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Urban Ecology : An Introduction seeks to open the reader’s mind and eyes to the way in which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for, and managed in order to make our towns and cities healthier places to visit and in which to live and work. The authors examine how nature can improve our physical and mental health, the air we breathe and the waters we use, as well as boosting our enjoyment of parks and gardens. Urban Ecology sets out the science that underlies the changing natural scene and the tools used to ensure that cities become both capable of adapting to climate change and more beautiful and resilient.The book begins with a discussion of the nature of urban places and the role of nature in towns and cities. Part 1 looks at the context and content of urban ecology, its relationship to other foci of interest within ecology and other environmental sciences, and the character of city landscapes and ecosystems. In Part 2 the authors set out the physical and chemical components of urban ecosystems and ecological processes, including urban weather and climate, urban geomorphology and soils, urban hydrology and urban biogeochemical cycles. In Part 3 urban habitats, urban flora and fauna, and the effects of, deliberate and inadvertent human action on urban biota are examined. Part 4 contains an exploration of the identification and assessment of ecosystem services in urban areas, emphasising economic evaluation, the importance of urban nature for human health and well-being, and restoration ecology and creative conservation. Finally, in Part 5 the tasks for urban ecologists in optimising and sustaining urban ecosystems, providing for nature in cities, adapting to climate change and in developing the urban future in a more sustainable manner are set out.Within the 16 chapters of the book – in which examples from around the world are drawn upon - the authors explore current practice and future alternatives, set out procedures for ecological assessment and evaluation, suggest student activities and discussion topics, provide recommended reading and an extensive bibliography. The book contains more than 150 tables and over 150 photographs and diagrams.

urban development --- ecology --- human ecology --- Environmental planning --- sustainable development --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Landschapsecologie --- Natuur ; steden --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning --- Sustainable development --- Écologie urbaine. --- Urbanisme durable. --- Développement durable. --- Environmental aspects --- Écologie urbaine. --- Développement durable.

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Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge - ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of these patterns goes beyond just their visual appreciation - beautiful though they may be - into a richer understanding of how we experience our environment. By understanding this complex pattern-process interaction we can obtain a deeper awareness of landscape and our place in it - as inhabitants and as shapers. The book explores the nature of patterns and ways of classifying them before studying the nature of perception (primarily visual but including other senses), then proceeds to relate this perception to aesthetics and from there to the design process. From this point the main driving processes in landscape are introduced alongside the resulting patterns, these being climatic, landform, ecosystem and cultural aspects. It is this integrative approach of looking at landscape as a kind of self-organising system, overlaid by conscious human planning activities and the unity of pattern and process, which makes this book unique. Landscape draws from a wide range of neighbouring disciplines, of which the landscape planner or designer needs to be aware, but which are often taught as distinct elements. Bell binds these fundamentals together, which enables the landscape to be 'read', and this reading to be used as the basis for planning and design.

Ecological landscape design. --- Landscape assessment. --- Regional planning --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Paysages --- Aménagement du territoire --- Environmental aspects. --- Evaluation --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Écologie du paysage --- Paysage --- Perception géographique --- Protection --- Philosophie --- Aspect environnemental --- Landschapsanalyse --- Landschapszorg --- Aménagement paysager écologique --- Aménagement du territoire --- Philosophie. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique. --- Protection. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Perception géographique.

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Les études rassemblées dans ce volume abordent les divers aspects qu'a revêtus au cours de l'histoire la représentation du paysage, et les multiples questions qu'elle pose dans les domaines de la littérature, des arts et des sciences humaines. Par delà la diversité de leurs objets et de leurs compétences, littéraires, historiens de l'art et de la société, ethnologues, géographes, philosophes convergent vers une même interrogation: sommes-nous encore capables de donner un sens au monde dans lequel nous vivons? L'enquête menée ici montre l'extraordinaire potentiel symbolique dont est porteuse la relation de l'homme avec le paysage. Nul doute qu'elle ne demeure aujourd'hui encore une source de réflexion et de création. Une meilleure connaissance de son histoire et de ses enjeux ne peut qu'aider à mieux comprendre sa place dans la société et ses expressions contemporaines.

