scholarly journals "The Natural City" International Symposion The University of Toronto's Centre for Environment and the World Society for Ekistics Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004: Summary of Daily Program

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (427-429) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Athens Center Of Ekistics
Keyword(s):  
World Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

This is the summary of "The Natural City" International Symposion's daily program.

scholarly journals The editor's page

2002 ◽  
Vol 69 (415-417) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
P. Psomopoulos
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World Society ◽  
Tsinghua University ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Beijing China

As a documentation and communication vehicle - part of a broader effort of the Athens Center of Ekistics (ACE) to contribute to the development of a sound approach to the field of Human Settlements - Ekistics makes itself available as a free forum for the exposure of ideas and experiences from anywhere to everywhere, provided they are relevant and transferable. In this effort, writings of members of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE) have quite frequently been considered and published in Ekistics. How could our attitude be different in cases of collective efforts of the WSE such as its meetings last year in Berlin (24-28 October, 2001) with the title "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century"? Actually, we have reported on such events on various occasions in the past, the most recent being in vol. 64, no. 385/386/387, July/August-Sept./Oct.-Nov./Dec.1997 and vol. 65, no. 388/389/390, Jan./Feb.-Mar./Apr.-May/June 1998 on "Mega-Cities ...and Mega-City Regions", a conference of which the WSE was a co-sponsor together with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the University of British Columbia, Canada. We are happy that the World Society for Ekistics welcomed our proposal to consider the large number of documents made available at its meetings in Berlin and select some of the papers presented for publication in Ekistics. However, the amount of material available far exceeded the capacity even of one triple issue. Hence the following two triple issues: Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century - 1 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 412/413/414,January/February-March/April-May/June 2002); and, Defining Success of the City in the 21 st Century - 2 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 415/416/417, July/August-September/October-November/December 2002).

scholarly journals Envisioning the natural city: The guest-editor's foreword

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Common Future

The author is Guest Editor for the present volume of Ekistics (vol. 71,nos. 424-426 and 427-429, 2004) on The Natural City. Dr Stefanovic agreed to serve as the Director for the new Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, commencing July I, 2005, for a five-year term. She is the former Director of the Division of the Environment, one of the three units now integrated into the new Centre, and former Associate Chair for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr Stefanovic is a Professor of Philosophy, whose teaching and research focus on values and perceptions of environmental decision making. She has a 30-year teaching and research career in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from environmental ethics to urban planning and environmental policy development. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY, 2000). Dr Stefanovic, one of the earliest members of the World Society for Ekistics, having served on various occasions as member of the Executive Council and officer of the Society, was the organizer and acted as Chair of the international symposion on"The Natural City," 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals Public space as an element of local identity: On the notion of quality in urban design

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Dieter Frick
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author, after studying architecture in Munich and Berlin, and working in a large number of international architectural offices, served as Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, and as a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung. Dr Frick is also Senior Fellow, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His numerous publications have been published extensively in Germany and internationally. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19- 24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Envisioning the natural city: The guest-editor's foreword

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (427-429) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Common Future

The author is Guest Editor for the present volume of Ekistics (vol. 71, nos. 424-426 and 427-429, 2004) on The Natural City. Dr Stefanovic agreed to serve as the Director for the new Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, commencing July I, 2005, for a five-year term.She is the former Director of the Division of the Environment, one of the three units now integrated into the new Centre, and former Associate Chair for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr Stefanovic is a Professor of Philosophy, whose teaching and research focus on values and perceptions of environmental decision making. She has a 30-year teaching and research career in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from environmental ethics to urban planning and environmental policy development. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY, 2000). Dr Stefanovic, one of the eartiest members of the World Society for Ekistics, having served on various occasions as member of the Executive Council and officer of the Society, was theorganizer and acted as Chair of the international symposion on The Natural City," 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society of Ekistics.

scholarly journals The editor's page

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
P. Psomopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
World Society ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Introductory Statement ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The University ◽  
General Adoption ◽  
Day Program

