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Journal articles on the topic "Urban Ecologies"

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Groth, Sanne Krogh, and Kristine Samson. "Urban sound ecologies." SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/se.v3i3.18443.

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Within recent years, there has been a renewed focus on sound in urban environments. From sound installations in public space to sound festivals in alternative settings, we find a common interest in sound art relating to the urban environment. Artworks or interventions presented in such contexts share the characteristics of site specificity. However, this article will consider the artwork in a broader context by re-examining how sound installations relate to the urban environment. For that purpose, this article brings together ecology terms from acoustic ecology of the sound theories of the 1970s while developing them into recent definitions of ecology in urban studies. Finally, we unfold our framing of urban sound ecologies with three case analyses: a sound intervention in Berlin, a symphony for wind instruments in Copenhagen and a video walk in a former railway station in Kassel. The article concludes that the ways in which recent sound installations work with urban ecologies vary. While two of the examples blend into the urban environment, the other transfers the concert format and its mode of listening to urban space. Last, and in accordance with recent soundscape research, we point to how artists working with new information and media technologies create inventive ways of inserting sound and image into urban environments.
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Haughton, Graham, and Gordon McGranahan. "Editorial: Urban ecologies." Environment and Urbanization 18, no. 1 (April 2006): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247806063938.

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Shillington, Laura J., and Ann Marie F. Murnaghan. "Urban Political Ecologies and Children's Geographies: Queering Urban Ecologies of Childhood." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40, no. 5 (April 22, 2016): 1017–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12339.

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Gersdorf, Catrin. "Urban Ecologies: An Introduction // Ecologías urbanas: Una introducción." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 7, no. 2 (October 25, 2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2016.7.2.1151.

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This article introduces the conceptual framework of the special section on urban ecologies, as well as the different contributions. Resumen Este artículo introduce el marco conceptual y a los colaboradores de esta sección especial sobre ecologías urbanas.
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Gauvin, Mitchell. "Ecologies of Anxiety." Con Texte 3, no. 1 (May 26, 2022): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.28984/ct.v3i1.384.

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This paper examines the urban space as an ecology of anxiety in post-9/11 literature. After the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima in August 1945, survivors testified of experiencing prior to the bombing an anticipatory trauma known as bukimirooted in the belief that a catastrophic event was forthcoming. Paul K. Saint-Amour suggests that similar experiences to bukimi are not exclusive to the residents of Hiroshima but came to structure post-war urban experience as a result of a nuclear condition wrought by the Cold War. My paper explores whether a contemporary bukimi can be identified in post-9/11 literature. The post-9/11 novel—works which directly or indirectly acknowledge the terrorist attacks—present familiar but ambiguous forms of risk engendered by the threat of terrorism and maintained in the form of an urban-originated anxiety. This anxiety is rooted in the spectre of an event that’s never total or conclusive—an event that promises witness testimony and the maintenance of traumatic memories, but which also eclipses calamitous structures (like global warming) that are gradual and continuous. To unravel this contemporary species of bukimi, my paper examines depictions of the urban space in the post-9/11 literature of Foer and McEwan.
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Stoetzer, Bettina. "Ruderal Ecologies: Rethinking Nature, Migration, and the Urban Landscape in Berlin." Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 2 (May 21, 2018): 295–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca33.2.09.

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Engaging with a series of human–plant encounters in Berlin, this article explores possibilities for rethinking the heterogeneity of urban life in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and revisiting Berlin’s postwar history of botanical research, I develop the concept of the ruderal and expand it for an anthropological inquiry of urban life. The term ruderal was originally used by Berlin ecologists after the Second World War to refer to ecologies that spontaneously inhabit disturbed environments: the spaces alongside train tracks or roads, wastelands, or rubble. Exploring Berlin as a ruderal city, I direct attention to the often unnoticed, cosmopolitan, and unruly ways of remaking the urban fabric at a time of increased nationalism and ecological destruction. Tracing human–plant socialities in encounters between scientists and rubble plants, in public culture, and among immigrants and their makeshift urban gardens, the lens of the ruderal directs ethnographic analysis toward the city’s unintended ecologies as these are produced in the context of nation-making, war, xenophobia, migration, environmental change, and contemporary austerity policies. Attending to ruderal worlds, I argue, requires telling stories that do not easily add up but that combine environmental perspectives with the study of migration, race, and social inequality—in the interest of mapping out possibilities for change. This framework thus expands a recent anthropological focus on ruins, infrastructure, and urban landscapes by highlighting questions of social justice that are at stake in emerging urban ecologies and an era of inhospitable environments.
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Barua, Maan, Sushrut Jadhav, Gunjesh Kumar, Urvi Gupta, Priyanka Justa, and Anindya Sinha. "Mental health ecologies and urban wellbeing." Health & Place 69 (May 2021): 102577. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102577.

