Editorial—On the role of the humanities in urban ecology: The case of St. Petersburg

May, Rachel

doi:10.1023/b:ueco.0000020168.12869.45

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“…, Hough 1995;Nasauer 1995;Spirn 1984), geography (e.g., Baun 2005;Kaika 2005;Robbins and Sharp 2003;Davis 1998;Swyngedouw 1996;Zimmerer 1994;Williams 1973), anthropology (e.g., Redman 2005Redman and Kinzig 2003) and environmental and political history (e.g., Gandy 2002;Klingle 2001;May 2004;McNeill 2000;Melosi 2000;Cronon 1991Cronon , 1996 was also not included in the bibliometric analysis. Although not selfdefined as urban ecological research, this scholarship explores the intersections of humannature relationships in built environments across temporal and spatial scales.…”

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Response to Young and Wolf: goal attainment in urban ecology research

2007

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Our critique focuses on the poorly defined key concepts, methodological inconsistencies, circular research design, and over-reaching substantive claims made by Young and Wolf. We suggest that Young and Wolf have provided an assessment of the Urban Ecosystems journal, not of urban ecology as a field. We conclude by identifying questions to guide a bibliometric analysis that focuses on a collaborative and interdisciplinary future of urban ecology (how are participating disciplines contributing to urban ecological research and scholarship; what theories and conceptual frameworks are being used, and how are these theories being tested and modified; and what mixed methodologies are being developed to collect data to address complex urban issues that are inherently interdisciplinary). We take seriously Young and Wolf's call for a "fundamental discussion as to if and how the intentions of the field have been or need to be updated" and argue that such a discussion requires a more inclusive, rigorous, and meaningful identification of the "core" of urban ecology literature than provided.

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Section: Item 3: Methodological Inconsistencies and Problemsmentioning

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Response to Young and Wolf: goal attainment in urban ecology research

2007

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“…Tracing the development, dormancy and resurgence of the Olmsted plan over 100 years illustrates the challenges and adaptive approaches that accompany long-term planning efforts. May (2004) emphasizes the influential power of ideology espoused by elites in high society on city development while Rozenzweig (1983) emphasizes the necessity of acknowledging citizen influence on the design and development of urban landscapes. Our research incorporates both of these perspectives.…”

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“…Within natural science research, urban ecology promotes the re-integration of humans into researching the ecology of urban systems (May 2004;Alberti et al 2003;Pickett et al 2001;Grimm et al 2000). Much of the natural science research has defined urban areas as "ecosystems" without explicitly acknowledging the influence of humans on the biophysical landscape (McIntyre et al 2000).…”

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“…Although, most urban scholars acknowledge the importance of history and culture, few recognize the influence of historical contingencies on the social and ecological patterns that emerge in urban systems. May (2004) explicitly incorporates a humanistic approach into an urban ecological framework, and articulates the influence of historical conditions and cultural practices in the development of an urban area. Building upon her work, we expand this urban ecological framework to incorporate methods of historical analysis for exploring how the interactions between politics, economics, and ideologies have influenced park planning and development over time.…”

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Place-based urban ecology: A century of park planning in Seattle

2006

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This research responds to calls from within the field of urban ecology to explicitly incorporate humanities-based research in order to achieve robust interdisciplinarity. Our research provides an example of a place-based urban ecological analysis. We use this framework to analyze over a century of park planning and development within the city of Seattle. We identify four eras of park planning that are linked by a comprehensive 100-year park plan. This case study examines how the political, cultural, and economic aspects of park planning have produced and been influenced by long-term trends and historical contingencies. This research also offers practical insights for effective contemporary urban planning, emphasizing the need for flexible and adaptive long-term plans when confronted with unpredictable events, emerging political arrangements, changing cultural priorities, and shifting fiscal climates.

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“…Even though history and culture play an important role in a city's urbanistic layout (May 2004), only multidisciplinary methods offer adequate solutions, as certain recent studies demonstrate (Grimm and Redman 2004). Studying a city as an ecosystem affords clarification of various aspects in this environment.…”

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Notes on the evolution and organization of the urban ecosystem

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2006

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The continual spread of human settlements over the world's surface has transformed the natural environment on a global scale. Human's intervention has changed primary ecosystems (protoecosystems or euecosystems) into anthropoecosystems. The spread of urban ecosystems, cultivated surfaces (agroecosystems), and various areas differentiated by their level of anthropization has facilitated the progressive reduction of euecosystems. The evolution of urban areas over the course of history with transformations of cities and surrounding territory, has created very complex mosaics. A proper study of the city, drawing together historical, cultural, social, and other factors, as well as abiotic ones (urban climate, soil, water, air), requires appropriate, uniform terminology for expressing the complex relationships existing among these factors. We therefore propose that the city (or metropolis) be considered as a set of ecosystems, a "synecosystem". The entire urban area should be termed a "synbiotope". It is divided into numerous partial biotopes (macro-, meso-and microbiotopes), the result of modifications wrought through the historical and cultural vicissitudes of the human population. Urban biotopes host not only humans, but also a characteristic vegetable and animal component, the "biosyncoenosis", formed of numerous plant and animal communities, selected on the basis of the environmental conditions of the individual biotopes, which differ from each other in structure, dynamics, age, and position in the urban space. This terminology should facilitate study of the biotic component and its connection to the urban territory, as well as interpretation of results obtained in the different disciplines in terms of the human population's quality of life.

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Editorial—On the role of the humanities in urban ecology: The case of St. Petersburg

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Response to Young and Wolf: goal attainment in urban ecology research

Response to Young and Wolf: goal attainment in urban ecology research

Place-based urban ecology: A century of park planning in Seattle

Notes on the evolution and organization of the urban ecosystem

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