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Kate Orff, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology.

In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.

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July 12, 2016
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"Cities have multiple connections to the biosphere.Today they are all negative, destructive. This book shows us in great detailand with splendid clarity how we can turn them positive. It goes well beyondstandard solutions as it brilliantly explores the biosphere and makes discoveries."
- Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University and author of Expulsions

"[This book is] a call to action on urban ecology and climate change, with landscape as the principal medium. Kate Orff's Toward an Urban Ecology is a presentation of ground-breaking projects by SCAPE, and the principles and strategies that underlie their success. Human societies cannot successfully mitigate and adapt to the stresses of climate change without a new state of mind, and landscape architects and artists have an essential role to play....required reading for landscape architects."
- Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of The Granite Garden

About the Author

Kate Orff’s activist and visionary work on design for climate dynamics has been shared and developed in collaboration with arts institutions, governments, and scholars worldwide. Since founding the New York-based landscape architecture and urban design firm SCAPE, Kate Orff has advanced projects of all scales: from award-winning, harbor-wide planning efforts and groundbreaking work for the NYC Coastal Protection Plan, to on-the-ground ecological investigations such as mussel pilot installations in the Gowanus Bay. She is the Director of the Urban Design Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She joined the MacArthur Fellowship Program – Class of 2017, as the first landscape architect in the Foundation’s 36 year history to be honored with the award. Kate’s work bridges design, science, and community participation to redefine the role of the landscape architect in the age of climate change. She is coauthor, with Richard Misrach, of Petrochemical America (2012) and coeditor and author of the book Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park (2011). She lives in Forest Hills, New York.

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Publisher : The Monacelli Press; Illustrated edition (July 12, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 276 pages
ISBN-10 : 1580934366
ISBN-13 : 978-1580934367
Item Weight : 2.16 pounds
Dimensions : 8.1 x 1.1 x 10.4 inches

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Lrjohn3

The way forward for landscape architecture

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017

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Toward an Urban Ecology is an excellent book that highlights an oft forgotten yet critical aspect of urban design, landscape architecture and ecological urbanism which is advocacy. The case study projects written about hear touch on a number of important national and global topics and describe SCAPE innovative and thoughtful approaches to each project with a distinct focus on place and as advocates who truly pour themselves into their work.

The narrative is easy to dive into and the illustrations and photos are excellent.

I have bought a number of copies for collaborators and highly suggest you do the same!

Excellent book!

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Theresa Genay

A coffee table book for SCAPE with limited use for private readers

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2019

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Cool idea, but felt more it belonged in the lobby at SCAPE than on a shelf in a private home. Kind of promotional and aspiration. I learned about interesting projects, like Safari 6 on New York City's subway line and an educational forest development in Greenville, South Carolina...only to realize that these project and others were either short-lived or never realized. It's disappointing that a group as knowledgeable as SCAPE (with a MacArthur recipient at the helm) hasn't been able to implement many of their projects. Felt more promotional for them than informative for a third-party, ecologically interested audience.

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H. Kongsgaard

SCAPE: Toward an Urban Ecology

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017

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This extraordinary and timely book situates landscape architecture within the emergent field of urban ecology, examining the relevance of design to urbanism in an era of unprecedented environmental transformation. Part essay, part monograph, the book is a visual expose of the work of Kate Orff and SCAPE over the past 10+ years—at once a call to action and a brilliantly argued contribution to the design literature on societal change.

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zimk

Wonderful examples of how to apply Landscape Ecology

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020

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Awesome book!!!

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Alandete

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2018

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Nice!

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Sara Dabbs

I found this beautiful book insightful and inspiring

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017

Lavishly illustrated, I found this beautiful book insightful and inspiring. As Braungart & McDonough's Cradle-to-Cradle changed the way I looked at product design and consumerism, SCAPE's Toward an Urban Ecology transformed the way I view urban landscapes and the role of nature and ecology in urban development and the fight against climate change. Highly recommend for designers of all kinds, urban planners, nature lovers, environmentalists, urbanists, and anyone interested in reimagining the future of urban development.

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Zachary Youngerman

A New Hope

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017

The overarching feeling of reading this book is excitement: SCAPE's projects are imaginative and hopeful - but not wacky - grounded in a democratic ethos of public engagement, a reverie for the diversity of the natural world, and moral responsibility for stewardship and self preservation in an age of "shifting baselines." The writing is floral and evocative. There's a linguistic pace that seems to reflect the drive of Orff's work, too: Ideas are important for understanding and synthesizing the world to create something better, but not purely as conceptual journeys. The book does describe very real journeys to and possibilities to a better future. Occasionally, in smaller projects highlighted in two-page spreads, there's a distance between the firm's ambition for humanity and the scale of intervention. Or you can take that as a "there are no small parts" statement on the role of designers and practitioners. As a document, the book is beautiful, balanced between image and text. The diversity of images and authors (interviews, guests) makes it feel contemporary - aware of our multi-media, multi-app world in a way that enriches the reader experience. There's no sacrifice to depth. The book has stayed on my bedside table and I return to it often.

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Yifan Xing

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017

This book summarizes the core advocacy idea of Kate and how it leads the practices of SCAPE.
"Towards an Urban Ecology is part monograph, part manual, part manifesto. Its objective is to reconceive urban landscape design as a form of activism, within which landscape itself is both a frame and a solution." SCAPE's work aspires to work "toward a collaborative, community-stewardship-driven methodology that acknowledges change and uncertainty."

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Bernard Capelle

Design for Nature

Reviewed in France on June 29, 2018

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Kate Orff dépasse son mentor Ian McHarg (Design with Nature ndlr) en ceci que la planète arrive à son niveau de saturation extrême et de perte de contrôle & que cette nouvelle génération d'architectes paysagistes "activistes de la nature" apporte un ensemble d'expertises croisées qui transcendent les projets urbains en manifestes vivants au service de la nature. C'est certainement la voie à suivre, avec les spécificités de chaque région et dans la continuation de cette profession qui est la combinaison de deux directions; l'architecture (de paysage) tel un art appliqué, et les prérogatives du contexte paysager vivant. A lire, à relire et à appliquer.

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Delforge Cécile

Livre très intéressant

Reviewed in France on February 4, 2019

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Ce livre est très complet, chaque projet est bien expliqué, détaillé et imagé. On y découvre tous les objectifs du bureau d'étude SCAPE, leurs intentions, leurs prises de position notamment dans le domaine de l'écologie. Je recommande à 100% cet ouvrage à tous les architectes paysagistes et urbanistes et à tous les curieux également! Bonne lecture...

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Shivee Kashyap

Five Stars

Reviewed in India on February 28, 2018

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very interesting and practical approach.👌

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