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Heynen, Nik. "Toward more embodied urban political ecologies." Dialogues in Human Geography 3, no. 1 (March 2013): 106–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820613483638.

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Francis, Robert A., Jamie Lorimer, and Mike Raco. "What is special about urban ecologies?" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38, no. 4 (September 6, 2013): 682–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12037.

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Barton, Angela Calabrese, Corey Drake, Jose Gustavo Perez, Kathleen St. Louis, and Magnia George. "Ecologies of Parental Engagement in Urban Education." Educational Researcher 33, no. 4 (May 2004): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x033004003.

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McDowell, Charles. "Reveal: new ecologies for an urban stream system." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8761.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Lee R. Skabelund
Throughout the history of Kansas City, the Brush Creek Corridor has experienced severe flooding which, on numerous occasions, has resulted in loss of life. This urban stream supports a high profile area of the city. It is located adjacent to what is considered Kansas City’s most elite shopping district, the JC Nichols Country Club Plaza, the University of Missouri - Kansas City urban campus, as well as numerous high density residential units. The stream corridor has been confined due to the encroachment of the surrounding urban environment which has minimized many opportunities for the future management of Brush Creek. There have been many flood control projects but these solutions have not been effective in reducing along the entire corridor. Previous projects have been done in a way that alienates urban dwellers from Brush Creek and does not allow pedestrians to utilize the stream corridor as an effective urban green space. The Brush Creek Corridor can be redesigned to revitalize the existing area by embracing natural ecological processes in order to create a more sustainable urban stream system. Brush Creek can be envisioned in a way that will enhance visitor experience by exposing and revealing the ecological processes to the users without inhibiting the functionality of those natural processes. Four project goals have been identified through research: improve, connect, and educate. In order to achieve the project goals, a set of sites are to be selected from the corridor. A corridor study is done to identify sites by assessing factors related to the site’s ability to improve, connect, and educate. Once the sites have been identified and defined, programming and site design strategies will be implemented to relate to the project goals. The selected sites within the Brush Creek Corridor will be models for experience oriented urban stream design. The project area will harbor healthy ecosystems with integrated pedestrian oriented spaces that connect the corridor, improve environmental conditions, and support environmental education. These projects will be catalysts for experience oriented ecological design solutions throughout the Brush Creek Corridor in the future.
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Gaspar, Christine. "Disturbing ecologies : interventions in Boston's seaport district." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/18071.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53).
"For the past fifty years the question of nature has been conspicuously absent from urbanistic discourse... The development of the American city can be explained through the opposition between nature and culture, wilderness and city."-- Diana Agrest, 1996. From the Greek for study of the house, ecology refers to the relationships (or the study thereof) between organisms and their physical environment. As a field of study, ecology is relatively young, one that initially concentrated on descriptive research attempting to understand the processes of "natural" systems absent human intervention. Only recently have ecologists begun to argue for the understanding of the urban environment as participating in these processes. At issue in this debate is how one perceives the role of humans. The historical Western division between "nature" and "culture" is still operative; for many, the very definition of nature is that which is non-human. This thesis is an attempt to move beyond that division by forging an understanding of the city as a set of interlaced ecologies, including the biotic (animal, plants, microorganisms), the abiotic (water, wind, sun, soil), the sociocultural (social networks, psychogeography), the political (land uses, wards, school districts), and the economic (land value, capital flows), among others. Through an understanding that places humans and human settlement directly in nature, a new mode of urban intervention may becomes viable. The goal of this thesis is to explore and develop new models for understanding the ecological city, models that will enable new modes of urban intervention.
by Christine Cerqueira Gaspar.
M.C.P.
M.Arch.
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Sohie, Caroline. "Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23702.

