Conference: ECOLOGY AND URBANISM
25 November 2010
The ECOLOGY AND URBANISM conference focuses on the new and different kinds of urban planning and design practices that are emerging at the interface between ecology and urbanism. Ecology is interpreted as the natural environment and its potential to act as a carrier for urban planning and design solutions. The conference brings together practitioners and academics involved in environmental planning and design and discusses the implications ecologically responsive methods and practices might have for contemporary urbanism.
Discussions evolve around the following three partly overlapping topics:
1. What new kinds of practices within urban planning and design are emerging as a response to the increased attention given to ecology?
2. To what extent can the natural environment act as an organizing basis for urban design solutions?
3. How do careful readings of the natural environment cater for an urbanism that connects to the locality and the site specifics?
