EcoUrbanist

Green Shelves. 

I hope it does! 

Research across a range of fields is beginning to offer useful new guidance for planning policy and practice—and pointing the way to more effective "bottom-up" strategies. The urbanist Jane Jacobs was famous for her withering 1961 criticism of modern urban planning: it was, she said, a "pseudoscience" that was "almost neurotic in its obsession to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success." Since then, by some accounts, planners and urban designers have not

Tower of David

How can the contemporary concepts in ecology studies—adaptability, resiliency, and flexibility—advance urban planning practices?

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Group Project: Measuring the Urban Heat Island Effect and its Relationship to NDVI in the D.C./Baltimore Region

Group Project: Urban Sprawl and Habitat Loss in Massachusetts 1976, "before"

Group Project: Urban Sprawl and Habitat Loss in Massachusetts 2009, "after"