Ecological urbanism
By: edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty
Contributors: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baden, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
ISBN-13: 9783037781890
Subjects: City planning; Environmental degradation; Urban ecology (Sociology); Sustainable development
Description: While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities.
Notes: "Harvard University Graduate School of Design."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why ecological urbanism? Why now? / Mohsen Mostfavi; title: Anticipate : Advancement versus apocalypse / Rem Koolhaas ; Zeekracht / OMS ; Mumbai on my mind: some thought on sustainability / Homi K. Bhabha ; Urban earth: Mumbai / Daniel Raven-Ellison and Kye Askins ; Notes on the third ecology / Sanford Kwinter ; Social inequality and climate change / Ulrich Beck ; For a post-environmentalism: seven suggestions for a new Athens charter and the weak metropolis / Andrea Branzi ; Weak work: Andrea Branzi's "Weak metropolis" and the projective potential of an "ecological urbanism" / Charles Waldheim; title: From "sustain" to "ability" / JDS Architects ; Forty years later: back to a sub-lunar earth / Bruno Latour; title: Collaborate : Art fieldwork / Guiliana Bruno ; Ecological urbanism and/as urban metaphor / Lawrence Buell ; Black and white in green cities / Lizabeth Cohen ; The return of nature / Preston Scott Cohen and Erika Naginski ; Urban ecological practices: Félix Guattari's Three ecologies / Verena Andermatt Conley ; Retrofitting the city / Leland D. Cott ; Productive urban environments / Margaret Crawford; title: Sense : The city for the perspective of the nose / Sissel Tolaas ; Urban earth: Mexico City / Daniel Raven-Ellison ; CitySense: an urban-scale sensor network / Matt Welsh and Josh Bers ; Eat love / Marije Vogelzang ; Self-engineering ecologies / Christine Outram, Assaf Biderman, and Carlo Ratti ; There's more to green than meets the eye: green urbanism in Bahrain / Gareth Doherty ; Play me, I'm yours / Luke Jerram ; Mapping Main Street / Jesse Shapins, ... [et al.]; title: Curate : Curating resources / Niall Kirkwood ; The sea and monsoon within: a Mumbai manifesto / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip de Cunha ; Transcendent eco-cities or urban ecological security? Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin ; New waterscapes for Singapore / Herbert Dreiseitl ; To raise the water level in a fishpond / Zhang Huan ; Envisioning ecological cities / Mitchell Joachim ; Return to nature / Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman ; Harmonia 57 / Triptyque ; Grounding a sustainable urban strategy / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates ; Center Street Plaza / Hood Design; title: Produce : Energy sub-structure, supra-structure, infra-structure / D. Michelle Addington ; Wave Farm / Pelamis Wave Power Ltd. ; CR Land Guanganmen Green Technology showroom / Vector Architects ; Aux Fermes, Citoyens! / Dorothée Imbert ; Local river: home storage unit for fish and greens / Mathieu Lehanneur with Anthony van den Bossche ; Soft cities / KVA MATx ; The ZEDfactory / Bill Dunster ; Logroño eco-city / MVRDV ; The big-foot revolution / Kongjian Yu ; La Tour vivante, eco-tower / soa architectes; title: Collaborate : Management challenges in urban transformation: organizing to learn / Amy C. Edmondson ; Air purification in cities / David Edwards ; Social justice and ecological urbanism / Susan S. Fainstein ; Governing the ecological city / Gerald E. Frug ; Underground future / Peter Galison ; Temperate and bounded / Edward Glaeser ; Bioinspired adaptive architecture and sustainability / Donald E. Ingbar; title: Interact : Urban ecology and the arrangement of nature in urban regions / Richard T.T. Forman ; The agency of ecology / Chris Reed ; New York City infrastructure / Christoph Niemann ; Redefining infrastructure / Pierre Bélanger ; User-generated urbanism / Rebar ; Situating urban ecological experiments