMO’s). GMO’s are foods produced
from organisms that have had specific changes introduced
into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering.
These techniques have allowed for the introduction of new
crop traits as well as a far greater control over a food’s ge-
netic structure than previously afforded by methods such
as selective breeding and mutation breeding. GMO’s were
introduced into our food chain was originally to achieve
greater yield. Crop species were engineered to produce
larger fruits and in larger quantities, to be more resistant
to insect pests and microbial infections, to have greater
tolerance to drought and frost, to require less growing
space, etc. These all result in more pounds of apples, car-
rots, corn, potatoes, and so on being harvested, leading to
greater market supply and thus lower prices.
Some foods were modified to produce chemical compounds
such as vitamins and other nutrients not normally present in
them, to make for a more efficient source of nutrition.
The problem: By genetically engineering the food we pro-
duce and digest we have caused changes both in ourselves,
and the environment around us. Countries that produce
“GM Foods” have seen an increase in disease, food aller-
gies, and antibiotic resistance.
An Engineered Evolution
8. Ecological Urbanism - Addressing the retrofit of existing
urban conditions as well as our plans for the cities of the
future, ecological urbanism utilizes a multiplicity of old and
new methods, tools, and techniques in a cross disciplinary
and collaborative approach toward urbanism developed
through the lens of ecology.
A collaborative, trans-disciplinary approach through eco-
logical urbanism can give designers a potentially more fer-
tile means of addressing the challenges facing our urban
environments today and pave the way to the cities of the
future with an emphasis on biodiversity.
In Curitiba, Brazil, city planners and designers are working
to improve the quality of life for its inhabitants through en-
vironmental planning and landscape ecology. This city of
roughly 1.7 million people has become a world model of
reference for sustainable development.
As the populations of the world increase, more and more
people are flocking to cities faster than the infrastructure
can adapt. With this rapid growth of city dwellers comes
greater exploration of the planet’s limited resources.
Ecological Urbanism
9. A Basis for Shaping Cities
“An open space is like virginity, once lost it can never be
regained.”
Above is a blunt statement that rings some truth when
we are confronted with the destruction of priceless land-
scapes and cultural heritage in the face of urban devel-
opment. With design, there is a direct connection to the
notion of change, and the constructive opportunities that
change provides.
When looking at civil engineering, building, planning and
design there is a desire to control, not only nature, but also
human behavior. The very nature of pedigreed design has
had little time or understanding for the natural processes
that shape human environments.
The urban environment serves to isolate us from an aware-
ness of the natural and human processes that support life.
But, the essential creativity of nature, the processes that
continue modified and often degraded, continue to func-
tion. The problem with the way in which cities were de-
veloped in the past is that we failed to see nature as an
integrated connecting system that operates in one way or
another regardless of locality, whether this is the rural or
natural region, or within the city itself.
10. an integrated and reciprocal organi- zation of natural and
hard infrastructure systems. A combination of strategies,
including perimeter wetlands, a raised edge, and sponge
slips paired with new upland street infrastructure systems,
protect the island from flooding in the event of a large storm.
Their proposal consists of two components that form an in-
terconnected system: porous green streets and a graduated
edge. Typical rain events will infiltrate porous streets and
help keep surface water out of the city’s combined sewer
system. In larger storms, the streets filter and carry water to
new perimeter wetlands to enrich coastal ecologies.
MoMA Rising Currents: A New Urban Ground
Calling attention to Manhattan’s vulnerability to the im-
pacts of climate change, DLandStudio partnered with
ARO want to create “A New Urban Ground”.
Currently an oppositional relationship exists between the
built city and water. “A New Urban Ground” proposes
A New Urban Ground
The image to the right illustrates a comparison of how Manhattan looked in 1609 to 1960.
