Pixels, Plots, and Parcels
Pixels, Plots, and Parcels
Data Issues and Strategies
This chapter uses a building metaphor and the image of a Greek temple façade to describe an empirical strategy for a transition to an ecology of cities using a patch dynamics approach. In the first section the chapter describes some of the critical building blocks: pixels, plots, and parcels. These building blocks are crucial to the second section, the data platform, which provides the foundation to the building. The third section describes the supporting columns that rest on the foundation and support the roof. These columns are four ways of knowing: long-term monitoring, experiments, comparative analyses, and modeling. Finally, there are the research themes that make up the roof. These research themes are constructed from midrange theories from the biophysical and social sciences.
Keywords: an ecology of cities, patch dynamics approach, data platform, research themes, long-term monitoring, experiments, comparative analyses, modeling
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