The Urbanite (www.urbanitebaltimore.com) is one of Baltimore’s cultural and intellectual treasures. Available free at many locations, or by subscription for those who don’t get to town every month, it is […]
A Perspective on Points from Ramalho and Hobbs, As Reported by the BBC on 6 December 2011 A news report by the BBC on an article critical of urban ecology […]
Urbanists and the Old Walls The term, urbanist, originally meant someone who designed and built cities. The term is an old one, and when it was introduced into English in […]
Baltimore is often called a “post-industrial” urban region. What set of cultural and theoretical assumptions does this label invoke? The industrial and post-industrial tag emerges from the Modernist program and […]
The new theme for research in BES emphasizes adaptive processes as a key to understanding and working with urban sustainability. Because of its importance, the intellectual theme for BES this […]
Urban Socio-Ecological Research: Concepts, Contrasts, and Conclusions from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Introduction This document outlines ideas for a synthesis volume for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research project. […]
Many researchers and educators are concerned that the knowledge they generate can be used by society. However, this takes active effort because policy makers and environmental managers are busy and […]
What’s This All About? Second story bays, Charles Village neighborhood, Baltimore. BES LTER Photo. BES, as a Long-Term Ecological Research project, is funded in six year increments. BES II actually […]
Metacity: Beyond Mere Size Hong Kong. Copyright Brian McGrath. The term “metacity” was introduced by the United Nations as a way to capture the increasing size of the largest urban […]
There are two answers to this question. First, a wise man, Prof. M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, suggested at our first meeting that we needed some rules to guide how such […]
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