The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology : Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities / J. Morgan Grove, Mary L. Cadenasso, Steward T. A. Pickett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grove, J. Morgan, Author.

Cadenasso, Mary L., Author.

Pickett, Steward T. A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Maryland--Baltimore.

Sociology, Urban--Maryland--Baltimore.

Sociology, Urban.

Maryland--Baltimore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The first "urban century" in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more. This important book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity that will apply in many different parts of the world. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on how to study, build, and manage cities in innovative and sustainable ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Ogden, Laura A.

Preface

Acknowledgments

One. The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Two. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Intellectual Challenges in the Ecology of Cities

Three. Expanding the Landscape: Applying Patch Dynamics to Social-Ecological Systems

Four. From Baltimore to Bangkok: Interdisciplinary Issues and Strategies

Five. Pixels, Plots, and Parcels: Data Issues and Strategies

Six. Cholera in London and Urban Tree Canopy in Baltimore: Linking Science and Decision Making Through Patch Dynamics

Seven. Metacities and an Urban Land Ethic

Notes

Further Readings

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21786-2

OCLC:

922581609