Reflections on Urban Ecology after reading the article “Urban Natural Areas” by Mark Griswold Wilson and Emily Roth in Restoring the Pacific Northwest. . I admit it. I don’t like cities. I never have. To me, cities were far to filled with people and far too lacking in nature. I feel claustrophobic in an environment where everything I […] […]
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Sorry, this is not in .pdf form; I had a hell of a time trying to get the pdf to upload, with no success. I don’t like Google Doc’s pdf viewer (I think it displays graphics poorly), but you can download the original pdf from there. So! This is the final draft with everything in it. […] […] Here is a nearly-complete draft of my thesis document. A few pages still need text (such as the “natural conditions” page) and the “spacial relationships” page needs a finalized diagram. Additionally, title pages and transition pages are not yet included. Criticism I’m looking for: content, layout, readability, spelling. Also! I need a name for this project! Suggestions […] […] Here is the first round draft of my thesis document. Much, much more to come. Click to View. […] If you were to visually compare a traditional grade-school curriculum and an EIC (Environment as Integrating Context for learning) program, it would look something like this: [click to enlarge] There is an interesting parallel between the traditional curriculum– divided into distinct and separate disciplines– and standard design practices. Now, if we were to look at design with […] […] To reflect and review, here is a mid-term look at where this project is going. [click to view poster] […] After talking it out with myself and other (more) helpful people, I have come back to claim my original thesis– though not without a richer understanding of the topic at hand. As became clear in my brief exploration of the topic of community food and agriculture, these issues are critically important to our relationship with the […] […] A last desperate stab at an alternate thesis: I believe that the act of eating lies at the center of our identity. When we eat is a factor of our biology and response to our bodies. How we eat is an expression of our values and our relationships with each other. What we eat defines the very nature of our relationship to the planet we live on. So what if the food system was at the center of our communities? [Read on…] […] Americans, on average, spend 90% of their time in an indoor environment. There are many factors of modern life that play into creating this statistic. One of them, I believe, may be the very form of our built environment. [Read on…] […] |
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