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Culture has been consistently underrepresented in the sustainability debate and often perceived as a constraining factor to modern-day advancement. However in recent years, the broadening development paradigm in the Global South is increasingly asserting culture's indispensable role in sustainable human development. This dominant cultural paradigm mainstreamed by UNESCO is subscribed to by government and other role-players within the domain of culture and urban development. Despite its significant achievements, it however comes with a specific heritage conceptualisation, which is disconnected from local reality and perpetuates a problematic theoretical construct of cultural legacy, which is steeped in a Eurocentric conservation bias with colonial undertones. The thesis argues that this model will not lead to transformative interventions in urban areas that harness the power of culture if its interpretation remains decontextualised and perpetuates an instrumentalised view of culture and cultural conservation practice, inherited from the past. The thesis explores how an alternative conceptualisation of culture, based on the concept of cultural ecologies, can be more meaningful and beneficial in contributing to the theoretical reassessment of the human settlements imaginary. This is achieved through an interdisciplinary literature review and a case study of Bagamoyo, a small urban settlement in Tanzania. Through a systematic diagnosis of this small scale locality, cultural ecologies are foregrounded through the primary lens of the urban public-private interface and framed within a context that is shaped by the dynamics of globalisation. Additionally, the study takes place against the backdrop of a failed UNESCO World Heritage application, which allows me to discuss the undercurrents and invested interests associated with cultural heritage politics and the traumatic impact global conventions can have on local sustainability. It concludes in a proposed approach that repositions culture at the core of social exchange and argues that cultural sensitive development is an ongoing socio-cultural production process. Its potential lies in capturing the layered 'ordinariness' of place and in harnessing the imaginative responses arising from local idioms, practices and traditions as the shared imaginary of tomorrow.
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Lewis, Joshua. "Deltaic Dilemmas : Ecologies of Infrastructure in New Orleans." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119390.

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This thesis explores the relationship between water infrastructure, ecological change, and the politics of planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta, USA. Complex assemblages of water control infrastructure have been embedded in the delta over the last several centuries in an effort to keep its cities protected from floodwaters and maintain its waterways as standardized conduits for maritime transportation. This thesis investigates the historical development of these infrastructural interventions in the delta’s dynamics, and shows how the region’s eco-hydrology is ensnared in the politics and materiality of pipes, pumps, canals, locks, and levees. These historical entanglements complicate contemporary efforts to enact large-scale ecosystem restoration, even while the delta’s landscape is rapidly eroding into the sea. This historical approach is extended into the present through an examination of how waterway standards established at so-called chokepoints in the global maritime transportation system (the Panama Canal, for example) become embedded and contested in coastal landscapes and port cities worldwide. Turning towards urban ecology, the thesis examines socioecological responses to the flooding following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with a special focus on how infrastructure failures, flooding intensity, and land abandonment are driving changing vegetation patterns in New Orleans over the past decade. The thesis contributes new conceptual language for grappling with the systemic relations bound up in water infrastructure, and develops one of the first studies describing urban ecosystem responses to prolonged flooding and post-disaster land management. This provides insights into the impending planning challenges facing New Orleans and coastal cities globally, where rising sea levels are bringing about renewed attention to how infrastructure is implicated in patterns of ecological change, hazard exposure, resilience, and social inequality.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Accepted. Paper 5: Manuscript.

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Mahesh, Madhav Gogate. "Making Heritage Ecologies: Urbanisation and Water Bodies ‘of’ Varanasi, India." Doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/263769.

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京都大学
新制・課程博士
博士(地域研究)
甲第23308号
地博第289号
京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科グローバル地域研究専攻
(主査)准教授 D'SOUZA Rohan Ignatious, 教授 中溝 和弥, 教授 藤田 幸一, 准教授 中村 沙絵
学位規則第4条第1項該当
Doctor of Area Studies
Kyoto University
DGAM
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Bux, Quraisha. "Understanding urban ecologies in the context of local biodiversity and open space conservation agendas in two South African cities." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30062.

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South Africa is the third most biologically diverse country in the world and has developed advanced biodiversity legislation and policies to protect its natural environment. Biodiversity is the natural wealth of all living things on earth, from which a multitude of ecosystem services that sustain life emanate. The dramatic shift towards urban living however, places tremendous pressure on these biological resources. Local government has received international recognition as the level of government that is key to securing long-term global sustainability. The cities of Cape Town and Durban in South Africa have each developed their own biodiversity and open space conservation systems to conserve and protect the remaining biodiversity and open spaces within their respective municipal boundaries. The aim of this research was to explore the local biodiversity and open space conservation strategies in these two cities, with a view to understanding: (1) the informants, and emerging form, of urban conservation strategies in these two cities in light of their variable biophysical templates and histories; and (2) the physical landscape pattern in each city, and from this information, infer likely ecological outcomes, for these two cities. The study made use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The results reveal that while both cities are facing similar issues in terms of biodiversity loss and natural habitats becoming increasingly fragmented, the way in which these issues manifest in these different cities is unique. The City of Cape Town is highly developed and fragmented but has more land secured under its conservation plan compared to the City of Durban. Durban however, has a large rural land component which remains under the governance of traditional leaders. The study reveals that there are many factors that play a role in the development and success of conservation plans, including: the local context, biophysical templates, city histories, social informants of how these plans emerge and evolve, contemporary governance structures as well as local pressures. Biodiversity conservation in South African cities still faces many challenges which need to be overcome in the near future. These solutions will need to be city specific.
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Modna, Daniela. "Influência das áreas verdes urbanas na temperatura e na umidade do ar em São Carlos-SP." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18139/tde-17062016-153958/.

