What Is a[n Urban] Watershed?
Watershed are urban features Watersheds in Baltimore Watersheds are important parts of both wild and civilized places. In both city and countryside, watersheds express the flow of water, with its […]
Watershed are urban features Watersheds in Baltimore Watersheds are important parts of both wild and civilized places. In both city and countryside, watersheds express the flow of water, with its […]
Our friend and colleague, Alex Felson, of the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has a unusual perspective on what urban ecology is […]
A while ago I wrote about Jane Jacobs’ insight that cities were complex systems[i]. The stone that she dropped in the urban pond in 1961 has rippled widely, and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well, perhaps it’s unfair to call it hidden. It is after all the topic of the final chapter, entitled “The Kind of Problem a City Is.” In that chapter, she […]