000			01761nam a22002177a 4500
999			_c32185 _d32185
020			_a978-0-415-50667-0
040			_aBC-EPAU
041			_aeng
100			_aHAGAN, Susannah
245			_aEcological urbanism _bthe nature of the city
260			_aLondon _aNew York _bRoutledge _c2015
300			_aXIII-174 p. _b Ill. en coul., couv. ill. , fig. _c24 cm.
942			_c01 _t0711 _u7.2.0
994			_a07110242
500			_a Bibliogr. p. [158]-168. Index
520			_aEcological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design? How does Ecological Urbanism figure in this change? What is Ecological Urbanism? In answer, this book is neither definitive – impossible when a subject is still in motion – nor encyclopaedic – equally impossible when so much has been written on almost every aspect of these essays. Instead, it seeks to rebalance the ecological narrative and its embryonic modes of practice with the narratives of urbanism and its older, deeply embedded modes of practice. It examines the implications for cities and the designers of cities now we are required to again address their metabolic as well as social and formal dimensions, and it explores the extent to which environmental engineering and natural systems design can and should become drivers for the remaking of cities in the 21st century. Above all, it argues that sooner rather than later, urbanism needs to become environmentally literate, and environmental design needs to become culturally literate.
653			_aUrbanisme
653			_aÉcologie urbaine
653			_aVilles
653			_aNature