Living with Nature: Tiaki Taiao, Tiaki Tngata, The case of Zealandia

Copyright © NCEUB 2017. The overpopulating growth attendant with high-density urban living has stressed natural landscapes in most major urban centres, devastating their rich indigenous ecologies. In the case of New Zealand, the mid-19th century colonisation saw the introduction of predators and aggressive plant species, significantly scarring and reshaping the landscape. This also devastated New Zealand's endemic ecologies, resulting in the extinction of species and loss of biodiversity. In the last 800 years, 32% of all indigenous flora and fauna have been lost. In an attempt to protect those last remaining and threatened species, a fenced sanctuary was developed in the capital city, Wellington, taking advantage of an unutilised water reservoir system that had been established inadvertently on a major earthquake fault-line. Twenty years from its inception, the unbroken predator-free ecosystem nestled amongst Wellington's suburbs and scrublands has become a world-first to restore indigenous natural habitat, illustrating our past native natural heritage. This paper examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster the existing ecologies while accommodating visitor services, which improve the social, cultural, economic and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits have far exceeded the original goals of the project and offer new prospects for health and wellbeing as its influence extends to network adjacent green and blue infrastructure.

Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

10.26686/wgtn.12413339.v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Marques ◽

Jacqueline McIntosh ◽

W Hatton ◽

D Shanahan

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Well Being ◽

Capital City ◽

Compact City ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Cultural Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Mammalian Predators ◽

The City ◽

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

10.26686/wgtn.13750462.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Marques ◽

Jacqueline McIntosh ◽

W Hatton ◽

D Shanahan

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Well Being ◽

Capital City ◽

Compact City ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Cultural Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Mammalian Predators ◽

The City ◽

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

10.26686/wgtn.13750462 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Marques ◽

Jacqueline McIntosh ◽

W Hatton ◽

D Shanahan

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Well Being ◽

Capital City ◽

Compact City ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Cultural Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Mammalian Predators ◽

The City ◽

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in the compact city: The case of Zealandia as a sustainable ecosanctuary

10.26686/wgtn.12413339 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Marques ◽

Jacqueline McIntosh ◽

W Hatton ◽

D Shanahan

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Well Being ◽

Capital City ◽

Compact City ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Cultural Perspectives ◽

The Social ◽

Mammalian Predators ◽

The City ◽

© 2019, © 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores the development of an ecosanctuary initiated by the community. The indigenous flora and fauna was damaged as a result of the introduction of mammalian predators and aggressive plant species when the country was colonized, and through intensive urbanization. The restoration of the indigenous flora and fauna and the reintroduction of birdsong has resulted in a significant increase in commercial ecotourism. This paper explores health and well-being opportunities resulting from seeing the sanctuary through a Māori lens. It examines the phenomenon of Zealandia, where green and blue infrastructures foster emerging ecologies while accommodating visitor services and improving the social, cultural, economic, and environmental health of the city. It finds that the benefits of this compact urban landscape far exceed the original goals of the project and it offers new prospects for health and well-being through intensification by addressing sustainability holistically and including socio-cultural perspectives and initiatives.

Studies in the Social and Economic History of Ostia

Papers of the British School at Rome ◽

10.1017/s0068246200005882 ◽

1938 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 152-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Frederick H. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Economic History ◽

Capital City ◽

Standard Of Living ◽

Three Generations ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The City ◽

Made In

The first of these Studies was concerned chiefly with the history of Ostia during the period when the city was still growing and its prosperity increasing. Even so, during the period already considered, the prosperity of Ostia, though real, was to this extent artificial, in that it depended upon factors over which the citizens themselves had no control. Ostia was the port of Rome, and nothing else, and in consequence any lowering of the standard of living in, or reduction of imports into the capital city must have had immediate and marked repercussions upon her prosperity. She even lacked to a great extent those reserves of wealth which in other cities might be drawn upon to tide over bad times. The typical citizen of Ostia came to the city in the hope of making his fortune there; but when he had made it, he usually preferred to retire to some more pleasant town, such as Tibur, Tusculum, Velitrae, or Rome itself, where he could enjoy his leisure. Few families seem to have remained in the city for more than two, or, at the most, three generations. Whilst therefore fortunes were made in Ostia, wealth was not accumulated there.

Conceptual Urban Planning a Prerequisite for Physical Urban Planning

Modern Applied Science ◽

10.5539/mas.v10n3p95 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 95

Author(s):

Hamidreza Varesi ◽

Mahmoud Mahmoudzade

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Social Organization ◽

Political Organization ◽

Urban Setting ◽

Physical Aspect ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

The Social ◽

Physical Elements ◽

Constituent Elements ◽

<span lang="EN-US">In the contemporary urban order the rational connection between the physique of the city and its non-physical elements is a major concern. Whatever happens in the existence of a city like the social, cultural, economic and political interactions are the inevitable realities through which the qualification and quantification nature of the city are determined. All occurrences in these realities, the constituent elements, are subject to the structural process which can be regulated as one of the social organization (non-physical) in urban settings, namely the social organization of the city, economic organization of the city and the political organization of the city. These organizations have the ranking in importance according to the city scale. The objective here is to identify these organizations and their contributions in conceptual urban planning. The adopted method here is descriptive-analytic. In a comparative comparison between the physical and non-physical needs of human regarding an urban setting reveals that the non-physical aspect has priority with high importance since its effect on the citizens’ satisfaction is specific and direct.</span>

