Reconnecting Cities, People, and Nature makes the case that urban designers must work across human, ecological, and disciplinary boundaries — and then gives them twenty concrete exercises to begin doing exactly that.
About This Book
The dominant model of city-making has long treated the built and natural environments as separate concerns. This compact but urgent book dismantles that assumption, arguing that cities function as complex biotopes in which human and non-human actors are inextricably entangled. Rather than offering abstract theory, it translates its ecological urbanism position into twenty design exercises — practical provocations that ask urban designers to imagine, test, and prototype a different kind of city. The result is a working tool as much as a manifesto, aimed at practitioners and students who want to move beyond sustainability rhetoric toward genuine transformation of the urban landscape.
Key Features
- 128 pages of design exercises and urban ecology frameworks
- Authors: Victor Muñoz Sanz and Robbert Jan van der Veen
- Twenty design exercises exploring the city as a complex biotope
- Published by Birkhäuser, ISBN 9783035628043
What You'll Discover
- How collaborative, cross-disciplinary design practice can reframe the city as a living social and natural ecosystem
- The concept of the city as biotope — a framework that places non-human actors alongside humans as co-inhabitants of urban space
- Twenty thought-provoking exercises that move ecological urbanism from principle to design action
- How allied disciplines outside architecture and urban design can be drawn into the work of reshaping sustainable cities
About the Author
Victor Muñoz Sanz and Robbert Jan van der Veen are the authors of this collaboration, published by Birkhäuser. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 148 x 210 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035628043
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Urban designers, landscape architects, and students working at the intersection of ecological design, sustainable urbanism, and interdisciplinary city-making.