Main entry:

Orff, Kate, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Toward an urban ecology / Kate Orff, SCAPE.

Publication:

New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2016]

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Revive : Practice: Town Branch Commons, Lexington, Kentucky ; Strategies : Water harvesting sidewalk: Glen Oaks Branch Library, Queens, New York ; Green roof: Milstein Hall, Ithaca, New York ; Absorptive street: Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus streetscape, Buffalo, New York ; Water plaza: First Avenue Plaza, New York, New York ; Working landscape: Be'er Sheva Quarry, Negev Region, Israel ; Connective ground: water works, Minneapolis, Minnesota ; Urban manager: interview with Mayor Jim Gray ; Watershed steward: interview with Hans Hesselein ; Making rocks public / Jane Hutton -- Cohabit : Practice : Oyster-tecture, New York Harbor, New York ; Strategies : Urban flyway: bird-safe building guidelines ; Artificial habitat: osprey nest structures, Brooklyn, New York ; Shifting baselines: field guide to the flowers that are still here ; Forestation: Blue Wall Center, Cleveland, South Carolina ; Adaptive management: cove co-habitat, Sag Harbor, New York ; Citizen scientist: interview with Bart Chezar ; Aquaculture teacher: interview with Pete Malinowski ; Urban ecological design as feminist practice / Thaïsa Way -- Engage : Practice : Safari 7, New York, New York ; Strategies : Park raising : 103rd Street Community Garden, New York, New York ; Intergenerational space: Blake Hobbs Park, New York, New York ; Free play zone: PAVE Academy, Brooklyn, New York ; Urban hydrology: Town Branch Water Walk, Lexington, Kentucky ; Research incubator: interview with Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, and Kate Orff ; Social infrastructure advocate: interview with Eric Klinenberg ; Infrastructure inside out / Emily Eliza Scott -- Scale : Strategies : Community pilot: Fuzzy rope weaving evening, New York, New York ; Novel ecosystems: Sims Habitat Pilot Pier, Brooklyn, New York ; Consensus building: New York Rising Community Planning, Brooklyn and Queens, New York ; The layered approach: SIRR Coastal Protection Plan, New York, New York ; In situ study: Great Kills Breakwater feasibility study, Staten Island, New York ; Ecological infrastructure: The Shallows: regional strategy, New York and New Jersey ; Bay nourishment, Brooklyn and Queens, New York ; Hydrodynamic modeler: interview with Philip Orton ; Urban diver: interview with Ido Sella ; Public sediment / Brian Davis ; Practice: Living Breakwaters, Staten Island, New York.

Summary:

Kate Orff 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 an urban ecology. 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.

ISBN:

9781580934367
1580934366

Subject:

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.
Sustainable development United States.
Human ecology.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Paysage urbain États-Unis.
Paysage urbain Aspect de l'environnement.
Écologie urbaine États-Unis.
Urbanisation Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Développement durable États-Unis.
Écologie humaine.
Homme Influence sur la nature.
human ecology.
ARCHITECTURE Individual Architects & Firms Monographs.
ARCHITECTURE Landscape.
ARCHITECTURE Sustainability & Green Design.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban landscape architecture.
Urbanization Environmental aspects.
Stadtökologie
Stadtplanung
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293737
Call No.: BIB 238900
Status: External loan