11. New Urbanism is based on principles of planning and archi-
tecture that work together to create human-scale, walkable
communities. The trend has had a substantial impact with
more than 500 new towns, villages, and neighborhoods in
the US, all using principles from New Urbanism. The New
Urbanism includes traditional architects and who believe in
the power and ability of traditional neighborhoods to re-
store functional, sustainable communities.
Portland, Oregon is one of America’s most walkable cities
Principles of the New Urbanism
1. The neighborhood is the basic building block of a com-
munity.
2. Neighborhoods should have a fine-grained mix of land
uses, providing opportunities for young and old to find
places to live, work, shop, and be entertained.
3. Corridors form the boundaries between neighborhoods
both connect and define the neighborhoods. Corridors can
incorporate natural features such as streams or canyons.
4. Human scale sets the standard for proportion in build-
ings.
5. Must provide equal consideration to all modes of trans-
portation to relieve congestion and to provide people with
useful, realistic choices.
6. Streets designed as a network, to create the greatest
number of alternative routes from one part of the neighbor-
hood to another.
7. Civic buildings belong on preferred sites such as squares
or neighborhood centers, or where the view down a street
terminates.
New Urbanism
12.
13. Water
Urbanization, industrialization, and population growth
have greatly modified landscapes, and by doing so have
also effected the continuous circulation of water within
catchments and the hydrological cycle. The hydrological
cycle controls many important processes for the earth.
Several of these being the transportation of pollutants,
water chemistry management, nutrient fluxes, erosion, and
the management of surface and groundwater levels. The
function of many ecological processes depend on the wa-
ter cycle and the quality of aquatic habitats and ecological
stability of their ecosystems.
When we develop within a watershed, we affect the hydro-
logic cycle. The increase in impervious or hard surfaces,
including rooftops and pavement (roads, driveways, and
parking lots), decreases the amount of water that soaks
into the ground, or infiltrates. This increases the amount
of surface runoff. The impervious surfaces collect and ac-
cumulate pollutants, such as those leaked from vehicles, or
deposited from the atmosphere through rain or snowmelt.
The runoff water carries pollutants directly into water bod-
ies. Because there is less infiltration, peak flows of storm
water runoff are larger and arrive earlier, increasing the
magnitude of urban floods. However, affects on the water
cycle are not limited to surface water. Paving may alter the
location of recharge, or replenishment, of groundwater
supplies, restricting it to the remaining unpaved areas. If
infiltration is decreased sufficiently, groundwater levels may
decline, affecting stream flows during dry weather periods.
Lowered groundwater levels can result in subsequent well
failures. While the effects of urbanization on the water cycle
can be major, if wise choices are made during the develop-
ment process, the impacts can be minimized and our future
water supply protected.
14. +Pool is an initiative to build a floating pool in the rivers of
New York City for everyone to enjoy.
The most important aspect of +Pool’s design is that it fil-
ters river water through the pool’s walls - like a giant strain-
er dropped into the river. The concentric layers of filtration
materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed
to remove bacteria, contaminants and odors, leaving only
safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and feder-
al standards of quality. This pool will be the first of it’s kind,
which is of course very exciting, but really we just want to
be able to swim in the river.
They also wanted +Pool to be enjoyed by everyone, at
all times, which is why it is designed as four pools in one:
Children’s Pool, Sports Pool, Lap Pool and Lounge Pool.
Each pool can be used independently to cater to all types
of swimmers, combined to form an Olympic-length lap
pool, or opened completely into a 9,000 square foot pool
for play.
Prevents objects and contanimants of 150 microns and
larger from passing through:
Removes contaminants down to 1 micron:
Deactivation of microorganisms:
Primary Screening
Secondary Filtration
Disinfection
WILDLIFE FLOATABLES GREASE & SEDIMENTS SUSPENDED
& DEBRIS OIL SOLIDS
SUSPENDED ORGANIC ALGAE BACTERIA
SOLIDS MATTER
BACTERIA VIRUSES
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+POOL
Layered Filtration System
15. The Plastiki Expedition took sail on March 20th, 2010 with
a crew of 6 from San Francisco, CA on a journey spread-
ing environmental awareness and landed in Sydney, Aus on
July 26th, 2010. The crew consisted of three sailors, two film
crew and a british adventurer/ecologist/environmentalist,
David De Rothschild.
