urban ecosystems

Ray Tomalty brings us all inside the ecosystem. The emerging “ecology of cities” considers urban centres as ecosystems in themselves. His is an approach that will involve not just ecologists, but hydrologists, engineers, landscape architects, sociologists – you get the picture.

"URBAN SUSTAINABILITY" is one of those phrases that many people use but no one can concretely define. It may, however, be this plasticity that has allowed the concept to morph over the 20 years or so that we’ve been struggling to implement it. ...