Tails of the City: Caudal Autotomy in the Tropical Lizard,Anolis cristatellus, in Urban and Natural Areas of Puerto Rico

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kirsten Tyler ◽  
Kristin M. Winchell ◽  
Liam J. Revell
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Caudal Autotomy ◽  
The City

Protected Natural Areas of Puerto Rico

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Gould ◽  
Maya Quinones ◽  
Mariano Solorzano ◽  
Waldemar Alcobas ◽  
Caryl Alarcon
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

scholarly journals Retrofitting Obsolete Railroad Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Ardeleanu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Thesis Statement ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Thesis Statement This thesis will explore the development and design opportunities related to the retrofitting of abandoned railroad corridors in post industrial cities. These lines of infrastructure will be viewed as the lifelines of the city whereby, the ramifications of main transportation arteries will impact the urban network through connectivity and the creation of public open space. This thesis will look at obsolete public railroad infrastructure, as an important fragment of the collective memory of a post-industrial city that can be reactivated to connect back into the transportation urban network. These structures will be identified as landmarks that must be preserved and incorporated into public space and amenity. The reestablishment of the railroad in this context will result in the connection of the contemporary to its past, creating more meaningful and resonant spaces. These transportation corridors will be addressed as part of expanding ecological and man-made systems, thus becoming lifelines of the city, expanding their arteries to feed life into the urban fabric. The natural areas affected by these railroads will be treated as the lungs of the city and made more accessible to the public in order to raise ecological awareness. The railroad thus creates permeability, linking urban and natural areas and reviving its former function of connectivity by re-stitching the urban fabric.

Corrigendum to: Implementing the connectivity of natural areas in cities as an indicator in the City Biodiversity Index (CBI)

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
Megan R. Deslauriers ◽  
Adrienne Asgary ◽  
Naghmeh Nazarnia ◽  
Jochen A.G. Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Natural Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Index ◽  
The City ◽  
City Biodiversity Index

Scripts of Blackness

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isar P. Godreau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Racial Mixture ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race—created to overcome U.S. colonial power—simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism. Based on an ethnographic study of the barrio of San Antón in the city of Ponce, the book examines institutional and local representations of blackness as developing from a power-laden process that is inherently selective and political, not neutral or natural. The book traces the presumed benevolence or triviality of slavery in Puerto Rico, the favoring of a Spanish colonial whiteness (under a hispanophile discourse), and the insistence on a harmonious race mixture as discourses that thrive on a presumed contrast with the United States that also characterize Puerto Rico as morally superior. In so doing, the book outlines the debates, social hierarchies, and colonial discourses that inform the racialization of San Antón and its residents as black. Mining ethnographic materials and anthropological and historical research, the book provides powerful insights into the critical political, economic, and historical context behind the strategic deployment of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture.

Nature-Based Tourism Destinations

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel D. Line ◽  
Wanda M. Costen
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Gateway Cities ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The City ◽  
City Park

This article takes a dyadic approach to the conceptualization of nature-based tourism (NBT) destinations. Treating the natural area and its gateway city as distinct evaluative objects, we propose that tourists may differentially assess each element of a city–park dyad based on the degree to which the attributes of each are perceived as conducive to the fulfillment of NBT-specific goals. By empirically testing this perspective, this study reveals the unique complexities of NBT. The findings indicate that nature-based tourists have distinct perceptions of natural areas and their gateway cities. The results also reveal that proenvironmental attitudes motivate individuals to engage in NBT and are associated with a positive image of the natural area. However, these proenvironmental attitudes also yield negative attitudes toward the human-made attributes of the gateway city, which result in a negative image of the city itself. The principal implications for future research and application are discussed.