Plastiki was a 60’ catamaran made from reclaimed plastic
bottles and other recycle PET plastic and waste products.
Built with a philosophy adopted from Cradle to Cradle the
hull was designed by naval architect Andrew Dovell, and
features renewable systems including solar panels, wind
and trailing propeller turbines, and bicycle generators.
Their mission was to sail across the Pacific on a vessel built
of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles with plans to visit sev-
eral ssites along the way of either econlogical importance
or that were susceptible to environmental issues caused by
global warming, such as the rise in sea level, ocean acidifi-
cation, and marine pollution.
The Plastiki Expedition
16. When people feed stray cats, they may have their hearts in
the right place. People should be kind to animals. However
there are unintended consequences when feeding strays. A
well fed stray can breed more often and will typically have
bigger, healthier litters with better survival rates for the kit-
tens.
Feral cats thrive in urban and suburban environments. Liv-
ing amongst us and feasting on the food waste we throw
out and the mice and rats that are attracted to it. This has
happened due to people abandoning their non-spayed
and non-neutered cats to the wild.
The average life span of a feral cat is about six years,
around the same as a pet cat. However, female cats of re-
productive maturity, 4 to 6 months old, will go into heat
and
twice a year, once in their first year of life and twice each
year thereafter. That’s on average 11 heats before they die,
more if they live longer. At an average of eight kittens a lit-
ter, that’s 88 new cats in a lifetime and each of these new
feral cats will be breed also. By some estimates, a male and
female cat can create a population of over 400,000 cats
in seven years! So it’s easy to see how feral cats can grow
quickly and become a problem.
Over time human civilization has switched from an Arca-
dian view of peaceful co-existence with wildlife to a Util-
itarian of nature as a resource. Urbanization has radically
altered natural habitats and the wildlife communities with-
in them. For example, within cities more than half of the
plants are alien to area, all arriving by human assistance.
Wildlife however is much more difficult to control, so their
presence becomes more obvious and can be problematic.
As the natural environment continues to be disturbed by
human activity, there is an imbalance within plant and an-
imal communities. This imbalance can cause the loss of
habitats on which species depend on for food, shelter, and
breeding means that they have to adjust to the new con-
ditions for survival. The more adaptable the species, the
better chance for it to survive and flourish, the less adapt-
able do not.
The Feral Cat Dilemma
Urban Wildlife
17. “Plants are the basis for life on earth. They produce all the
oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere; they provide the food
and habitat through photosynthesis that supports all living
creatures.”
Society has disregarded and mistreated this vital building
block that allows us to exist here on this planet. But, even in
the urban landscape plants manage to survive due to their
tenacity and ability to evolve and adapt to the new condi-
tions and niches that we create within a city.
In the developed world we’ve replaced our forests and
meadows, and replaced them with steel, concrete, and oth-
er man made objects. We then added carpets of mown
turf with ornamental trees and shrubs in the locations we
choose for where we could “control” them.
But, there are more sustainable tactics that we could be im-
plementing into our urban settings that could bring back
the natural systems that are found in nature.
Plants
18. A forest garden, which aims to recreate the way a forest
grows, is a typical permaculture approach. By planting
your garden area in a series of four layers, you imitate the
natural processes of a forest. First, you have a canopy lay-
er, created by planting trees, especially fruit or nut-bearing
trees. Then you plant shrubs, like blackberry or other fruit
bushes that thrive in the shade. The third layer is created
by climbers, like vines that can climb up the trees toward
the light. The fourth layer is a ground layer of leafy greens,
like lettuce or strawberries.
