Why Do Urban Ecology?
The ecological science of understanding the structure, workings, and change of urban places has three main reasons to be (raisons d’être, if you prefer the French). One is the fact […]
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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 […]
Why Come to Africa to Fully Understand Urbanization?
The transformation of the Earth’s human population to a predominantly urban home is one of the major milestones of the 21st century. While urbanization in industrialized regions such as the United […]
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 […]
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