Wednesday NOON to 1pm at The PARD Senior Activity Center-Lamar 29th St + 2874 Shoal Crest Ave, South Room
- Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
- 2017 Lunchtime Lectures – Understanding Urban Nature: Ecology, Culture, and the American City
- April 2017 Lunchtime Lecture –The Elemental City: Cycles, Services, and Urban Ecology
- A city is a built landscape designed to support dense populations of humans. Urban ecologists, engineers, architects, and environmental managers approach urban nature as a functional component of the urban landscape. They study the city as an ecosystem for scientific understanding of how cities function ecologically and then apply that understanding to urban environmental management. In this narrative, the “metabolism” of the city is measurable as flows of water, waste, and elements through pipes and cycles. Urban ecosystem cycles are then seen as providing ecological services that can be managed as a sustainable urban metabolism. This lecture will examine this narrative of the Elemental City and urban ecology.