People and the community are very much included as part
of permaculture design. In fact, permaculturists want to
help people be part of their community and be involved
in caring for their environment. One of the aims of urban
permaculture is to transform the cityscape by making it
greener and more sustainable, offering people a more
holistic way of living, even in the big city. With ideas like
gray-water reclamation systems, the use of solar and wind
power; permaculturists aim to create a way of living that
increases efficiency and minimizes waste.
The permaculture movement runs a variety of courses teach-
ing permaculture design principles, which can be applied
to any setting. Permaculture designs can be site-specific,
meaning you can use a variety of permaculture principles,
transform your lawn, balcony or patio into a food-producing
permaculture garden.
We could easily introduce permaculture into urban environ-
ments. We have great access in the city to a variety of free,
excess nutrients and materials to build healthy soil and gar-
den infrastructure.
Urban Permaculture
19. The process in which the food that appears in our grocery
stores today is produced is foreign to the way we did it
in the past. Today it is dependent on worldwide market-
ing and distribution networks operating on fossil fuels and
based on international trade agreements. But, in the last
decade, there have been signs that patterns of consump-
tion and ecological priorities are shifting. One of these
signs of change is the pursuit of a more healthy diet.
There has been a growing number of health food stores,
farmers’ markets, organics, and allotment gardening, sug-
gesting that communities are ready for a return to home-
grown versus “factory-made” food. We are seeing more
and more gardens sprouting up all over America cities, gar-
dens being tended by your everyday citizen, co-op commu-
nity gardens, and even restaurant gardens.
City Farming
20. Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture in Los An-
geles. They design, install, and maintain urban farms. Farm-
scape is bringing the farm back to the city one plot at a
time.
An expert Farmscape farmer will visit your urban farm week-
ly to manage all aspects of your vegetable cultivation. Their
weekly farming service includes successive plantings, pest
and disease control, crop rotation, and irrigation mainte-
nance. Your farmer will make quarterly visits to prune and
maintain home orchards. All of their methods are organic
and food safe. Having a garden does not have to be time
consuming or difficult anymore - Know your farmer, with
Farmscape.
Hose Bib Irrigation Rig
Irrigation
Soil
Modular Frame
Gopher Wire
Site conditions can vary, but farmscape makes sure to po-
sition the garden for best results based on sun exposure,
grading, and drainage.
Farmscape
21. Pre-Industrial
Revolution
Present Day
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Extreme Weather
Rise in Sea Level
Melting of Glaciers
Droughts
Ocean Acidification
Flooding
Number of Major Floods per Decade 1960 - 2000
United States
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
2008 Australia suffers
worst drought in 1000 years.
Hurrican Katrina’s
wrath in 2005
Coral Reefs are bleaching
The planet is heating up, and fast! Yes, the climate has
always gone through cooling & warming periods through-
out the earth’s history. But, this has always happened at a Now that carbon in the atmosphere
has rocketed past 350 ppm, we can
already see measurable impacts
happening now all around us.
global temperature
change of 0.05-0.005°c
every 100 years or
more. In the last 50
years the earth’s tem-
perature has increased
by 0.5°c.
This rapid heat up is due
to The Greenhouse Effect.
This is when CO2 and other
greenhouse gases trap heat
from the sun in the Earth’s
atmosphere.
A Changing Climate
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0.6
0.4
0.2
0
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-0.4
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Global average temperature change from 1850
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Carbon in the atmosphere is measured by Ppm (parts per
million) and there is threshold for how much carbon the
atmosphere can handle before we begin to see the effects
of climate change, 350.
22. 350.org is building a global climate movement. Their on-
line campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public ac-
tions are coordinated by a global network active in over 188
countries.
350.org was founded by a group of university friends in the
U.S. along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the
first books on global warming for the general public.
When 350.org started organizing in 2008, they saw climate
change as the most important issue facing humanit. They
didn’t know how to fix things, but that one of the missing
ingredients was a movement to reflect on the climate crisis.
