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Lecture |
INTRODUCTION |
| 14-Jan |
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Introduction |
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| 16-Jan |
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Ecologists Define Urban Ecology
Franz Rebele. 1994. Urban
ecology and special features of urban ecosystems. Global Ecology
and Biogeography Letters 4:173-187.
Nancy B. Grimm, J.M. Grove, Pickett, S.T.A., and C.L.
Redman. 2000. Integrated
approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems. BioScience 571-584.
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| 23-Jan |
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Social Scientists Define Urban Ecology
Cronon, William. “Kennecott Journey: The Paths out
of Town” in Under an Open Sky:
Rethinking America’s
Western Past (W.W. Norton, 1992)
Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw. “Urban
Political Ecology: Politicizing the Production of Urban Natures“ pgs.
1-20 in Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw (eds.), In
the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics
of Urban Metabolism (New York: Routledge, 2006). |
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NICHES: ORGANISMS AND HABITATS |
| 28-Jan |
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Urban Niches
Case TJ, Bolger DT, Petren K. 1994. Invasions
and competitive displacement among house geckos in the tropical
Pacific.
Ecology 75:464-477.
Kenneth Petren; Douglas T. Bolger; Ted J. Case. 1993. Mechanisms
in the Competitive Success of an Invading Sexual Gecko over
an Asexual Native (in Reports). Science 259:354-358. |
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| 30-Jan |
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What is Urban (and to whom?)
J.T. Lundholm and A. Marlin. 2006. Habitat
origins and microhabitat preferences of urban plant species. Urban
Ecosystems 9:139-159.
N.E. Mcintyre, K. Knowles-Yanez, and D. Hope. 2000. Urban
ecology as an interdisciplinary field: differences in the
use of “urban” between the social and natural
sciences. Urban Ecosystems 4:5-24. |
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| 4-Feb |
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Urban Plants
D. Hope et al. 2003. Socioeconomics
drive urban plant diversity.
PNAS 100:8788-8792.
R.A. Sanders. 1984. Some
determinants of urban forest structure.
Urban Ecology 8:13-27. |
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| 6-Feb |
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Urban Wildlife
S. DeStefano and R. D. Deblinger. 2005. Wildlife
as valuable natural resources vs. intolerable pests: a suburban
wildlife management model. Urban Ecosystems 8:179-190.
Mike Davis, “Maneaters of the Sierra Madre” In Ecology
of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
(Henry Holt, 1998) |
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| 11-Feb |
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Urban Bacteria
A.D. Read, M. Hudgins and P. Phillips. 2001. Aerobic
landfill test cells and their implications for sustainable waste disposal.
The Geographic Journal 167:235-247.
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy. Chapters 4 & 5 in Rubbish:
The Archeology of Garbage (HarperCollins, 1992). |
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| 13-Feb |
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Video |
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| 18 Feb |
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Lawns
Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds,
and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007) |
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| Feb 20 |
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Theme Parks, Zoos, and Malls
Susan G. Davis. “Touch the Magic,” in William Cronon (ed.) Uncommon
Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (W.W. Norton, 1995), pgs. 204-217.
Jennifer Price, “Looking for Nature at the Mall: A field guide to the Nature Company” in William Cronon (ed.) Uncommon
Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (W.W. Norton, 1995), pgs. 186-203.
Kay Anderson. 1995. Culture
and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of ‘human’ geography. Trans.
Inst. Br. Geogr. 20:275-294. |
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ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
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| Feb 25 |
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Island Biogeography
Soulé, M.E. 1991. Land use
planning and wildlife maintenance: guidelines for conserving wildlife in an
urban landscape. Journal
of the American Planning Association 57:313-323.
S.K. Collinge. 1996. Ecological
consequences of habitat fragmentation: implications for landscape architecture
and planning. Landscape
and Urban Planning 36:59-77.
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| Feb 27 |
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How Fragmentation Occurs
Mike Davis, “How Eden Lost its Garden” In Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Henry Holt, 1998)
Peterson, Jon A. 1985. “The
Evolution of Public Open Space in American Cities,” Journal of Urban History 12:75-88.
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| Mar 3 |
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Are Parks Natural?
Anne Whiston Spirn, “Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted” in William Cronon (ed.) Uncommon
Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (W.W. Norton, 1995).
Matthew Gandy. “Symbolic Order and the Urban Pastoral” in Concrete
and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT, 2002). |
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| Mar 5 |
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Fragmentation and Disease
J. Van Buskirk and R.S. Ostfield. 1995. Controlling
Lyme disease by modifying the density and species composition of tick hosts. Ecological
Applications 5:1133-1140.
