The Baltimore School for Urban Ecology by J. Morgan Grove, Mary Cadenasso, Steward Pickett, Gary E. Machlis, and William R. Burch, Yale University Press, 2017, 256 pages.
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About The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity
The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more.
This important book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity that will apply in many different parts of the world. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on how to study, build, and manage cities in innovative and sustainable ways.
Praise for The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
“Hybrid vigor rules these pages. The Baltimore Sociology-Ecology Team eloquently elucidates a city’s overlapping, connected, dynamic patch patterns, both to understand and shape urban mosaics. Indeed this book uncovers foundations for a promising future.” —Richard T.T. Forman, author of Urban Ecology: Science of Cities
“This book stands out from others on urban ecology by its strong emphasis on a central concept and detailed descriptions of and reflections on method. It will be extremely useful in advancing urban ecology as an interdisciplinary pursuit.”—Joan Iverson Nassauer, University of Michigan
“This lucidly written book convincingly demonstrates the strength of long-term and multidisciplinary study on urban ecosystems. The innovative Baltimore School is introduced as an integrated approach to understanding the complexities of urban social-ecological systems.”—Jari Niemalä, Editor, Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications