The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
J. Morgan Grove, Mary Cadenasso, Steward Pickett, and Gary Machlis
Abstract
The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more. This book draws on two decades of pioneering social and ecological studies in Baltimore to propose a new way to think about cities and their social, political, and ecological complexity that will apply in many different parts o ... More
Keywords: urban century, urban expansion, human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate change, sea-level change, Baltimore
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300101133 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300101133.001.0001 |
