Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach intro…
Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach intro…
Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach intro…
Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach intro…
Over half of the worlds population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach introd…
Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach intro…
This book sets the stage for understanding how the exponential escalation of digital ubiquity in the contemporary environment is being absorbed, modulated, processed and actively used for enhancing the performance of our built environment. S.M.A.R.T., in this context, is thus us…
Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement. Integration of multi-functional forms of agriculture termed New Forms of Urban Agriculture (NFUA) could be a critical adaptation to strengthen this movement and for the sustainability of …
"City plants grow spontaneously in sidewalk cracks surrounded by buildings and streets. Small invertebrates reside in walled courtyards. How do members of apparently isolated urban populations find mates? How do they avoid inbreeding? Plants and animals that inhabit cities are o…
"City plants grow spontaneously in sidewalk cracks surrounded by buildings and streets. Small invertebrates reside in walled courtyards. How do members of apparently isolated urban populations find mates? How do they avoid inbreeding? Plants and animals that inhabit cities are o…
"City plants grow spontaneously in sidewalk cracks surrounded by buildings and streets. Small invertebrates reside in walled courtyards. How do members of apparently isolated urban populations find mates? How do they avoid inbreeding? Plants and animals that inhabit cities are o…
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire's enshrinement as the natio…
"Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a moral imperative; instead,…
"Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. As urban life is reimagine…