Ecologies Design : Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: towards an ecologies design practice -- Part 1 Biological ecologies design and regeneration -- 2 Introduction: a shifting paradigm in ecologically focused design -- 3 Engaging with life: the developmental practice of regenerative development and design -- 4 Designing for living environments using regenerative development: a case study of The Paddock -- 5 The paradox of metrics: setting goals for regenerative design and development -- 6 Ecological design as the biointegration of a set of 'infrastructures': the 'quatrobrid' constructed ecosystem -- 7 Creating and restoring urban ecologies: case studies in China -- 8 Towards wildlife-supportive green space design in metropolitan areas: lessons from an experimental study -- 9 The new design with nature -- 10 Biomimicry: an opportunity for buildings to relate to place -- 11 The emergence of biophilic design and planning: re-envisioning cities and city life -- Part 2 Documenting social ecologies -- 12 Introduction: how to document urban/landscape assemblages -- 13 City boids: diagramming molecular urbanism -- 14 Why would we spend time drawing with people doing their washing in a Chinese village? -- 15 Object-led interview: documenting geographical ideas -- 16 Mapping informal settlements: a process for action -- 17 Ethnographic drawings and the benefits of using a sketchbook for fieldwork -- 18 A landscape anthropology of green in Bahrain -- 19 Valparaiso Publico: a graphic inventory of urban spaces in a Chilean city -- 20 Being with Hellersdorf: performative counter-mapping as a reflexive practice between architecture and anthropology -- 21 The happy city: an actor-network-theory manifesto.

22 The aesthetics of documenting urban and landscape assemblages -- Part 3 Ecologies design practices -- 23 Introduction: on the need for and potentials of ecological design practice -- 24 Indigenous ecological design -- 25 Ngāi Tūhoe's Te Kura Whare: our living building -- 26 Design in relationship with an ecological entity -- 27 On the rise: a coastal planning strategy for adaptation in response to climate change -- 28 There are no sustainable buildings without sustainable people -- 29 Labour, ecology, and architecture -- 30 Integrating design teaching and practices -- 31 Stranded assets -- 32 (Hybrid) architecture in and over time -- 33 Conclusion: a call to ecologies design action -- Index.

Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both biological and social, in multi-disciplinary spatial design contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics and professionals within ecology and design.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.