Blue Biophilic Cities (eBook)

Nature and Resilience Along The Urban Coast

Timothy Beatley (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XIII, 142 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-67955-6 (ISBN)

Infos

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives. We need that nature daily, if not hourly, and so it must be nearby to where we live and work. This is central to the concept of 'biophilic cities' which is emerging as a global movement and guiding framework for city design and planning. Blue Biophilic Cities is about the promise of this movement and a kind of biophilic urbanism that is possible for cities perched on the edge of harbours and seas.

In blue biophilic cities, much of the

nearby nature is to be found in the marine realm. This book explores the efforts underway in a number of cities to foster new marine connections through a variety of innovative programs and initiatives. It also discusses a number of design ideas, from dynamic shoreline edges and floodable parks to living breakwaters, in order to emphasise the possibility of designing for resilience while also supporting marine biodiversity and strengthening biophilic connections to the marine world. 


Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia, USA, where he has taught for the last thirty years. He founded and directs the Biophilic Cities Project and recently helped to launch a global Biophilic Cities Network.

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgements 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 9
Chapter 1: Future Cities: The Blue and Biophilic 14
The Blue City is a Biophilic City 18
Blue Wonder, Marine Magic 20
Why As Urbanists We Need and Must Care for Oceans 23
Medicine and Wildness 25
Some Concluding Thoughts 29
Chapter 2: Planning for the Balance of Danger and Delight 32
Some Concluding Thoughts 50
Chapter 3: An Unsustainable Bounty from the Blue: Cities to the Rescue? 52
Some Concluding Remarks 67
Chapter 4: Making the Marine World Visible: Fostering Emotional Connections to the Sea 69
Exchanging Tweets with a Great White Shark 72
Cultivating a Marine Ethos Through Experience and Adventure 76
Piering into the Night 80
The New York Harbor School and the Power of Oysters 83
Some Concluding Thoughts 88
Chapter 5: Rethinking the Blue–Urban Edge 90
Seeing and Experiencing Blue Cities in Spectacular New Ways 94
Resilience in Blue–Urban Design 102
The Vision of a Dynamic Shoreline 105
Towards Living Edges 107
Some Concluding Thoughts 110
Chapter 6: Just Blue (and Biophilic) Cities 113
Equigenic Blue 114
Some Concluding Thoughts 122
Chapter 7: Conclusions and Trajectories: Future Cities that are Blue and Biophilic 124
We Need Nature and Wildness in Our Lives More Than Ever and the Ocean Can Be a Major Source 125
We Need to Creatively Balance the Danger and the Delight 126
We Need to Appreciate the Ocean as Medicine 128
We Must Continue to Re-wild Our Blue Cities 130
Cities Must Become a Potent Force on Behalf of the Oceans 132
We Need to Secure Our Daily Doses of Blue Nature 132
We Must Work to Make Blue Nature More Visible 134
We Must Adjust Our Mental Maps of Cities 137
We Must Continue to Develop the Vision and Practice of Blue and Biophilic Cities 139
Bibliography 141
Index 144

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
• Reihe/Serie: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 142 p. 40 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Biophilic cities • Biophilic Urbanism • climate adaptation • Coastal Management • Coastal Sciences • Environmental Geography • environmental planning • urban geography and urbanism • urban planning • urban studies
• ISBN-10: 3-319-67955-4 / 3319679554
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-67955-6 / 9783319679556