TY - BOOK AU - Mostafavi,Mohsen AU - Doherty,Gareth ED - Harvard University. TI - Ecological urbanism SN - 9783037781890 AV - HT241 E374 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Germany PB - Lars Muller Publishers KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Local KW - Sustainable development KW - Environmental degradation KW - City planning N1 - Index; Contents : Why Ecological Urbanism ? Why Now ? Mohsen Mostafavi -- Anticipate -- 56 Advancement versus Apocalypse Rem Koolhaas -- 72 Zeekracht OMA -- 78 Mumbai On My Mind : Some Thoughts on Sustainability Homi K Bhabha -- 84 Urban Earth: Mumbai Daniel Raven - Ellison and Kye Ashkins -- 94 Notes on the Third Ecology Sanford Kwinter -- 106 Social Inequality and Climate Change Ulrich Beck -- 110 For a Post - Environmentalism : Seven Suggestions for New Athens Charter and The Weak Metropolis Andrea Branzi -- 114 Weak Work : Andrea Branzi ’ s “ Weak Metropolis ” and the Projective Potential of an “ Ecological Urbanism ” Charles Waldheim -- 122 From “ Sustain ” to “ Ability ” JDS Architects -- 124 Fort Years Later — Back to a Sub - lunar Earth Bruno Latour -- Collaborate -- 130 Art Fieldwork Biuliana Bruno -- 132 Ecological Urbanism and / as Urban Metaphor Lawrence Bueli -- 134 Black and White in Green Cities Lizabeth Cohen -- 136 The Return of Nature Preston Scott Cohen and Erika Naginski -- 138 Urban Ecological Practices: Felix Guattari ’ s Three Ecologies Verena Andermatt Conley -- 140 Retrofitting the City Leland D Cott -- 142 Productive Urban Environments Margaret Crawford -- Sense -- 146 The City from the Perspective of the Nose Sissel Tolaas -- 156 Urban Earth: Mexico City Daniel Raven Ellison -- 164 CitySense : An Urban Scale Sensor Network Matt Welsh and Josh Bers -- 166 Eat Love Marije Vogelzang -- 168 Self-Engineering Ecologies Christine Outram, Assaf Biderman and Carlo Ratti -- 174 There’s More to Green than Meets the Eye: Green Urbanism in Bahrain Gareth Doherty -- 184 Play Me, I’m Yours Luke Jerram -- 186 Mapping Main Street Jesse Shapins, Kara Oehler, Ann Heppermann and James Burns Curate -- 190 Curating Resources Niall Kirkwood -- 194 The Sea and Monsoon Within: A Mumbai Manifesto Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha -- 208 Transcendent Eco cities or Urban Ecological Security ? Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin -- 218 New Waterscapes fro Singapore Herbert Dreiseitl -- 222 To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond Zhang Huan -- 224 Envisioning Ecological Cities Mitchel Joachim -- 252 Wave Farm Pelamis Wave Power Ltd -- 254 CR Land Guanganmen Green Technology Showroom Vector Architects -- 256 Aux Fermes, Citoyens ! Dorothee Imbert -- 268 Local River: Home Storage Unit for Fish and Greens Mathieu Lehanneur with Anthony van den Bossche -- 270 Soft Cities KVA MATx -- 274 The ZEDFactory Bill Dunster -- 280 Logroño Eco city MVRDV -- 282 The Big Foot Revolution Kongjian Yu -- 292 La Tour Vivante , Eco tower Soa Architectes -- COLLABORATE -- 296 Management Challenges in Urban Transformation : Organizing to Learn Amy C . Edmonson -- 298 Air Purification in Cities David Edwards -- 300 Social Justice and Ecological City Gerald E Frug -- 304 Underground Future Peter Galison -- 306 Temperate and Bounded Edward Glaeser -- 308 Bioinspired Adaptive Architecture and Sustainability Donald E Ingber -- INTERACT -- 312 Urban Ecology and the Arrangement of Nature in Urban Regions Richard T T Forman -- 324 The Agency of Ecology Chris Reed -- 330 New York City Infrastructure Christoph Niemann -- 332 Redefining Infrastructure Pierre Belanger -- 350 User Generated Urbanism Rebar -- 356 Situating Urban Ecological Experiments in Public Space Alexander J Felson and Linda Pollak -- 364 A Hollistic View of the Urban Phenomenon Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency -- 370 Gwanggyo New City Park System Yoonjin Park and Jungyoon Kim ( PARKKIM ) -- 372 A Methodology for Urban Innovation Alfonso Vegara, Mark Dwyer, and Aaron Kelley -- 374 Greenmetropolis