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Sustainable Urban Design
Published in AbdulLateef Olanrewaju, Zalina Shari, Zhonghua Gou, Greening Affordable Housing, 2019
One of the strong prerequisites for sustainable urban design and ecological planning is the bio integration of the natural and built environments (Yeang, 2009). The provision of natural environments in the city is elaborated by Hagan (2015) who introduces the term ecological urbanism. According to the author ecological urbanism overlaps urban ecology when it addresses the urban environment that is a hybrid of natural and human made elements. However ecological urbanism focuses on human activities. Ecological urbanism demands that the built form is characterized by an irreducible and undeniable relationship between the human culture and its biophysical environments.
Imbricate Ecologies: Rethinking The City-Nature Relational Challenge
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
Under ecological urbanism, cities become part of the natural world. They are habitat, but are also ecosystems that make adaptive participation in larger, enduring ecosystems (Spirn 2011).
Responsibilities and challenges of urban design in the 21st century
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2020
For long, urban design was not particularly involved in promoting sustainability or resilience in cities. It was not until 1969, when Ian McHarg asserted the importance of instilling concerns about nature into the design process. More recently, branches of urban design research and practice known as Ecological Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism have touted the ecological functioning of urban landscapes, prompting designers to view the city as an ecosystem and a landscape.