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A remoção da vegetação para dar lugar a edificações e superfícies pavimentadas implica na anulação de diversos serviços ambientais. Entre eles está o sombreamento, que impede a aquecimento do ar derivado da re-emissão da radiação solar pelas superfícies. O ar quente e seco contribui para o aumento da sensação de desconforto e favorece a incidência de doenças respiratórias. O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar valores de temperatura e umidade do ar, comparando-se dados coletados por estações meteorológicas automáticas instaladas em regiões arborizadas e áridas da cidade, durante a ocorrência de episódios representativos do clima da região. Os procedimentos metodológicos, baseados na Climatologia Dinâmica, consistiram em relacionar a sucessão de tipos de tempo meteorológico de escala regional às diferenças observadas entre os pontos de estudo, provocadas por fenômenos provenientes das atividades humanas. Isto permitiu a clara identificação de variações climáticas críticas para o conforto e a saúde humanos, tais como grandes amplitudes térmicas e baixos valores de umidade do ar. Os resultados mostraram amplitudes térmicas menores nas áreas arborizadas (em média 3ºC) e, em alguns casos, umidade do ar mais elevada em comparação aos valores observados nas partes áridas estudadas. Estas verificações reforçam a afirmação da necessidade de ampliação das áreas verdes de São Carlos, que contribuem na atenuação as condições climáticas de desconforto e insalubridade. Em conseqüência, aumentam a qualidade de vida da população e as condições de sustentabilidade do ambiente urbano. Tal afirmação vem ao encontro da legislação ambiental brasileira e dos anseios da população são-carlense. Espera-se que as constatações deste trabalho sejam um elemento adicional na adoção de políticas públicas mais comprometidas com a saúde humana e ambiental.
Removal of vegetation giving place to buildings and pavement involves the cancellation of many environmental services. One of them is shading effect, which avoids the air heating due to solar radiation re-emitted by surfaces. Hot and dry air promotes human discomfort and rise on incidence of respiratory diseases. The aim of this study was to analyze temperature and air humidity values, comparing data from automatic meteorological stations installed on wooded and arid areas of the city, during representative climatic episodes. Methodological procedures were based on the Dynamic Climatology principles. They allow relating the enchaining of weather patterns (at zonal scale) with differences observed in the urban sites (considering a smaller scale) promoted by human activities. So, it was possible to specify critical climatic variations to human comfort, such as great thermal amplitudes and decrease of air humidity values. Results showed smaller thermal amplitudes in wooded areas (average of 3ºC) and, in some cases, higher values of air humidity in comparison to values observed in the arid sites. These measurements reinforce the idea to improve São Carlos\' green areas, since they contribute to attenuate the uncomfortable and unhealthy climatic conditions. As a consequence, life quality and urban environment sustainability conditions will also increase. This matches with Brazilian\'s environmental laws, as well as with the desires of São Carlos\' inhabitants. The conclusions of this study will support the adoption of public policies concerned with human and environmental health.
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Moraes, Aline Ferraz Gringo [UNESP]. "Assembleia de aves no meio urbano e suas relações com áreas verdes." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/143802.

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A urbanização altera a composição e a diversidade das comunidades bióticas, por esse motivo pesquisas ecológicas têm sido realizadas nas cidades com o objetivo de reconhecer seus impactos. As aves, consideradas bioindicadores, têm sido intensamente estudadas em áreas urbanas. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a riqueza e a abundância da avifauna na área urbana de Bauru (SP), bem como verificar como diferentes coberturas vegetais podem interferir na comunidade de aves. A avifauna foi amostrada entre dezembro de 2014 e novembro de 2015 em quatro áreas, sendo três condomínios residenciais e um campus universitário. As observações ocorreram mensalmente em cada uma das áreas, sendo uma hora no período matutino e uma hora no período vespertino. O método utilizado foi o transecto linear com duração de 60 minutos, totalizando 96 horas de observação. Em todas as áreas foi realizada a caracterização da cobertura vegetal arbórea como número de espécies e de indivíduos utilizando amostras de vegetação paralelas aos transectos. Foi observado que a riqueza de aves aumentou com a riqueza da vegetação. Além disso, as áreas mais urbanizadas e com menor diversidade vegetal estiveram relacionadas com alta abundancia e poucas espécies de aves. Sugerindo que uma maior riqueza da cobertura arbórea, mesmo em áreas centrais das cidades, pode auxiliar na presença da avifauna.
Urbanization alters the composition and diversity of biotic community, therefore ecological research has been conducted in the cities in order to recognize its impacts. The birds, considered bioindicators, have been intensively studied in urban areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate the richness and abundance of avifauna in the urban area of Bauru, state of São Paulo (SP), Brazil, as well as verify how different vegetation covers may interfere with the bird community. The avifauna was sampled between December 2014 and November 2015 in four areas: three residential condominiums and a university campus. The observations were monthly held in each of the areas, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. The method used was linear transect with a duration of 60 minutes, totaling 96 hours of observation. In all areas, it was carried out the characterization of arboreal vegetation cover, as for the number of species and individuals, using parallel vegetation samples to transects. It was observed that the richness of birds increased with the richness of vegetation. In addition, more urbanized areas and with less plant diversity were related to high abundance and a few species of birds. Suggesting that the richness of arboreal covering, even in central areas of cities, may assist in the presence of avifauna.
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Nolasco, Camille Lanzarotti. "A dimensão ecológica da agricultura urbana no município de Juiz de Fora/MG." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/4685.

