Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pickett, S.T.A (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cadenasso, M.L (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McGrath, Brian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Future City, 3
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; Ecosystems.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape Architecture.

The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative ur...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Ecology of the City as a Bridge to Urban Design
• 2. Three Tides: The Development and State of the Art of Urban Ecological Science
• 3. Social Dynamics and Sustainable Urban Design
• 4. Integral Urbanism: A Context for Urban Design
• 5. Landscape as Method and Medium for the Ecological Design of Cities
• 6. Ecological Heterogeneity in Urban Ecosystems: Reconceptualized Land Cover Models as a Bridge to Urban Design
• 7. Urban Patch Dynamics and Resilience: Three London Urban Design Ecologies
• 8. Eco-engineering for Water: From Soft to Hard & Back
• 9. Beyond Restoration and into Design: Hydrologic Alterations in Aridland Cities
• 10. Ecological Resilience as a Foundation for Urban Design and Sustainability
• 11. Slow, Moderate, Fast: Urban Adaptation and Change
• 12. Anchoring a Terrain: Landscapes beyond Urbanism
• 13. Storyline and Design: How Civic Stewardship Shapes Urban Design in New York City
• 14. Eco-cities without Ecology: Constructing Ideologies, Valuing Nature
• 15. Sponge City
• 16. Civic Space in Regional Frameworks: Resilient Approaches to Urban Design
• 17. Aesthetic Resilience
• 18. Anchoring Philadelphia
• 19. Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park Treatment Wetland: Integrated Strategies in Natural Treatment System Design
• 20. Just Ground: A Social Infrastructure for Urban Landscape Regeneration
• 21. Ecological and Social Linkages in Urban Design Projects: A Synthesis
• 22. The Design Process as a Framework for Collaboration between Ecologists and Designers
• 23. Remixing Messages: A Call for Collaboration between Artists and Scientists
• 24. Landscape Urbanism: A North American Perspective
• 25. Urbanism and Ecological Rationality
• 26. Bangkok: The Ecology and Design of an Aqua-City
• 27. Disturbanism in the South Pacific: Disturbance Ecology as a Basis for Urban Resilience in Small Island States
• 28. The Ecology of the Metacity: Shaping the Dynamic, Patchy, Networked, and Adaptive Cities of the Future.  .