Tag: Urban Design
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More-than-human Cities: On Urban Design and Nonhuman Agency
Kartik Chugh The modern cities are usually imagined as purified spaces of human existence, a humanist citadel, constructed by humans and for humans alone. The rapid urbanization fueled by capitalist development project proceeds without any regard for nonhumans. In its classical sense, urbanization transforms empty, unproductive wastelands into improved lands through a process called development…
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What Makes Some Birds Urban Exploiters?
By Fizala Tayebulla Keywords: Urban Exploiter, Urbanized Area, Behavior, Trait The growth of urban topography encompasses corresponding shifts of all its associated elements and features – even biodiversity. A question to be asked is, how species characterize themselves within landscapes marked by varying degrees of urbanization? In the subject of Urban Ecology, there are two…