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A Agricultura Urbana (AU) tem sido objeto de estudos recentes, devido à sua grande importância junto às ciências sociais e políticas e sua localização dentro dos limites das cidades contemporâneas. Suas implicações na Ecologia Urbana vão desde a manutenção de áreas verdes e interação com a fauna, até a perpetuação de saberes tradicionais da população, passando por questões como a segurança alimentar de seus habitantes, a utilização dos recursos naturais, e a sustentabilidade urbana. Entender como a Agricultura Urbana está inserida na Ecologia Urbana permite criar propostas integradas a outras questões de cunho ecológico que venham a direcionar a cidade para um futuro sustentável. O presente estudo teve como objetivo central compreender a dimensão ecológica da agricultura urbana, nas áreas intra e periurbanas, do Distrito Sede do município de Juiz de Fora, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, analisando como a prática da agricultura urbana dialoga com a ecologia desta cidade. Através das indicações de informantes foram encontradas 179 áreas de ocorrência de AU em Juiz de Fora, separadas em setores específicos na execução desta pesquisa: Projetos Sociais Municipais, Escolas (municipais, estaduais, federais e particulares), Instituições (públicas, religiosas, assistenciais e unidades básicas de saúde), Áreas de Produção Comercial, e Quintais Produtivos (no bairro Monte Castelo). Entrevistas semi-estruturadas e visitas foram realizadas em um total de 77 áreas. A partir do resultado obtido empiricamente, foi possível categorizar os agricultores urbanos de Juiz de Fora (migrantes rurais, idosos, professores, alunos, beneficiários de projetos e agricultores comerciais) que associaram a atividade agrícola a uma melhoria na qualidade de vida, apresentando orgulho de suas produções, felicidade e apreciação da beleza cênica. Constatou-se que as interações ecológicas se dão de várias formas, sendo encontrados pontos positivos como o menor deslocamento entre a produção e o consumidor final, a manutenção e criação de áreas verdes e com solo permeável, a pouca utilização de agrotóxicos, o fornecimento de alimento e habitat para indivíduos da fauna, a diversidade de espécimes vegetais, o aproveitamento de resíduos orgânicos através de compostagem (pouca ainda), a aproximação das pessoas com o verde e a utilização da AU como ferramenta de educação ambiental, alimentar e cidadã. Dentre os pontos negativos levantados estão: a utilização de águas contaminadas, a utilização de alguns agrotóxicos e de adubação química, e o pouco aproveitamento dos resíduos orgânicos. Sendo que a maioria dos problemas relacionados com a má utilização dos recursos naturais pelos agricultores urbanos se deve a falta de instrução, treinamento e acompanhamento. A pesquisa constatou que as áreas agrícolas urbanas em Juiz de Fora constituem locais de grande importância para os envolvidos, para a conservação dos recursos naturais e biodiversidade, para a manutenção de saberes tradicionais e são fundamentais na busca por uma sustentabilidade desta cidade.
The urban agriculture (UA) has been the object of recent studies due to its importance from the social and policy sciences and its location within the limits of contemporary cities. Their implications for Urban Ecology ranging from the maintenance of green areas and interaction with wildlife, to the perpetuation of traditional knowledge of the population, through such issues as, food security of its inhabitants, use of natural resources and urban sustainability. Understanding how Urban Agriculture is embedded in the Urban Ecology, create integrated proposals to other environmental issues that will guide the city into a sustainable future. This study aimed to understand the ecological dimension of the Urban Agriculture, within urban and in suburban areas of the District Headquarters of the municipality of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, analyzing how the practice of Urban Agriculture occurs and argue with the ecology of this city. Were found 179 areas of UA occurrence in Juiz de Fora indicated by the informants, separated into specific sectors in the implementation of this research: Social Municipal Projects, Schools (municipal, state, federal and private), Institutions (public, religious, welfare and basic health units), Commercial production areas, and Productive backyards (neighborhood of Monte Castelo). Semi-structured interviews and visits were carried out in a total of 77 areas. From the empirical result, it was possible to categorize the urban farmers of Juiz de Fora (rural migrants, elderly, teachers, students, beneficiaries of projects and commercial farmers) who joined the agricultural activity to an improvement in quality of life, having pride of their productions, happiness and appreciation of scenic beauty. The ecological interactions occur in several ways, being observed positive points as the smaller distance between production and final consumer, the maintenance and creation of green areas and permeable soil, low use of agrochemicals, supply of food and habitat for fauna individuals, diversity of plant specimens, use of organic waste through composting (still low), the approach of people with the green and use of the UA as a tool for food, citizen and environmental education. Among the negative points raised are: the use of contaminated water, the use of some pesticides and chemical fertilizer, and little use of organic waste. The majority of problems related to bad use of natural resources by farmers are due to lack of education, training and monitoring. This research found that urban agricultural areas in Juiz de Fora are places of great importance for those involved, for the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, for the maintenance of traditional knowledge, and are fundamental in the search for sustainability of this city.
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França, José Ulisses Bezerra de. "Biodiversidade arbórea e estoque de carbono em áreas verdes urbanas: contribuições para a infraestrutura verde de São Paulo, SP." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2017. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1766.