The City in Nuyorican Fiction and Poetry

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Maffi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
East Harlem ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
The City

In 1898, U.S. imperialism spread beyond the continent’s borders and took possession of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. This began the repeated waves of migration from the island to the mainland. In New York City (the main destination, along with Chicago), Puerto Ricans settled in East Harlem and the South Bronx, while the Lower East Side became the immigrant neighborhood par excellence. Adaptation strategies, common to previous immigrant communities, ensued, especially regarding the urban context and the reinvention of spaces. During the 1960s, authors such as Piri Thomas or Pedro Juan Soto began to narrate this complex experience, always in an unsteady balance between Puerto Rico and the United States. This first phase of literary output culminated the following decade (a period of deep economic and social crisis) in the so-called Nuyorican Experience, where “nuyorican” stands for “New York Puerto Rican”—a neologism that sums up the community's condition of “divided self” and defines the social and cultural horizon of a new generation of artists. In their works, poet-performer Pedro Pietri and writer Nicholasa Mohr expressed their peculiar view and sense of the city, both surreal and realistic, ironic and passionate.

scholarly journals Intra-Urban Analysis of Commercial Locations A GIS-Based Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Storie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
The City

The urban landscape is an interspersed mixing of residences, shops, theatres, parks, natural areas, and a multitude of other uses. From the early days of the central markets, to the planned downtown, to the heavily planned super-regional shopping complexes, the commercial areas within this urban landscape have evolved. There has been considerable research conducted on analyzing the commercial structure of urban environments in an attempt to better understand the nature of retailing and its resultant impacts on the geography of the city. This paper details the development of a GIS-based semi-automated method to detect commercial structure. The approach generated nearest commercial neighbour statistics as a measure of proximity between commercial locations. These were used as the foundation for clustering commercial operations into commercial areas.

scholarly journals The biocentres of the ecological network of Vinnytsia сity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rare Species ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Ecological Network ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The City

Formulation of the problem. Urban landscapes are distinguished from the surrounding territories by the radical transformation of all components under the influence of anthropogenic factor. Flora and fauna which are one of the most important factors in maintaining the ecological balance of urban landscapes are undergoing the largest changes in cities. Therefore, an urgent problem is the conservation of biota in cities. The solution of this problem involves protection of existing and restoration of degraded habitats of flora and fauna in cities; creation of the necessary migration conditions for the exchange of genetic information. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of flora and fauna, landscape complexes of biocentres of Vinnytsia ecological network. Methods. In order to achieve this purpose, a study of flora and fauna and landscape complexes of the urban territory was conducted; the habitats of rare species of flora and fauna, the areas of occurrence of the associations of the Green Book of Ukraine were revealed; features of quasi-natural areas valuable for the conservation of biodiversity were analyzed. The studies were conducted using the following methods: field research (key, area and route), analytical-cartographic analysis, collecting and processing of statistical information, literary-cartographic, theoretical generalization and systematization of facts, analysis, abstraction, analogy, synthesis. Results. 25 biocentres are singled out in the structure of Vinnytsia local ecological network. They represent all the landscapes of the city: typical forest-steppe and mixed forests; river-beds, floodplains, above-floodplain terraces, slopes and watersheds; forest-steppe woodlands, passage valleys and upland oakery; conditionally natural and anthropogenic. The characteristic features of urban ecological network biocentres are determined by their location within certain types of landscape terrain. Therefore, the floodplain, above-floodplain-terrace, slope, watershed and complex groups of biocentres of Vinnytsia are distinguished. Complex biocentres dominate in areas (70.7%). They cover several types of landscape terrains. But slope and watershed types prevail among them. Large areas (22.8%) are covered by biocentres of the above-floodplain-terrace group. Slope (1.9%) and watershed (1.3%) biocentres are the least common. Biocentres are represented by quasi-natural areas where rare species of living organisms and plant associations are frequently seen. Scientific novelty. For the first time since 2015, after increasing the area of Vinnytsia, local biocentres of the city's ecological network have been singled out. The peculiarities of landscape complexes, flora and fauna of biocentres have been revealed, in particular the list of rare species of flora and fauna has been defined. Practical importance. Distinguished biocentres of Vinnytsia local ecological network will help preserve the biotic and landscape diversity of the city, maintain ecological balance of the city territory.

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