Henri Bava, Erik Behrens , Steven Craig , and Alex Wall -- MOBILIZE -- 380 Mobility , Infrastructure , and Society Richard Sommer -- 382 Sustainable Urban Mobility through Light Electric Vehicles William J Mitchell -- 398 Sustainable Mobility in Action Federico Parolotto -- 402 Sustaining the City in the Face of Advanced Marginality Loic Wacquant -- 406 A General Theory of Sustainable Urbanism Andres Duany -- 412 The Political Ecology of Ecological Urbanism Paul Robbins -- 416 The SynCity Urban Energy System Model Niels Schulz , Nilay Shah David Fisk , James Keirstead , Nouri Samsatli , Aruna Sivakumar, Celine Weber , and Ellin Saunders -- 420 Oil City Petro landscapes and Sustainable Futures Michael Watts -- 425 Niger Delta Oil Fields Ed Kashi -- 428 The Upway Rafael Viñoly -- 430 GSD RESEARCH Nairobi Studio Jacques Studio -- MEASURE -- 444 Five Ecological Challenges for the Contemporary City Stefano Boeri -- 454 Revolutionizing Architecture Jeremy Rifkin -- 456 The Canary Project Susannah Sayler -- 458 “ Performalism ” : Environmental Metrics and Urban Design Susannah Hagan -- 468 Nature Culture Kathryn Moore -- 472 Investigating the Importance of Customized Energy Model Inputs : A Case Study of Gund Hall Holly A Wasilowksi and Christoph F Reinhart -- 476 Perception of Urban Density Vicky Cheng and Koen Steemers -- 482 London ’ s Estuary Region Sir Terry Farrell -- 488 Urban Earth : London Daniel Raven-Ellison -- 496 Sustainability Initiatives in London Camilla Ween -- 500 Moving beyond LEED : Evaluating Green at the Urban Scale Thomas Schroepfer -- 502 Landscapes of Specialization Bill Rankin -- 504 GSD RESEARCH Half a Million Trees : Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities -- Kristin Frederickson and Gary Hilderbrand -- 506 SlaveCity Atelier Van Lieshout -- 510 EcoBox / Self - Managed Eco - urban Network atelier d ’ architecture autogeree -- 512 Temporary Urban Scene : Beach on the Moon Ecosistema Urbano -- COLLABORATE -- 516 Comfort and Carbon Footprint Alex Krieger -- 518 Ecological Urbanism and Healthy Equity An Ecosocial Perspective Nancy Krieger -- 520 Nature, Infrastructures and the Ubran Condition Antoine Picon -- 522 Sustainability and Lifestyle Spiro Pollalis -- 524 Ecological Urbanism and the Landscape Martha Schwartz -- 526 Old Dark John Stilgoe -- 528 Religious Studies and Ecological Urbanism Donald K Swearer -- 530 Ecological Urbanism and East Asian Literatures Karen Thornber -- ADAPT -- 536 Insurgent Ecologies : ( Re ) claiming Ground in Landscaper and Urbanism Nina - Marie Lister -- 548 Performative Wood : Integral Computational Design for a Climate - Responsive Timber Surface Structure Achim Menges -- 554 Shrinking Gotham ’ s Footprint Laurie Kerr -- 560 Adaptivity in Architecture Hoberman Associates , Ziggy Drozdowski and Shawn Gupta -- 568 GSD Research Climate Change , Water , Land Development , and Adaptation : Planning with Uncertainty ( Almere , the Netherlands ) Armando Carbonell , Martin Zogran , and Dirk Sijmons -- INCUBATE -- 572 Balances and Challenges of Integrated Practice Toshiko Mori -- 578 The Luxury of Reduction : On the Role of Architecture in Ecological Urbanism Matthias Sauerbruch -- 584 Bank of America Cook + Fox Architects -- 588 GSD RESEARCH A Place in Heaven , A Place in Hell : Tactical Operations in Sao Paulo Christian Werthmann , Fernando de Mello Franco and Byron Stigge -- 590 In Situ : Site Specificity in Sustainable Architecture -- 598 Progetto Bioclimatico Mario Cucinella -- 600 Wangzhuang Eco - city of Agrioculture Arup -- 606 Ecosystematic Master Planning , DISEZ Region , Senegal ecoLogicStudio -- 608 Vegetal City : Dreaming the Green Utopia Luc Schuiten -- 610 Verticalism ( The Future of the Skyscraper) Iñaki Abalos -- 616 Urban Prototypes Raoul Bunschoten -- 622 Taiwan Strait Climate Change Incubator Chora Architecture and Urbanism -- 629 THE CITY Ian McHarg -- 630 ECOLOGICAL URBANISM CONFERENCE BLOG -- APPENDIX -- 642 Contributors -- 648 Acknowledgements -- 650 Index -- 654 Illustration Credits -- ER -