Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Lessons from the World’s Emerging Biophilic Cities
Abstract The presence of nature—imagining buildings, neighborhoods, and cities immersed in nature—helps to create a positive image of places we will want to live in the future. Trees, native vegetation, food-producing gardens, and abundant contact with flora and fauna feed our need for wonder and meaning, and these are qualities and conditions at the core of biophilic design and planning. I frequently say that, in the language and practice of biophilic cities, the philic is as important as the bio; that is, the advantage of this language is that it embeds a value statement about the need for contact with the natural world, and our innate connections with and caring for it. It is not a neutral word, and not simply a factual statement about the benefits and services provided by nature (a meaning that tends to be conveyed by commonly used terms such as green infrastructure).
Lessons from the World’s Emerging Biophilic Cities
Abstract The presence of nature—imagining buildings, neighborhoods, and cities immersed in nature—helps to create a positive image of places we will want to live in the future. Trees, native vegetation, food-producing gardens, and abundant contact with flora and fauna feed our need for wonder and meaning, and these are qualities and conditions at the core of biophilic design and planning. I frequently say that, in the language and practice of biophilic cities, the philic is as important as the bio; that is, the advantage of this language is that it embeds a value statement about the need for contact with the natural world, and our innate connections with and caring for it. It is not a neutral word, and not simply a factual statement about the benefits and services provided by nature (a meaning that tends to be conveyed by commonly used terms such as green infrastructure).
Lessons from the World’s Emerging Biophilic Cities
Beatley, Timothy (Autor:in)
01.01.2016
17 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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