Ecology-based planning. Italian and French experimentations

This paper examines some French and Italian experimentations of green infrastructures’ (GI) construction in relation to their techniques and methodologies. The construction of a multifunctional green infrastructure can lead to the generation of a number of relevant bene fi ts able to face the increasing challenges of climate change and resilience (for example, social, ecological and environmental through the recognition of the concept of ecosystem services) and could ease the achievement of a performance-based approach. This approach, differently from the traditional prescriptive one, helps to attain a better and more fl exible land-use integration. In both countries, GI play an important role in contrasting land take and, for their adaptive and cross-scale nature, they help to generate a res ilient approach to urban plans and projects. Due to their fl exible and site-based nature, GI can be adapted, even if through different methodologies and approaches, both to urban and extra-urban contexts. On one hand, France, through its strong national policy on ecological networks, recognizes them as one of the major planning strategies toward a more sustainable development of territories; on the other hand, Italy has no national policy and Regions still have a hard time integrating them in already existing planning tools. In this perspective, Italian experimentations on GI construction appear to be a simple and sporadic add-on of urban and regional plans

2015 GREAT Day Program

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Flowscapes:

Flowscapes explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridization of the two concepts seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition while allowing spatial design to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. The publication provides perspectives on the subject from design-related disciplines such as architecture, urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture and civil engineering. The book builds upon the multidisciplinary colloquium on landscape infrastructures, that is part of the Flowscapes graduation design studio of Landscape Architecture at the TU Delft.  The authors explore concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design-oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that can guide urban and rural development and have cultural and civic significance. The geographical context of the papers covers Europe, Africa, Asia and Northern America. All contributions in the book are double blind reviewed by experts in the field

PROGRAM and PROCEEDINGS THE NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: 139th Anniversary Year, One Hundred-Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, April 12, 2019, NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2019 7:30 a.m. REGISTRATION OPENS - Lobby of Lecture Wing, Olin Hall 8:00 Aeronautics and Space Science, Session A – Acklie 109 Aeronautics and Space Science, Session B – Acklie 111 Collegiate Academy; Biology, Session B - Olin B Biological and Medical Sciences, Session A - Olin 112 Biological and Medical Sciences, Session B - Smith Callen Conference Center Chemistry and Physics; Chemistry - Olin A 8:00 “Teaching and Learning the Dynamics of Cellular Respiration Using Interactive Computer Simulations” Workshop – Olin 110 9:30 “Life After College: Building Your Resume for the Future” Workshop – Acklie 218 8:25 Collegiate Academy; Chemistry and Physics, Session A – Acklie 007 8:36 Collegiate Academy; Biology, Session A - Olin 111 9:00 Chemistry and Physics; Physics – Acklie 320 9:10 Aeronautics and Space Science, Poster Session – Acklie 109 & 111 10:30 Aeronautics and Space Science, Poster Session – Acklie 109 & 111 11:00 MAIBEN MEMORIAL LECTURE: Dr David Swanson - OLIN B Scholarship and Friend of Science Award announcements 12:00 p.m. LUNCH – WESLEYAN CAFETERIA Round-Table Discussion – “Assessing the Academy: Current Issues and Avenues for Growth” led by Todd Young – Sunflower Room 12:50 Anthropology – Acklie 109 1:00 Applied Science and Technology - Olin 111 Biological and Medical Sciences, Session C - Olin 112 Biological and Medical Sciences, Session D - Smith Callen Conference Center Chemistry and Physics; Chemistry - Olin A Collegiate Academy; Biology, Session B - Olin B Earth Science – Acklie 007 Environmental Sciences – Acklie 111 Teaching of Science and Math – Acklie 218 1:20 Chemistry and Physics; Physics – Acklie 320 4:30 BUSINESS MEETING - OLIN B NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SCIENCE (NATS) The 2019 Fall Conference of the Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science (NATS) will be held at the Younes Conference Center, Kearney, NE, September 19-21, 2019. President: Betsy Barent, Norris Public Schools, Firth, NE President-Elect: Anya Covarrubias, Grand Island Public Schools, Grand Island, NE AFFILIATED SOCIETIES OF THE NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, INC. 1. American Association of Physics Teachers, Nebraska Section Web site: http://www.aapt.org/sections/officers.cfm?section=Nebraska 2. Friends of Loren Eiseley Web site: http://www.eiseley.org/ 3. Lincoln Gem & Mineral Club Web site: http://www.lincolngemmineralclub.org/ 4. Nebraska Chapter, National Council for Geographic Education 5. Nebraska Geological Society Web site: http://www.nebraskageologicalsociety.org Sponsors of a $50 award to the outstanding student paper presented at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Earth Science /Nebraska Chapter, Nat\u27l Council Sections 6. Nebraska Graduate Women in Science 7. Nebraska Junior Academy of Sciences Web site: http://www.nebraskajunioracademyofsciences.org/ 8. Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Web site: http://www.noubirds.org/ 9. Nebraska Psychological Association http://www.nebpsych.org/ 10. Nebraska-Southeast South Dakota Section Mathematical Association of America Web site: http://sections.maa.org/nesesd/ 11. Nebraska Space Grant Consortium Web site: http://www.ne.spacegrant.org

Mundane Multiculture: Belonging as Spatial Practice in Suburban Sydney

Global cities are being reconfigured through multiple transformations. Cities are places of increasing heterogeneity as a result of heightened flows of human mobility, setting the stage for negotiations of strangerhood and intercultural encounter. They are epicentres for new registers of belonging, allegiance and citizenship arising in the context of these broader transitions. Drawing on relational theories of the city and critical readings of urban diversity, this thesis interrogates how multi-ethnic neighbourhoods shape experiences of belonging for migrant inhabitants. It argues that pluralist policies largely attempt to coordinate and contain urban diversity, often leaving yawning fissures between politicised rhetoric and the lived socio-materialities of the city. These processes are particularly evident in the city of Sydney, the preeminent global city in Australia, a ‘nation of immigration’. This study and its analysis offers an alternative to conventional migration studies that privilege the ethnic lens, by applying a place-based approach and a Lefebvrian frame of analysis to residents’ place making practices in a highly diverse, transitional suburb. The research uses urban ethnographic methods, including observation and interviews with migrant residents and local ‘space managers’, to analyse the interactional and sociospatial orders of three suburban public spaces. Drawing on this rich empirical data, the study not only argues that local space is produced at the intersection of spatial practices, regimes of urban governance, and multicultural discourses, but that it is fundamental to understanding migrants’ subjective experience of ‘being at home’ in both local and national space. This approach provides critical insight into the uneven integration of arrivals into collective urban culture, as well as possibilities for generating urban civilities in a unique study of Campsie, New South Wales. If new processes of exclusion are regulating human flows at sovereign borders, it is critically important to also understand how spatial marginalisation unfolds in the intimate spaces of the increasingly diverse and mobile city