Episode description
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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