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The disorderly growth of urban centers has brought a series of social and environmental complications, among them the fragmentation of green areas, the loss of biodiversity and the introduction of exotic and invasive species that directly affect the provision of ecosystem services. Such services are fundamental in urban environments, especially in poorly planned cities, such as the city of São Paulo. Thus, it is fundamental to evaluate the urban green spaces, mainly regarding the composition of species and carbon stock. In this sense, the present master's work investigated the floristic composition of public square trees in the city of São Paulo, as well as the carbon stock associated with this vegetation. Thirteen public squares were selected in four Regional Prefectures belonging to two zones, East and West. All trees with diameter at breast height (DBH) greater than 5 cm were selected and identified by means of collection of the preferentially flowering branch and the DAP and height were measured. They were inventoried 1510 individuals, belonging to 29 botanical families and 91 different species. Of this total, 56.4% were exotic species, 45.3% native and 0.3% undetermined. The most representative botanical family of this study was Fabaceae and in relation to functional groups, 87% of the individuals were trees and only 13% were palm trees. The square with the greatest abundance of species was José Ória and Carlos januário and in general, a positive correlation was observed between the size of the area of the square and abundance of species, however, the size of the area was not correlated (alpha <95%) with other attributes And ecological ecological indexes. However, floristic similarity was found in squares of the same size, with emphasis on the taxonomic family level. It was observed that all the individuals stored a total of 464.9 tons of C, being that this value is equivalent to 65.2 Ton C. ha-1. The exotic species had great contribution in the storage of the element in their respective trunks. Thus, the urban green areas of the present study show a floristic pattern that follows some tendencies of urbanized areas outside the country, due to the scarcity of studies of this nature in Brazil, and they store a reasonable amount of C per hectare of area Sampled, thus providing a great environmental service for the city of São Paulo. Based on these possible results, it is hoped to contribute to proposals and management plans for urban afforestation in the city of São Paulo, especially with regard to the creation of ecological corridors for the transit of urban fauna.
O crescimento desordenado dos centros urbanos tem trazido uma série de complicações de ordem social e ambiental, dentre as quais se destacam a fragmentação das áreas verdes, a perda da biodiversidade e a introdução de espécies exóticas e invasoras que afetam diretamente a prestação de serviços ecossistêmicos. Tais serviços são fundamentais em ambientes urbanos, principalmente em cidades mal planejadas, como é o caso da cidade de São Paulo. Assim, torna-se fundamental a avaliação dos espaços verdes urbanos, principalmente no que diz respeito a composição de espécies e estoque de carbono. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho de mestrado investigou a composição florística de árvores de praças públicas da cidade de São Paulo, bem como o estoque de carbono associado a esta vegetação. Treze praças públicas foram selecionadas em quatro Prefeituras Regionais pertencentes a duas zonas, a Leste e a Oeste. Todas as árvores com diâmetro a altura do peito (DAP) maior do que 5 cm foram selecionadas e identificadas por meio de coleta do ramo preferencialmente florido e tiveram o DAP e a altura mensuradas. Foram inventariados 1510 indivíduos, pertencendo a 29 famílias botânicas e 91 espécies diferentes. Deste total, 56,4% eram espécies exóticas, 45,3% nativas e 0,3% indeterminadas. A famílias botânicas mais representativa deste estudo foi Fabaceae e em relação aos grupos funcionais 87% dos indivíduos eram árvores e apenas 13% palmeiras. A praça com maior abundância de espécies foi José Ória e Carlos Januário e em geral, notou-se correlação positiva entre o tamanho da área da praça e abundância de espécies, porém, o tamanho da área não foi correlacionado (alfa<95%) com outros atributos e índices ecológicos. No entanto, encontrou-se similaridade florística em praças de mesmo tamanho, com destaque para o nível taxonômico de família. Observou-se que todos os indivíduos estocam um total de 464,9 toneladas de C, sendo que este valor equivale a 65,2 Ton C. ha-1. As espécies exóticas tiveram grande contribuição no armazenamento do elemento em seus respectivos troncos. Com isso, nota-se que as áreas verdes urbanas do presente estudo apresentam um padrão florístico que segue algumas tendências de áreas urbanizadas fora do país, dado a escasses de estudos desta natureza no Brasil, e estocam uma quantidade razoável de C por hectare de área amostrada, prestando assim um ótimo serviço ambiental para a cidade de São Paulo. A partir destes possíveis resultados, espera-se contribuir para propostas e planos de manejo da arborização urbana da cidade de São Paulo, principalmente no que tange a criação de corredores ecológicos para o trânsito da fauna urbana.
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Ecologies urbaines. Paris: Economica, 2010.

