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What does it mean for urban life to see livestock grazing in post-industrial American cities?
2023 •
Geoffrey Thun
Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems
ALI ALSHAHIBI
"Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems advances an important idea about the relevance of systems thinking to design at the community and urban scale. Scaling up is a critical aspect to how we all need to be thinking; this book is an excellent guidepost."-William McDonough, William McDonough + Partners "Perhaps just in time, Newman and Jennings provide us with all the theory and practice we need to salvage urban civilization. Their excellent book is now the best available guide to the reinvention of cities as sustainable regional ecosystems, human settlements that thrive on much-reduced eco-footprints."-William E. Rees, professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia CITIES AS SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature's organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies and drawing from examples from all corners of the world, Newman and Jennings reassess urban design by exploring flows of energy, materials, and information, along with the interactions between human and nonhuman parts of the system. A powerful model for urban redevelopment, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems describes aspects of urban ecosystems from the visioning process to achieving economic security to fostering a sense of place.
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Journal of Environmental Studies
Citizen Participation Pedagogy
2020 •
Mannisi Alban, Bjorn Low, Manoel Rodrigues Alves, Camila Moreno de Camargo, Apolonija Sustersic, macarena gross
Once again, the civil society participation in the management and planning of its territory has become a sine qua nun preliminary condition for the Built Environment expertise. Albeit extremely active, the numbers of stakeholders in the revitalization of communities and the management of their resilience are exploding without being able to generate overviews that would facilitate cohesion and efficiency. The foundations of this movement are often overlooked to keep the attractiveness of the vitalist impulse, and the lessons learnt are still poorly analysed and shared within a new generation of Community Designer. The experts’ “return to the city” dynamic to better understand the social capital challenges and aspirations must be accompanied now, after a decade of all-out communication, by an effort of transmission. Based on their involvement in citizen participation initiatives, contributors are invited to formulate lessons that are useful for the future, to expose the teaching of the current, or to draw up a critical and muddled inventory to avoid, which can lead to generate a pedagogical opening. Embodying the "Globalization from the Gassrroots" phenomenon, the contributions of this special edition dedicated to Citizen Participation Pedagogy, testify to the desire of worldwide civil societies to be involved in the management of their common good. The exemplar approaches of 10 different countries over 4 continents: Australia, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Brazil provide an understanding of the peculiarities and similarities of the diverse cultural landscape. People from different spheres; landscape architect and urbanist, architect, artist, entrepreneur, and community designer among many others, represent the diversity and richness of experts who have the voice of citizens resonate in public debate. Citizen Participation Pedagogy proposes an intellectual geography to envision the genuine mechanisms’ resilience of human and non-human cohesion, offering tools that are currently rediscovered, reinvented, and reimagined. Journal of Environmental Studies Seoul National University Citizen Participation Pedagogy Guest editor: Alban MANNISI, Landscape Urbanist (RMIT Landscape Architecture, Australia)
Clearing stock of the invisible: effects of cosmopolitan power on the supply of affordable housing
Kane Pham
Spatio-temporal imbalances in the pace of globalized competition and development have resulted in a demanding requirement for affordable housing in Australia’s undersupplied and entrenched communities further segregated from their more able neighbors. Neoliberal governance and planning policies exerts an even higher burden on non-governmental actors in remediating the discord in supply and demand with developers commanding a dominant position to negotiate more lucrative arrangements, reducing or negating their requirements in delivering target ratios of affordable housing in new developments. Through an examination of the spatial extents of the Barangaroo precinct development in its privileged position on the waterfront in Sydney and its submitted documentation, this paper finds an increasing chasm for the urban poor attempting to integrate into Sydney Global City, arguing for a re-evaluation of housing policy to shift the local condition from exclusive enclaves to cohesive social landscapes in an increasingly image-driven cosmopolitan machine.
What does it take to feed a city? Foodprint Melbourne 2 3
Seona Candy
The Foodprint Melbourne project has investigated what it takes to feed Melbourne. We have estimated how much land, water and energy are required, as well as the food waste and GHG emissions generated.
Bilgiç, E. Ç., ve Kavas, A. (2018). Evaluating The Ghetto Term Through Turkey. (M. Elkaftangui, Ed.) AMPS Proceedings Series 13. Constructing an Urban Future,. Abu Dhabi University, UAE. 18-19 March (2018). s.[7-21] (ISSN: 2398-9467).
