Urban ecology of urban projects
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2016
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This paper launches a discussion about the implementation of a tool to support urban projects whose nature is an integral part. The development of this tool contains both elements of specific interventions in urban areas based on valuable choices from urban ecology and plural expertise (ecology, botany, hydrology, landscape, etc.) as well as normative thoughts extended to civil and decision-making spheres. A reference table has been developed to operationalize urban ecology and to objectify the minimum criteria to register a project in a transversal vision of habitability of urban spaces. Amplification of environmental concerns - they involve major degradation affecting communities (loss of biodiversity, pollution, etc.), or the scarcity of resources distributed unevenly in space - we actually start thinking about interventions specific urban based on value choices, as well as normative reflections. The landscaped some urban environmental conflicts and mobilizations express a new strategy to try to transform the public space. Beyond the purely aesthetic dimension, they also reflect an evolution of representations of habitability. Also a request for reconnection to the natural world, these conflicts and requests depict a growing awareness of environmental issues in the public arena and among those, that of nature in urban areas.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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