Where Does the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology Apply?
The short answer is “Not just in Baltimore.” Let’s explore this more deeply. A school of thought is a broad way of thinking, strategy for research, and approach to problem […]
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What’s Hidden in the New York Times Maps of All the Buildings in America?
Much well deserved amazement and attention has been heaped on the recent map of “every building in America,” by Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins, and John Schwartz, published on 12 October […]
Two Ways to Discover Disturbance
Ecological disturbance is often defined as an event that disrupts the structure of a specific system (Pickett & White, 1985). This kind of material or physical disruption is important because […]
Ecology Of the City is Twenty Years Old
The phrase “ecology ofthe city” was introduced in 1997 as a simple rhetorical device to highlight the novelty of the approach to urban ecology adopted in the initial proposal for […]
BES Annual Report 2017: Part 2 – What Is Our Theoretical Foundation?
A Role for Theory The goals of BES are supported by three major kinds of theories. Theories are unifying frameworks that embrace many models and identify the fundamental postulates and […]
How Many Principles of Urban Ecology Are There?
By Steward T.A. Pickett (Cary Institute) & Mary L. Cadenasso (University of California Davis) In 2008, we published a short paper on the principles of urban ecology (Cadenasso and Pickett […]
Yes, But What Theory Are You Testing?
Urban ecology talks and papers often begin with statements like these: More than half the world’s human population now lives in cities. Urban areas in the United States cover 3% […]
The Invisible in the City
Much that happens in cities — urban areas more broadly — is not obvious to the naked eye or to casual observation. The invisible things in urban social-ecological systems represent […]
A New School of Urban Ecology: Contributions from Baltimore
Modern American urban ecology can be said to have come to fruition to a large extent in Baltimore. Of course there are other cities where parallel, reinforcing, or complementary research […]
A Background Reading for the June 2015 Quarterly Project Meeting
Several of us have been working on an essay to describe more fully than an earlier post here, a theory of urban heterogeneity. That essay is not complete yet, but […]
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