Beatley Blue Biophilic Cities

Nature and Resilience Along The Urban Coast
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-67955-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beatley, Timothy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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