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Scott, Kristin. The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39173-1.

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Smart cities as democratic ecologies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Reigning the river: Urban ecologies and political transformation in Kathmandu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

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Lucido, Simone. Attraverso la città: Percorsi di ecologia politica. Milano, Italy: FrancoAngeli, 2000.

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Sirkis, Alfredo. Ecologia urbana e poder local. 3rd ed. [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]: TIX Editora, 2010.

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Sirkis, Alfredo. Ecologia urbana e poder local. 3rd ed. [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]: TIX Editora, 2010.

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Sirkis, Alfredo. Ecologia urbana e poder local. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Fundação Movimento Ondazul, 1999.

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Isarema, Cioni, ed. Ecologia urbana: L'uomo e la città. Torino: UTET libreria, 2004.

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Schiaretti, Antonio. La città ritrovata: Note di ecologia urbana. Firenze: Alinea Editrice, 1991.

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Short, John Rennie. "New urban ecologies." In The Unequal City, 147–69. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315272160-9.

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Ergin, Meliz. "Latife Tekin’s Urban Ecologies." In The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures, 201–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63263-6_7.

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McKeithen, Will, Larry Knopp, and Michael Brown. "Queering urban politics and ecologies." In The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics, 528–38. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468-51.

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Mathew, Anijo Punnen. "Urban Research Machines: Engaging the Modern Urban Citizen through Public Creativity." In Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies, 43–63. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137377203_5.

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Mahmoudi, Dillon, Anthony M. Levenda, and John G. Stehlin. "Political ecologies of platform urbanism." In Urban Platforms and the Future City, 40–52. First Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429319754-4.

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Yates, Julian S., Marc Tadaki, and Cristy Clark. "Political ecologies of urban water governance." In Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance, 331–44. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003057574-28.

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Chin, T. "Industrial Ecologies: Manufacturing the Post-industrial Landscape." In Urban and Transit Planning, 69–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17308-1_7.

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Shane, D. Grahame. "Urban Patch Dynamics and Resilience: Three London Urban Design Ecologies." In Future City, 131–61. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5341-9_7.

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Samson, Kristine. "Events and Ecologies of Design and Urban Activism." In Design and Political Dissent, 202–16. New York : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351187992-15.

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Sharma, Sneha, and D. Parthasarathy. "Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations around Waste in Mumbai." In Exploring Urban Change in South Asia, 207–23. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4932-3_11.

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Nilsson, Elisabet. "Gardening communities as urban archives and social resource in urban planning." In Nordes 2015: Design Ecologies. Nordes, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.021.

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Helgason, Ingi. "Discourse, speculation and multidisciplinarity: Designing urban futures." In Nordes 2015: Design Ecologies. Nordes, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.004.

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Segawa, Tatsuma. "Urban mine as craft material: Potential use of wastes as glaze colorants." In Nordes 2015: Design Ecologies. Nordes, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.035.