in public space / Alexander J. Felson and Linda Pollack ; A holistic view of the urban phenomenon / Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency ; Gwanggy New City Park System / Yoonjin Park and Jungyoon Kim (PARKKIM) ; A methodology for urban innovation / Alfonso Vegara, Mark Dwyer and Aaron Kelley ; Greenmetropolis / Henri Bava, ... [et al.]; title: Mobilize : Mobility, infrastructure, and society / Richard Sommer ; Sustainable urban mobility through light electric vehicles / William J. Mitchell ; Sustainable mobility in action / Federico Parolotto ; Sustaining the city in the face of advanced marginality / Loïc Wacquant ; A general theory of sustainable urbanism / Andrés Duany ; The political ecology of ecological urbanism / Paul Robbins ; The SynCity urban energy system model / Niels Schulz, ... [et al.] ; Oil city: petro-landscapes and sustainable futures / Michael Watts ; Niger Delta oil fields / Ed Kashi ; The upway / Rafael Viñoly ; GSD RESEARCH: Nairobi Studio / Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron; title: Measure : Five ecological challenges for the contemporary city / Stefano Boeri ; Revolutionizing architecture / Jeremy Rifkin ; The canary project / Susannah Sayler ; "Perfomalism": environmental metrics and urban design / Susannah Hagan ; Nature culture / Kathryn Moore ; Investigating the importance of customized energy model inputs: a case study of Gund Hall / Holly A. Wasilowski and Christoph F. Reinhart ; Perception of urban density / Vicky Cheng and Koen Steemers ; London's estuary region / Sir Terry Farrell ; Urban earth: London / Daniel Raven-Ellison ; Sustainability initiatives in London / Camilla Ween ; Moving beyond LEED: evaluating green at the urban scale / Thomas Schroepfer ; Landscapes of specialization / Bill Rankin ; GSD RESEARCH: Half a million trees: prototyping sites and systems for sustainable cities / Kristin Frederickson and Gary Hilderbrand ; SlaveCity / Atelier Van Lieshout ; EcoBox/self-managed eco-urban network / atelier d'architecture autogérée ; Temporary urban scene: beach on the moon / Ecosistema Urbano; title: Collaborate : Comfort and carbon footprint / Alex Krieger ; Ecological urbanism and health equity: an ecosocial perspective / Nancy Krieger ; Nature, infrastructures, and the urban condition / Antoine Picon ; Sustainability and lifestyle / Spiro Pollalis ; Ecological urbanism and the landscape / Martha Schwartz ; Old Dark / John Stilgoe ; Religious studies and ecological urbanism / Donald K. Swearer ; Ecological urbanism and East Asian literature / Karen Thornber; title: Adapt : Insurgent ecologies: (re)claiming ground in landscape and urbanism / Nina-Marie Lister; title: Performative wood: integral computational design for a climate-responsive timber surface structure / Achim Menges ; Shrinking Gotham's footprint / Laurie Kerr ; Adaptivity in architecture / Hoberman Associates, Ziggy Drozdowski and Shawn Gupta ; GSD RESEARCH: Climate change, water, land development, and adaptation: planning with uncertainty (Almere, the Netherlands) Armanado Carbonell, Martin Zogran, and Dirk Sijmons; title: Incubate : Balances and challenges of integrated practice / Toshiko Mori The luxury of reduction: on the role of architecture in ecological urbanism / Matthias Sauerbruch ; Bank of America / Cook+Fox Architects ; GSD RESEARCH: A place in heave, a place in hell: tactical operations in São Paolo / Christian Werthmann, Fernando de Mello Franco and Byron Stigge ; In situ: site specificity in sustainable architecture / Anja Thierfelder and Matthias Schuler ; Progetto bioclimatico / Mario Cucinella ; Wangzhuang eco-city of agriculture / Arup ; Ecosystemic master planning, DISEZ region, Senegal / ecoLogicStudio ; Vegetal city: dreaming the green utopia / Luc Schuiten ; Verticalism (the future of the skyscraper) / Iñaki Ábalos ; Urban prototypes / Raoul Bunschoten ; Taiwan Strait climate change incubator / Chora Architecture and Urbanism; title: The city / Ian McHarg; title: Ecological urbanism conference blog.