Art --- Countryside --- Environnement --- Filosofie --- Kunst --- Landscape in art --- Landscape in literature --- Landscapes --- Landscapes in art --- Landscapes in literature --- Landschap --- Landschap in de kunst --- Landschap in de literatuur --- Landschappen --- Landschappen in de kunst --- Landschappen in de literatuur --- Menswetenschappen --- Milieu --- Natural scenery --- Paysage --- Paysage dans l'art --- Paysage dans la littérature --- Paysages --- Paysages dans l'art --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Paysages naturels --- Philosophie --- Scenery --- Scenic beauty --- Scenic landscapes --- Sciences humaines --- Vedute --- Veduteschilders --- Vedutismo --- Paysage (thème) --- Landschappen cultuurfilosofie --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Écologie humaine --- Histoire --- Dans l'art --- Dans la littérature --- Landschappen ; cultuurfilosofie --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire. --- Dans l'art. --- Dans la littérature. --- Écologie humaine. --- Dans la littérature. --- Congresses. --- Écologie humaine

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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 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.

Urban landscape architecture --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- Sustainable development --- Human ecology --- Nature --- Paysage urbain --- Urbanisme --- Villes --- Urbanisation --- Développement durable --- Écologie humaine --- Environmental aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Aspect environnemental --- Effets de l'homme --- Human ecology. --- Environmental aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- 712.25 --- Duurzame landschapsarchitectuur ; 21ste eeuw --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Stadsecologie --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Landscape architecture --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur ; vormgeving openbare groenvoorziening --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Government policy --- Management --- Landschapsecologie --- Ecologie; ecosysteem --- Aspect environnemental. --- Écosystème urbain --- Urbanisme durable --- Développement durable --- Écologie humaine

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Hoe ziet de ideale stad eruit binnen tien jaar?Hoe slim zijn onze Vlaamse en Nederlandse steden vandaag al?Moeten we bang zijn voor de stad van de toekomst?Wat enkele decennia geleden nog sciencefiction leek, is vandaag werkelijkheid. Slimme horloges en camera's, sensornetwerken en drones vinden stilaan hun plaats in het alledaagse leven. Ze gebruiken de kracht van ICT om onze mobiliteit, energievoorziening, stadsbeleving en veiligheid grondig te verbeteren.Maar zijn die vernieuwingen alleen maar positief? Hoe kunnen we steden leefbaar houden nu ze groter en moeilijker te beheersen worden dan ooit tevoren? Hoe weeg je pakweg de nood aan veiligheid af tegenover die aan privacy? Dit boek beschrijft hoe technologie ingrijpt in ons stadsbeeld, wat daarbij verkeerd kan gaan, en wat we kunnen doen om horrorscenario's te voorkomen.Smart cities toont aan dat we een balans moeten vinden tussen de mogelijkheden en valkuilen die technologie met zich meebrengt, en welke modellen we het best volgen. Daarbij biedt het een multidisciplinaire insiderskijk op de ontwikkelingen die op ons afkomen, van architectuur tot dagelijks leven, mobiele applicaties en slim stadsbeleid.