Delhi under the Sultanate

Delhi in Historical Perspectives ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190124007.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-73

Author(s):

K. A. Nizami

Keyword(s):

Capital City ◽

Spiritual Life ◽

New Delhi ◽

Urban Habitats ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

The Rich ◽

New City ◽

From Indraprastha to New Delhi, the city has undergone many transformations and incarnations. It was during the Sultanate period, from 1206–1526, however, that it assumed importance as the capital city of the Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq and Lodhi dynasties. With occasional interludes, Delhi has since remained the capital. However, not only every dynasty but virtually every sultan chose to build his fortifications in a different area and around it came up a new city. Thus Delhi grew as a conglomerate of several urban habitats. This chapter deals with the rich social, cultural, economic, and spiritual life of the city in all these different avatars, with particular emphasis on life in the Sufi khaneqahs and their contribution towards forging a composite cultural and civilizational ethos. Amir Khusrau and his poetry are a celebrated chapter of the period and are accorded expansive treatment.

Cultural and Economic Influences on Multi-Cultural Cities: the Case of Doha, Qatar

Open House International ◽

10.1108/ohi-02-2012-b0005 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 33-41

Author(s):

Yasser Mahgoub ◽

Reham A. Qawasmeh

Keyword(s):

Spatial Dimension ◽

Population Diversity ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Cultural Groups ◽

Urban Experience ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Gulf Countries ◽

The Social ◽

Diverse Groups ◽

Population diversity is one of the main challenges facing metropolitan centers worldwide. Especially in emerging Arab Gulf countries, where the population is composed of multiple nationalities; socio-physical, socio-economic, and socio-cultural presence in the city is highly noticeable. Doha, the capital of Qatar, is an example of Gulf cities that attract an inflow of foreigners to live and work due to its economic prosperity. It is noticeable that utilization of urban spaces in Doha is affected by socio-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds of its inhabitants. This study focuses on investigating the experiences of the multicultural groups within the city's spatial dimension. It aims at understanding the cultural, economic and spatial connections of these diverse groups and how the urban environment of the city can be improved to support the experiences of these multicultural populations. The paper explores the experiences of different nationalities according to the social activities distribution of the sub-cultures as an exemplary of other Gulf cities. In depth interviews, questionnaires and systematic observations were conducted to gather information from Qatari and non-Qatari populations focusing on their weekly activities and preferred urban spaces in the city. The paper argues that urban spaces define limits and boundaries for social experiences and interaction based on the cultural and economic background and suggests measures to improve the quality of urban experience of the diverse cultural groups.

Struktur Pengembangan Kawasan Permukiman Lama Sebagai Identitas Morfologi Kawasan Kabupaten Kepulauan Meranti

JURNAL TEKNIK ◽

10.31849/teknik.v14i1.3884 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 96-105

Author(s):

Wati Masrul ◽

Boby Samra

Keyword(s):

Development Process ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Settlement Area ◽

The Social ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The City ◽

Descriptive Method

ABSTAK Perkembangan sebuah kota tidak terlepas dari adanya beberapa aktivitas yang mempengaruhi baik dari aspek sosial, budaya, ekonomi dan perdagangan. Hal ini terjadi di asia barat hingga sepanjang pesisir pantai sumatera. Sejarah telah mengungkapkan kan bahwa pertumbuhan kerajaan melayu yakni siak sri indrapura mengakibatkan tumbuh nya cikal bakal sebuah kota , dimana kota-kota yang berada di sepanjang pesisir pantai sumatera di jadikan sebagai tempat persinggahan.salah satunya kota selat panjang yang terletak di kabupaten kepulauan meranti .Dengan adanya aktivitas perdagangan mengakibatkan aspek aspek lain seperti pemukiman juga ikut tumbuh, melihat proses perkembangan yang terjadi di kota selat panjang maka penelitian yang di lakukan kali ini bertujuan untuk melihat struktur pengembangan kawasan permukiman lama sehingga akan di ketahui morfologi kota tersebut. Penelitian ini di lakukan dengan menggunakan metoda deskriptif kualitatif yang mengacu kepada figure ground pemukiman lama sehingga akan terlihat morfologi kawasan permukiman lama yang akan menjadi indentitas kota tersebut. ABSTRACT The development of a city is inseparable from the existence of several activities that affect both the social, cultural, economic and trade aspects. This happened in West Asia along the coast of Sumatra. History has revealed that the growth of the Malay kingdom namely Siak Sri Indrapura resulted in the growth of a forerunner to a city, where cities along the coast of Sumatra were made as a stopover. One of them is a long strait city located in the Meranti archipelago district. the existence of trade activities resulted in other aspects such as settlements also growing, seeing the development process that occurred in the city of the strait, the research conducted this time aims to look at the structure of the development of the old settlement area so that the morphology of the city will be known. This research was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method that refers to the figure of the old settlement ground so that the morphology of the old settlement area will be seen which will be the identity of the city.