D.H. Frank, D. Fish and F.H. Moy. 1998. Landscape
features associated with lyme disease risk in a suburban residential environment. Landscape Ecology 13:27-36.
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| Mar 10 |
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Disturbance, Succession and Restoration
Seth R. Reice, Chapters 1-3, The Silver Lining: The Benefits of Natural Disasters (Princeton, 2001)
Mike Davis, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” in Ecology of Fear |
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| Mar 12 |
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Disturbance, Succession and Restoration in Chicago Parks
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| Group 1 |
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Steve Packard. 1988. Just a few oddball species: Restoration and the
rediscovery of the tallgrass savanna. Restoration
and Management Notes 6(1):13-22. |
| Group 2 |
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Jon Mendelson, S.P. Aultz and J.D. Mendelson. 1992. Carving up the woods:
Savanna restoration in Northeastern Illinois. Restoration
and Management Notes 10(2):127-131. |
| Group 3 |
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Steve Packard. 1993. Restoring oak ecosystems. The Savannas and woodlands
of the midwest are providing an arena for an emerging debate about the
nature of these ecosystems–and of nature itself. Restoration
and Management Notes 11(1):5-16. |
| All |
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Reid M. Helford, 1999. Rediscovering
the Presettlement Landscape: Making the Oak Savanna Ecosystem "Real". Science,
Technology, & Human
Values 24:55-79.
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| 17 Mar |
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Spring Break |
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| 24 Mar |
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Succession and Restoration on a Landfill
Steven E. Clemants and Steven N. Handel. 2006. Restoring
Urban Ecology: The New York–New Jersey Metropolitan Area. Pgs.127-140 in Rutherford Platt (ed.), The
Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City. University of Massachusetts Press.
Rebecca Krinke. 2002. Fresh Ideas? Have the winning entries in a recent competition provided a convincing vision for transforming a closed landfill? Landscape
Architecture 92(6):76-85.
Phillip Nobel. 2002. The Other Environmental Crisis: Are the winning entries to the Fresh Kills competition avant-garde–or just froufrou? Landscape
Architecture 92(6):128-127.
See landscape plans for Fresh Kills restoration at:
http://nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/fkl2_1.shtml |
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ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT AND SUSTAINABILITY
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| 26 Mar |
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Ecological Footprint
Carl Folke, A. Jansson, J. Larsson and R. Costanza. 1997. Ecosystem appropriation by cities. Ambio 26:167-172.
R.L. Eaton, G.P. Hammond and J. Laurie. 2007. Footprints
on the landscape: An environmental appraisal of urban and rural living in the
developed world.
Landscape and Urban Planning 83:13-28.
M.A. Luck, G. Darrel Jenerett, J. Wu, and N.B. Grimm. 2001. The
urban funnel model and the spatially heterogeneous ecological footprint. Ecosystems 4:782-796.
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| 31 Mar |
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Video |
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| 2 Apr |
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Food
William Cronon. Chapters 1,2,3,5 in Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the
Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991). |
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| 7 Apr |
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Water
Video “Cadillac Desert”
Matthew Gandy. “Water, Space, and Power” in Concrete and
Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT, 2002). |
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| 9 Apr |
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Chicago
William Cronon. Chapters 6,7,8 in Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the
Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991). |
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| 14 Apr |
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Video |
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| 16 Apr |
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San Francisco
Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power,
Earthly Ruin (University
of California 1999) Preface, Introduction, Part 1. Skim Part 2. Part
3. |
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| 21 Apr |
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Health
Matthew Gandy. “Rustbelt Ecology” in Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT, 2002).
Sandra Steingraber. “Fire” in Living Downstream: An ecologist looks at cancer and the environment (Addison Wesley, 1997) |
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN IN CHICAGO
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| 23 Apr |
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Prairie Crossing
Frank Edgerton Martin. 1985. Riverside revisited? Landscape
Architecture 85(7):56-59.
Jeffrey Zimmerman. 2001. The “Nature” of urbanism on the new urbanist frontier: sustainable development, or defense of the suburban dream? Urban
Geography 22:249-267.
Rene C. Kane. 2003. Prairie Flower. Landscape
Architecture 93(10):122-131, 156-159. |
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| 28 Apr |
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Calumet
City of Chicago, Calumet Area Land Use Plan, 2005.
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/Calumet_Area_Land_Use_Plan.pdf
City of Chicago, Calumet Design Guidelines, 2005
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/Calumet_Design_Guidelines.pdf |
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| 30 Apr |
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Conclusion |