"For a long time I have considered any opportunity to collaborate with Dr Ingrid Leman Stefanovic a privilege. This time the opportunity was offered by the international Symposion on "The Natural City" sponsored by the University of Toronto and the World Society for Ekistics which took place on the campus of the university and was organized and chaired by her on behalf of both sponsors. I wish to thank her for having accepted to act as guest editor for this volume of Ekistics in spite of her very heavy commitments due to her role as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto. I also wish to express my admiration for her inspired and inspiring introductory statement on the concept of the natural city (see pp. 8 and 9). In this Symposion, an international and interdisciplinary group of approx. 100 experts and a fairly large number of other participants and students held a very intensive three-day program - 4 plenary and 28 special sessions, with several papers and discussions in each (see p. 2) - determined to challenge the erroneous but still prevailing perception of "human settlements" and "nature" as independent of each other; and, to stress the need for the general adoption of the integration of these two notions , which is inherent in the approach of both convenors of the Symposion."

scholarly journals The environmental costs of femininity

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Carly Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
World Society ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
The University

The author graduated in 2004 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. Specializing in "Environment and Society" in the Division of the Environment, her senior thesis constituted the foundation for the present paper reflecting her interests in sustainability, feminism, history, politics and popular culture. She is currently preparing for graduate study in the field of urban planning. The text that follows is an edited and revised version of her paper presented at the international symposion on "The Natural City, " Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals Coping with urbanization in China: The role of the sciences of human settlements and planning practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 196-206
Author(s):  
Wu Liangyong
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Tsinghua University ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
Urbanization In China ◽  
The University

The author is Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies , Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China; member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; and Director of both the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies and the Center for Human Settlements, Tsinghua University. He is also a member and former President of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Articulating electronic space for interaction

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Mit Mitropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Vice President ◽  
World Society ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Space Networks ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author has been working on communications with and without technology, and was guest-editor of the Ekistics special issue with the same title (October 1983). His Edinburgh University 1974 Ph.D was on Space Networks, considering space as a network. Born into a family of sailors, he grew up on ocean-going boats, and for three years was a Naval Intelligence officer. He was active in the 1968-and-after period in Northern European universities. He has acted as consultant to national/international bodies and, being invited to look into Europe as-a-whole, or into the Aegean Sea, or into the Mediterranean, he has formulated proposals to change policy (although cannot claim being successful in trying). Having combined behavioral sciences with visual arts, he has contributed to the art-science-technology field two on-going series of projects and project-proposals: the video communications installations Face-to-Face, and geopolitical art. He has concentrated on islands both for observations of communications issues and using telecommunications for quality development, and also for the ongoing series of minimal constructions on coastal remote sites. As a student he was invited to the Delos 1969 Symposion on Networks, and is a member of the World Society for Ekistics - for which society he has also acted as vice-president. He has not sailed through the Pacific. The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals The Poster Session: A fitting finale to a very successful WSE meeting

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 330-333
Author(s):  
David Langridge
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The author trained and worked initially as an urban planner with workin England and Australia. He was Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (Architecture Planning, Landscape Architecture), Cheltenham College of Art, between 1971 and 1983. Since 1983, he has lived and worked in Edinburgh as an artist, developing a visual language. His subject matter is the City and its visual form, drawing inspiration from the city of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics and since 2003 a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is the co-ordinator's report of the Poster Session on the afternoon of Friday, 23 September, 2005, with Nobuyuki Sekiguchi as Chairman, at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Separating out the levels: Globalization, identity, and the Ekistic Grid in sociological perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
William Michelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto. His special areas are Urban Sociology and Social Ecology, with a focus on built environments. His most recent book is Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences (Boulder, CO,Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Previous books include: Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (1970 and 1976), Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction (1977), From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families (1985), Methods in Environmental and Behavioral Research (1987), and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002). He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics, as well as the Royal Society of Canada. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

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