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Macro/Micro Study + The Review

MACRO study From the first initial diagrams I posted in my last post, I developed a site plan which has 4 buildings, each house its own theater, scattered all over the site all the way out to the river. All of which will be connected together through a natural habitat pathway. In my drawings, the […] […]

Macro/Micro Progress and Next Steps

My macro study was the development of a new urban plan for the Freight House Redevelopment District and a study of how to improve the downtown river walk, connecting it to my site and through to the baseball stadium. Previously, I had imagined my Center For Local Foods as providing a new extention of the […]

A Macro Study

Here is a sampling of the design I have so far. The concept for the entire site is to use it as an exhibition for the natural process of ecological succession. The most disturbed part of the site will be planted with early successionary species, while the more “natural” part of the site will be restored […] […]

Eric Strauss on–you guessed it–Urban Ecology

Eric Strauss gave a talk at Boston College entitled “Urban Ecology: A New Science for Revitalizing America’s Cities.” Among other things, he illuminates important ties between urban ecology and social equity. The quality and character of the urban landscape is how people view nature. If most people are living in cities and most young people are […] […]

Urban Ecology; or, where we fit on this planet

At the heart of urban ecology is the idea (which is strangely new to Western civilization) that the species homo sapien is, like every other organism in the universe, part of an ecosystem. As human beings, we are fantastic competitors. We have learned to out-compete almost every other species for food, land, water, and other resources; […] […]