Toward an urban ecology / Kate Orff, SCAPE.
Editor: New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2016]Descripción: 272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cmTipo de contenido:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781580934367
- Urban landscape architecture -- United States
- Urban landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects
- City planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States
- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States
- Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- United States
- Urbanization -- Environmental aspects -- United States
- Sustainable development -- United States
- Human ecology
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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- SB472.7 .O74 2016
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A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustainable, and community-oriented spaces
Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes.
Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology.
In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.
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Kate Orff'sactivist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, communities, and scholars worldwide. Since founding the New York-based landscape architecture and urban design firm SCAPE, Kate has advanced projects of all scales, including: award-winning, harbor-wide planning efforts in New York; the innovative oyster project Living Breakwaters; and pilot ecological investigations in Gowanus Bay.
She is also a Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the Urban Design program. Kate was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017, as the first landscape architect in the Foundation's history to be honored with the award. Kate's work bridges design, science, and community participation to redefine the role of the landscape architect in the age of climate change. She is coauthor, with Richard Misrach, of Petrochemical America(2012) and coeditor and author of the book Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park(2011). She lives in Forest Hills, New York.