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 […]
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Urban Ecology: Knowing or Making?
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 […]
The Kind of Solution A City 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 […]
Are You an Urbanist?
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 […]
Post-Industrial Baltimore
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 […]
BES II Project Outcomes
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 […]
Complexity: The Hidden Nugget in Jane Jacobs’ Book
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 […]
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