Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions
that are important inside and outside the built environment
professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology
doing to the theory and practice of urban design? How does
Ecological Urbanism figure in this change? What is Ecological
Urbanism?
In answer, this book is neither definitive impossible when a
subject is still in motion nor encyclopaedic equally impossible
when so much has been written on almost every aspect of these
essays. Instead, it seeks to rebalance the ecological narrative and
its embryonic modes of practice with the narratives of urbanism and
its older, deeply embedded modes of practice. It examines the
implications for cities and the designers of cities now we are
required to again address their metabolic as well as social and
formal dimensions, and it explores the extent to which
environmental engineering and natural systems design can and should
become drivers for the remaking of cities in the 21st century.
Above all, it argues that sooner rather than later, urbanism needs
to become environmentally literate, and environmental design needs
to become culturally literate. "
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