Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
100+ episodes exploring climate action in cities and neighbourhoods.
This show provides actionable advice and case studies on:
- Sustainable urban design and placemaking principles.
- How to design cities and neighbourhoods for biodiversity net gain and wildlife.
- Climate adaptation: How to build resilience to climate change in cities.
- Net zero carbon masterplanning and architecture.
- Circular economy: How to minimise waste and emissions in new development.
- Transport: How to transition cities away to sustainable and active travel.
- Regenerative Design: Delivering positive benefits for the environment and communities.
Who is it for? Urban designers, planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, urban ecologists, engineers, transport professionals and urban citizens.
The Green Urbanist podcast is hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, an urban designer and sustainable placemaking consultant.
Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
#47: Primal City (Part 3) - Biophilia and Urban Ecology
Biophilia is about how we as humans have an innate love and connection to other living things. It is no surprise then that spending time in natural environments such as forests, mountains and parks, is extremely beneficial to our mental and physical health. But how can we recreate our natural biophilic habitat in urban areas? Can we make cities good homes for other living things too?
Sources (articles):
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/studies-on-natures-mental-health-benefits-show-massive-western-bias
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049022000263?via%3Dihub
- https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/2020/10/20/parks-and-green-space-does-everyone-feel-welcome/
- https://www.groundwork.org.uk/news-report-finds-severe-inequalities-in-access-to-parks-and-greenspaces-in-communities-across-the-uk/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/10/plants-humans-dont-need-extinction-biodiversity-study
- https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ginkgo-biloba-species-history/
Sources (Books):
- Civilised to Death, Christopher Ryan
- Darwin Comes to Town, Menno Schilthuizen
- Flourish, Michael Pawyln and Sarah Ichioka
- From What Is to What If, Rob Hopkins
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall-Kimmerer
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