189R_Biourbanism: Cities as nature – a resilience model for anthromes (book summary)
What is The Future for Cities?
English - January 29, 2024 22:00 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MBSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Are you interested in understanding cities are nature?
Summary of the book titled Biourbanism: Cities as nature – a resilience model for anthromes from 2022 by Adrian McGregor, published by Biourbanism Publishing.
This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Adrian McGregor, talking about biourbanism in episode 190.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how cities can be translated as part of nature. This book gives a new pathway for cities to decarbonise and increase their resilience to the climate crises.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Cities, responsible for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, have the potential to be central in addressing the climate emergency.
The biourbanism model views cities as dynamic ecosystems, emphasizing the harmonious integration of various systems like food, water, energy, and technology to promote urban resilience and prosperity.
The book proposes a paradigm shift in urban planning, advocating for cities to be designed as extensions of the natural world, focusing on ecological sustainability and human-nature connectivity.
Check out the book through this link.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.178R - Brighter: Optimism, progress and the future of environmentalism (book summary);
No.180 - Interview with Ben Vass about cities being the emergent property of urban agents interacting with each other and their environment;
You can find the transcript through this link.
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I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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