350.org started organizing coordinated days of action that
linked activists and organizations around the world, includ-
ing the International Day of Climate Action in 2009, the
Global Work Party in 2010, Moving Planet in 2011, and Cli-
mate Impacts Day in 2012. They held the “world’s biggest
art installation” and “the most widespread day of political
action in the planet’s history.” If there was going to be a
movement, they had to start acting.
Today, 350.org works in almost every country in the world
on campaigns fighting coal power plants in India, stopping
the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S, and divesting public
institutions everywhere from fossil fuels. All of their work
leverages the power of people to dismantle the influence
and infrastructure of the fossil fuel industry, and to develop
people-centric solutions to the climate crisis.
350.org
23.
24. Process
Natural Forces:
- geological uplift and erosion of mountains
- hydrological cycle and forces of water that are
continually shaping the land
- succession of woodlands
- phases of inhabitation
City Forces:
- economic, political, demographic and social change
- urban decay and renewal
- new building, replace, and adaptive reuse
Economy of Means
- the principle of least effort
- maximum benefit = minimum resources and energy
Diversity
- ecological diversity (health)
- diverse urban society (choice)
Connectedness
- everything is connected to everything else
- lakes, rivers, creeks, watersheds, water mains, sewers,
roads, homes, businesses
Transparency
- we are unaware of the processes that sustain life and
contribute to the to the impoverishment of our living
environment
- make decisions visible (awareness)
Alternative Design Strategy
- urban environment shaped by technology
- goals should be social and environmental instead of
economic
- clean energy
- proper management of resources
- promotion of health and quality
Design Strategies
25. Environment - The surroundings within
which an organism interacts.
Abiotic - One of 2 primary components of
an environment, consisting of the inorganic
materials present within an environment.
Biotic - One of 2 primary components of
an environment, consisting of all materials
within an environment that are biological in
origin.
Biome - A division of the biotic environ-
ment that is a large scale, broad region of
similar temperature, rainfall, and biology.
Environmental Zone/Ecozone - A division
of the biotic environment that is a geo-
graphic area defined by fairly specific biotic
communities within biomes.
Ecotone - Both the geographic intersection
of, and the transition between ecozones.
Refugia - A remnant of a past biome or
ecozone that survives into the present as a
living fossil.
Ecosystem - A geographically bounded
system within which a defined group of or-
ganisms interact with both the abiotic and
Biosphere - The Largest ecosystem current-
ly defined the global environment and all of
its interacting ecosystems.
Symbiotic - Close, prolonged relationship
between two or more entities that may, but
does not necessarily, benefit each other.
Biomass - The quantity of living matter
within a specified area at a specific time.
“Productivity”
Biodiversity - The number and distribution
of species present in an ecosystem. “Com-
plexity”
Succession - Orderly process of change in
an ecosystem brought about by the pro-
gressive replacement of one community by
another until stability is established.
Niche - The role a species plays within its
environment, community, or ecosystem.
What it eats, how it reproduces, and what it
does.
Habitat - The geographic location where a
species lives and operates.
Resource - Something that is actually used
by an organism.
Tether - The up most extent of limit of abili-
ty or resources.
Carrying Capacity - A measure of the
maximum number of individuals of a spe-
cies that can be supported within a specific
ecosystem for a specific period of time.
Liebig’s Law of the Minimum - The princi-
ple of a limiting resources.
Boom and Bust Cycles - The highs and
lows in which carrying capacity tend to fluc-
tuate due to a wide number of reasons.
Trophic Pyramid - Levels of relationship
among producers, heterotrophs, and de-
composers. What is eaten and how many
conversions from solar energy have taken
place.
Food Chain - A hierarchy of organisms that
consumer other organisms.
Herbivore - An animal that consumes
mostly plants.
Carnivore - An animal that primarily con-
sumes other animals.
Mutualism - When species develop mutual-
ly beneficial.
Key Terms