Cities --- Urbanism --- Technologie --- Steden --- Planning --- Steden. --- Toekomst. --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Sociology of environment --- Computer. Automation --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Technologie en maatschappij --- Change cultuur verandering innovatie informatie communicatie technologie --- 625.712 --- technologie in de stad --- stadsbeleid --- 587 Stedenbeleid --- stedenbouw --- bouwkunde --- Stedelijkheid --- Sociaal werk --- stedelijke wegen --- Environmental planning --- Stedenbouw 711.6 --- Smart cities --- Technologische innovatie --- Innovation Innovatie --- Technologie Technologie --- PXL-Central Office 2016 --- communicatie --- communicatiemiddelen --- maatschappelijke veranderingen --- technologische innovatie --- technologie --- slimme stad --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Stedenbouw --- Bouwkunde --- 316 --- BPB1605 --- 711.4(A) --- Duurzame architectuur en stedenbouw ; 21ste eeuw --- Ecologische stedenbouw --- Développement durable --- Mondiale netwerk stedenbouw --- Slimme steden ; 21ste eeuw --- Smart city --- Stedelijke planning ; gebaseerd op slimme technologiën --- Architecture --- Urbanisme et construction --- Écologie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; denken over de stedenbouw --- Architectuur --- Ecologie --- Maatschappij --- Privacy --- Privacybescherming --- ICT --- Innovatie --- 711.4 --- 007.5 --- 67.002 --- stad --- informatica - cybernetica - Internet - Sociale media (zie ook 681.3) --- nieuwe technologieën - technologische vernieuwing --- ekologji --- екологија --- ekologie --- ekológia --- ekoloġija --- ökológia --- økologi --- ecología --- ekologija --- ökoloogia --- Ökologie --- екология --- ekoloģija --- ecology --- ekologi --- οικολογία --- ecologia --- ekologia --- ecologie --- környezettudomány --- наука за животната средина --- znanost o okolišu --- teorie životního prostředí --- ciencia del medio ambiente --- επιστήμες του περιβάλλοντος --- ympäristötiede --- ηθολογία --- milieuwetenschap --- scienze dell'ambiente --- věda o životním prostředí --- vides zinātne --- environmentální vědy --- ciência do ambiente --- environmental science --- environmentálna veda --- Umweltwissenschaft --- ekologické vědy --- știința mediului înconjurător --- aplinkotyra --- miljøvidenskab --- nauka o životním prostředí --- keskkonnateadus --- shkenca mjedisore --- architectuur --- архитектура --- architektura --- arkitektur --- architettura --- architektūra --- Architektur --- architektúra --- αρχιτεκτονική --- arquitetura --- arkitektura --- arkitettura --- építészet --- arhitektuur --- architecture --- arhitectură --- arhitektūra --- arhitektura --- arquitectura --- arkkitehtuuri --- architettura civile --- Baukunst --- építőművészet --- ehituskunst --- disegno architettonico --- architettura militare --- darnus vystymasis --- fenntartható fejlődés --- održivi razvoj --- дълготрайно развитие --- varig udvikling --- одржлив развој --- żvilupp sostenibbli --- trvalo udržateľný rozvoj --- säästev areng --- hållbar utveckling --- zhvillim i qëndrueshëm --- одрживи развој --- sustainable development --- kestävä kehitys --- desenvolvimento sustentável --- trvale udržitelný rozvoj --- αειφόρος ανάπτυξη --- dauerhafte Entwicklung --- dezvoltare durabilă --- sviluppo sostenibile --- ekorozwój --- ilgtspējīga attīstība --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- desarrollo sostenible --- trajnostni razvoj --- bioekonomie --- bioekonómia --- développement soutenable --- bioenergetyka --- ekorazvoj --- développement viable --- trvalý rozvoj --- tvarioji plėtra --- bæredygtig udvikling --- ekološko utemeljeni razvoj --- økologisk udvikling --- οικοανάπτυξη --- udržateľný rozvoj --- bioøkonomi --- bioeconomía --- sviluppo praticabile --- desenvolvimento sustentado --- desenvolvimento durável --- bioéconomie --- ecodesenvolvimento --- ecodesarrollo --- bioekonomija --- bio-economie --- eco-ontwikkeling --- ökológiai fejlődés --- βιοοικονομία --- биоекономија --- rozvoj udržitelný --- nachhaltige Entwicklung --- eco-development --- umweltgerechte Entwicklung --- βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη --- jätkusuutlik areng --- ekologicky uvědomělý rozvoj --- sviluppo durevole --- ökologische Entwicklung --- ecosviluppo --- bio-ekonomiska attīstība --- ekologinė plėtra --- bio-economy --- bioeconomia --- bioökonoomia --- ekozhvillim --- bioekonomia --- écodéveloppement --- bioekonomi --- bioekonomika --- uthållig utveckling --- Biowirtschaft --- еколошки развој --- zrównoważony rozwój --- biogazdaság --- bioeconomy --- σταθερή και διαρκής ανάπτυξη --- desenvolvimento viável --- zukunftsfähige Entwicklung --- desarrollo duradero --- Stadsleven --- éiceolaíocht --- ailtireacht --- forbairt inbhuanaithe --- 681.3 --- 681.3 Computer science --- 681.3 Computerwetenschap --- Computer science --- Computerwetenschap --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Écologie --- Développement durable