Selected Publications by Steward T. Pickett

Cadenasso MLPickett STA.  2018.  Situating Sustainability from an Ecological Science Perspective: Ecosystem Services, Resilience, and Environmental JusticeSustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power. :29-52.

Grove J MOgden LPickett STABoone CGBuckley GLLocke DHLord CHall B.  2017.  The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in BaltimoreAnnals of the American Association of Geographers. :1-14.

Wang JZhou WPickett STAYu WLi W.  2019.  A multiscale analysis of urbanization effects on ecosystem services supply in an urban megaregionScience of The Total Environment. 662:824-833.

Pickett STABrush GSFelson AJMcGrath BGrove J MNilon CHSzlavecz KSwan CSWarren PS.  2012.  Understanding and Working with Urban Biodiversity: The Baltimore Ecosystem Study. CityGreen. 4:68-77.

Rademacher ACadenasso MLPickett STA.  2019.  From feedbacks to coproduction: toward an integrated conceptual framework for urban ecosystemsUrban Ecosystems. 22(1):65-76.

Selected Publications by Frederick Steiner

Steiner, Frederick, “The Ecological Wisdom of Plan-Making,” Journal of Urban Management, Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2018):124-130

Steiner, Frederick. 2018. Making Plans: How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Frederick Steiner, George Thompson, and Armando Carbonell, editors. Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2016).

Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner. Urban Ecological Design (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2011).

Frederick Steiner. Design for a Vulnerable Planet (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture) (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011).

Frederick Steiner. The Living Landscape: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning (second edition) (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008).

Frederick Steiner and Kent Butler, editors. Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition (Ramsey/Sleeper Architectural Graphic Standards Series) (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2006).

Frederick Steiner, editor. The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006).

Selected Publications by Katherine Lieberknecht

Robert F. Young & Katherine Lieberknecht. “From smart cities to wise cities: ecological wisdom as a basis for sustainable urban development.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2018 DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1484343

Lieberknecht, Katherine. “Ecowisdom and Water in Human Settlements.” Ecological Wisdom. Ed. Bo Yang and Robert Frederick Young. M. Last. Singapore: Springer, 2019. 111-123.

Other publications

Ahern, J., Cilliers, S., and Niemelä, J. (2014). The concept of ecosystem services in adaptive urban planning and design: a framework for supporting innovation. Landsc. Urban Plan. 125, 254–259. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.

Weller, R., Hoch, Claire, & Huang, C. (2017).Atlas for the end of the world.〈http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/〉.F. SteinerJournal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 124–130130

Young, R. 2016b. “Modernity, Postmodernity, and Ecological Wisdom: Towards A New Framework for Landscape and Urban Planning.” Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning 155: 91–99.

Wang, X., and W. Xiang. 2016. “Ecological Wisdom for Urban Sustainability: Doing real and Permanent Good in Ecological Practice.” Landscape and Urban Planning 155:1–2.

References and resources from David Yocca’s article “Chicago: Ecology in Urban Planning at the Regional Scale.

City of Chicago Sustainable Development Policy

Chicago DOT- Sustainable Urban Infrastructure guidelines

Chicago Park District- Natural Areas

Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Forest Preserve District of DuPage County

Forest Preserve District of Kane County

Forest Preserve District of Kendall County

Lake County Forest Preserves

McHenry County Conservation District

Forest Preserve District of Will County

Conservation Research Institute

Conservation Foundation

Evolution of the Chicago Landscape: Population Dynamics, Economic Development, and Land Use Change

From the Ashes: How Burning Our Natural Areas Bolsters Them

Forest Foresight: Who Created The Cook County Forest Preserves?

Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge

Lessons Learned from Chicago Wilderness

Morton Arboretum- Schulenberg Prairie

Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Prairie Crossing Conservation Community

Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It?

References, resources and additional reading from Jessica Hardesty Norris’ article “Equity in Urban Ecological Planning”

Dooling, S.  2009. Ecological gentrification: a research agenda exploring justice in the city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33. 3, 621– 39.

Douglas, Leah. 2017. African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/african-americans-have-lost-acres/

Wolch, J. R., J. Byrne, J. P. Newell, 2014. Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough.’ Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol 125: 234-244.

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It.  Mindy Fullilove. One World/Ballantine, 2005.

Structural Racism and Community Building.  Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Washington DC: The Aspen Institute. 2004.

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer and Rebecca Anderson. New Press, 2006.

The Land Was Ours: African-American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South.   Andrew Kahrl. Harvard University Press, 2012.

Unequal Protection:  Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. Robert Bullard, ed., Random House, 1996.

References from Katherine Bartter’s article, “ Omphaloskepsis: Urban Planning Past to Present and Our Return to the Navel of the Earth”

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World 1961.

Additional Websites

American Planning Association

Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies – Urban Ecology

Center for Livable Cities, a global hub for urban solutions, created by the government of Sinagpore

Center for the Living City

Center for Urban Habitats

Congress for the New Urbanism

The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology

International Society of City and Regional Planners

The Nature of Cities

Planners Network

Smart Growth Network

Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)

The Nature of Cities

Urban and Regional Information System Association (URISA)

Urban Land Institute (ULI)

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