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Fjalland, Emmy. "Reparative Practices: Invitations from mundane urban ecologies." In Nordes 2019: Who Cares? Nordes, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2019.008.

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Pak, Burak, and Johan Verbeke. "A Web-Based Geographic Virtual Environment for the Deliberation of Alternative Urban Development Projects Prepared for Brussels." In ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies. ACADIA, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2012.527.

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Kaprielian, Gabriel, and Carlos Sandoval. "Waterfront Ecologies: Redefining the Urban Edge of the San Francisco Bay." In 2017 ACSA Annual Conference. ACSA Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.amp.105.66.

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Waterfront Ecologies re-envisions the edge condition around the San Francisco Bay, creating a new set of relationships between urban life and ecology. In 24 sites along the contested shoreline of the Bay Area, our redevelopment strategy illustrates a new methodology to design holistically as we face challenges posed by climate change and a growing population.
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Wong, Pia. "Creating Healthy Urban Teacher Education Ecologies: The Case of STEM Power." In 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1884686.

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Lassance, Guilherme, Cédric Libert, Patricia Figueira Lassance, and Maria Elisa Feghali. "The sensitive tower: Architectural and urban design education faced with fragile metropolitan ecologies." In eCAADe 2011 : Respecting Fragile Places. eCAADe, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2011.581.

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Cianfanelli, Elisabetta, Maria Claudia Coppola, and Margherita Tufarelli. "Overcrowded Ecologies: Designing Value through More-than-Human Factors." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001414.

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With artificial intelligence being tirelessly trained and constantly learning about subjects and objects inhabiting given environments, whole new ecosystems have been rising and developing, where beings and things are equally entangled in boundaries, connections and relationships, capable of enacting their own agencies at any time.In fact, since everyday life becomes more and more home to smart objects related to the Internet of Things paradigm at different scales of innovation - private, social, urban systems -, the resulting overcrowded ecologies seem to ask to be tackled through design approaches focusing not only on artifacts understood at a limited stage of use and as passive tools related to human agency only. Autonomous vehicles, robots, sensing surfaces, recording devices are populating society in increasing numbers, pushing the social sphere towards its more-than-human futures. In this sense, the resulting computational environment produces a more-than-human experience, with all its clustering, classifying and patterning information happening almost instantaneously and often without the need of a perceiving subject. This leads to a significant change in the way information is experienced and used: examining the interlocking nature of humans and technology by looking at the way technology is humanised, and humans are technologised, it seems that smart objects are gaining complex features like being deliberative, reflectional, experiential and communicative, allowing them to produce both reflectional knowledge, - namely knowledge which humans can use to think about phenomena with new insights - and actionable knowledge - namely knowledge which non-human actants can use to do things and achieve goals. Thus, human knowledge and data-driven knowledge promote specific values, influencing collective life, launching a twofold challenge in overcrowded ecologies: from one side, designers might address thing factors so that they could sense and understand the world through more-than-human values; from the other side designers might address being factors to build meaning through shared values.As both beings and things learn and act, the world is full of extended agencies, where it is not worth distinguishing whether humans extend their own agency through objects or vice versa. According to the “hybrid” behaviorism making its way and leading to new insights for design culture, the contribution aims at investigating more-than-human factors and values in times of hyper-communication, where contemporary landscapes appear so heterogeneously populated, that embracing diversity and the radical interdependence it entails means grasping the diverse needs of design beneficiaries, be they beings or things. Synthetic and organic agency, natural and machinical ones: it is very likely that designers will not only design with them, but also for them: networks of natural and computational entities can in fact be thought of not only given objects - wheter they be enabler or disabler - but agents participating in the design space, triggering the development of corresponding design methods, frameworks, and practices to better address the challenges to be faced today as a planet. Thus, designing in overcrowded ecologies becomes a matter of care and inspires designers into shaping more-than-human communities, expanding their disciplinary areas of practice as an exercise of stewardship within society.
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Harrison, Ariane Lourie. "Architecture and Analogous Habitats." In AIA/ACSA Intersections Conference. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.20.5.

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Harrison Atelier proposes architecture for multiple species in projects that range from pavilion-scale agricultural infrastructure to speculations for new urban ecologies. Such built work represents the application of principles from architectural theories of the posthuman, namely a focus that seeks to integrate habitats for non-humans into architectural design concerns. The Pollinators Pavilion by architect Ariane Harrison, seeks a larger role for architecture in environmental activism and focuses on biodiversity conservation and materials exploration. Harrison Atelier uses artificial intelligence and automated scientific monitoring strategies to create and analyze habitat systems and increase building awareness.
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