Evaluating The Ghetto Term Through Turkey
2018 •
Asmin Kavas
The practice of socio-cultural, social exclusion and residential segregation brings a heterogeneous identity to cities in the multidimensional and complex structure of urban culture. This heterogeneous appearance of the cities, which contains ethnic, religious convergence, cultural and denominational uniformities, are surrounded by hom*ogeneous network of relationships, which also manifest themselves in the form of spatial relationships in urban areas called ghettos. Until the 1980s, the concept of ghetto was rather an outcome of ethnic, religious, denominational, and cultural discrimination; however, with the 1980s, ghetto term has also been used for parts of the cities, which have deprived infrastructures, lack of social facilities and socio-economically poor groups. With the 2000s, closed-societies/ gated communities, which are spatial parts of consumer culture, have come to be known as modern or rich ghettos. After 2010 along with the wars especially in Middle East, ghettoes who emigrated to secure their lives in other lands caught the attention. Hence, after the 1980s ghetto with the using outside of its real meaning has begun to lose its characteristic to be an instrument of ethnic, religious, denominational or cultural discrimination and become to be a classificatory exclusionary instrument. Within the scope of this study, the process of ghettoization has been selected from Turkey. The way in which the concept will be argued in five case studies and three different periods: 1940-1960 (Jewish Ghetto of Balat); 1960-1980 (Roman Ghetto of Sulukule and Denominational Ghetto of Gazi Neighborhood); and post-1980 (‘Gated Communities of Mavişehir Neighborhood and Post-War Ghetto of Önder Neighborhood). Variety of examples on ghettos through Turkey will be evaluated on the keywords, which form the basis of the ghetto term, and these cases carry the ghetto characteristic or not will be researched.
The Importance of Greenery in Sustainable Buildings
Urban Vegetation and Microclimatic Comfort in Warm Climates
2021 •
Manuel Correia Guedes
Since the beginning of civilisation, good and healthy places have been inevitably linked to spaces containing different forms and variations of greenery. This led to the fictional concept and the incessant search of “paradise”. Depictions of man-made paradise have been recorded throughout history by architectural visionaries. In the lack of such a perfect place in reality, paradise was sought in paintings, literature, and music. In all the artistic forms it is always linked to nature. It is part of our well-being to be connected to vegetation, with the environment. An environmental friendly architecture relieves us from stress, arouses our senses, attenuates the thermal environment, and gives a notion of peace, of paradise. The partnership with trees creates spaces we long to inhabit and share. We perceive not only visually, but also acoustically, aromatically, emotionally, and especially thermally. By controlling the environment around us we can tempt our senses. Architecture, as other arts, can enliven our experiences with the surrounding environment and provide pleasant moments and emotions. Trees have always been a part of civilisation as a source of shelter, food, medicine, and clothing. Its contribution to architecture by defining, modifying, and improving the environment is not well recognised. This work attempts to diminish this dent by portraying the benefits of tree microclimates in popular urban settlements by improving the outdoor thermal conditions around the house, and consequently improving life quality. Trees also modify behaviour and expectations, and create a range of experiences to our advantage.
City, Territory and Architecture
The development of habitable urban skyways: claiming interstitial territories through evolutionary processes
Liam Blewett
Urban skyways, in which an elevated pedestrian-friendly layer of the city is applied to the existing urban fabric, have evolved from radical conceptual proposals in the mid-twentieth century, such as the continuous monument by SuperStudio, to increasingly realised proposals over the last 30 years, such as the highline project in Manhattan. Developed as either networks that respond to harsh climatic conditions, or solutions that aim to reclaim part of the city for pedestrian use, their use has been additive rather than integrative, in most cases culminating in elevated walkways. This article proposes an alternative approach to the utilisation of urban skyways within existing cities, in which the question of habitation is a primary driver. The research involved the application of sequential evolutionary simulations, to locations in the city of Paris, as an algorithmic approach to achieve multiple conflicting objectives. The results demonstrate the value of urban skyways as habitable s...
Sustainability of Irrigating Wheat under Climate Change Scenarios in a Humid Climate—A Study in the East of England
Daniel El Chami
Climate change is ‘the challenge’ of our times and for the next decades. The biggest impacts are likely to affect the sustainability of agricultural and food systems, both highly vulnerable to continuously changing climatic patterns. Wheat is a strategic crop for food security. It is widely grown worldwide as a rainfed (unirrigated) crop, but the latest research showed that recent world wheat price increases and increasing weather variability is making supplemental irrigation marginally profitable. The proposed study combines the outputs from a general circulation model (GCM), the FAO crop growth model (AquaCrop) and economic modelling to assess the sustainability of irrigated wheat production compared to rainfed, under current climate conditions, and in the future under different climate scenarios. AquaCrop model have been calibrated and validated for winter wheat grown on a sandy loam soil in the east of England (Bedfordshire). Long‐term observed climate data (1970‐1996) in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) were used to validate the projected climate data from the GCM. The structural characteristics of the case study are representative of a typical farm of the area, and irrigation costs and the wheat prices for the economic model were calculated assuming current market prices, and sensitivity analysis will assess, in the longer term, the expected variations due to the increase in world wheat prices and the energy costs involved. Results will quantify simulated wheat yields (t ha‐1) and irrigation water requirements (m3 ha‐1) for the baseline and the selected climate change scenarios for both rainfed and irrigated practices. They will also elicit the trade‐offs between different options, according to the sustainability triangle: i) the yield benefits (£ ha‐1), ii) the added value of water (£ m‐3), iii) the global warming potential due to irrigation, and iv) the labour requirements. Covering the three pillars of sustainability, these results would offer a complete and integrated tool for decision makers for the adoption of future sustainable policies.
