Assigned Readings

Green & Haines, Ch. 9; Wheeler & Beatley, Part II, sections on Land use and urban design and Urban ecology and restoration

Ben-Zadok, E. (2006) Solid theory and soft implementation in policy design: Florida compact development policies. International Planning Studies 11(1), 59-81.

Kitzes, J., Wackernagel, M. Loh, J., Peller, A. et al. (2008) Shrink and share: humanity's present and future ecological footpring. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363 (1491), 467-475.

Class Preparation

During this portion of the semester you are expected to serve as the "resident expert" and group discussion leader for one topical area. We will cover three topical areas this week. If you are the designated expert for the week, prepare the usual summary for your colleagues. Include in your discussion all of the required readings for your topic. Note that you are expected to provide the usual annotated bibliography for these and other references that you find. Be thorough and complete. You are also expected to lead the discussion in class -- about 45 minutes of discussion. I strongly encourage you to prepare a few introductory comments, based on your summary, and to develop questions that you can pose to us as a group to lead the discussion.

Urban Ecology

Head, L. & Muir, P. (2006) Edges of connection: reconceptualising the human role in urban biogeography. Australian Geographer 37(1), 87-101.

Pautasso, M. & McKinney, M.L. (2007) The botanist effect revisited: Plant species richness, county area, and human population size in the United States. Conservation Biology 21(5), 1333-1340.

von der Lippe, M. 7 Kowarik, I. (2008) Do cities export biodiversity? Traffic as dispersal vector across urban-rural gradients. Diversity & Distributions 14(1), 18-25.

Restoration

Davidson, M. (2007) Gentrification as global habitat: A process of class formation or corporate creation? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32(4), 490-506.

Gonzalez, G.A. (2005) The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Environmental or economic sustainability? Polity 97(4), 466-490.

Iannuzzi, T.J. & Ludwig, D./F. (2005) An interdisciplinary investigation of ecological history and environmental restoration objectives in an urban landscape. Ecological Restoration 23(3), 157-166.

Urban Design

Colding, J., Lundberg, J. & Folke, C. (2006) Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management. Ambio 35(5), 237-244.

Milder, J.C. (2007) A framework for understanding conservation development and its ecological implications. BioScience 57(9), 757-767.

Oberndorfer, E., Lundholm, J., Bass, B. et al. (2007) Green roofs as urban ecosystems: Ecological structures, functions and services. BioScience 57(10), 823-833.

Pickett, S.T.A. & Cadenasso, M.L. (2008) Linking ecological and built components of urban mosaics: An open cycle of ecological design. Journal of Ecology 96(1), 8-12.

Due Today

Part 3 of Group Project