July 18 Tuesday NOON to 1pm at the Center for Environmental Research – Hornsby Bend
- Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
- 2017 Lunchtime Lectures – Understanding Urban Nature: Ecology, Culture, and the American City
- July 2017 Lunchtime Lecture – The Terrestrial City: Greenspace and the Urban Forest
July 20 Thursday NOON to 1pm at One Texas Center 505 Barton Springs Road + South First Street, Room 325
- Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lecture by Kevin M. Anderson
- 2016 Lunchtime Lectures – The Unity of Nature: The Creation, Discovery, and End of Nature
- July 2017 Lunchtime Lecture – The Terrestrial City: Greenspace and the Urban Forest
Emerging from water to land, narratives of urban nature typically become stories about plants. Urban environmental managers, landscape architects, and urban planners talk of “greenspace,” “greenways,” and the “urban forest.” For an urban ecologist, the terrestrial city is habitat created by the colonial nesting mammal, Homo sapiens. But, “urban wildlife” also inhabits the terrestrial city alongside humans. This lecture will examine these various perspectives on urban terrestrial habitats and the flora and fauna that inhabit urban landscapes.