Precedents

A list of current Landscape Architecture and Urban Design projects from around the world capturing the unique essence of urban wildlife.

 
 

Readings in animal-human relationships

Alonso, R. S. et al. (2015) ‘Mark-recapture and mark-resight methods for estimating abundance with remote cameras: A carnivore case study’, PLoS ONE, 10(3), pp. 1–13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123032.

Atkins, P. J. (Peter J. . (ed.) (2012) Animal cities : beastly urban histories . Farnham, Surrey ; Ashgate.

Barrueto, M., Ford, A. T. and Clevenger, A. P. (2014) ‘Anthropogenic effects on activity patterns of wildlife at crossing structures’, Ecosphere, 5(3). doi: 10.1890/ES13-00382.1.

Beardsley, J. (2013) Designing Wildlife Habitats: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXXIV. Dumbarton Oaks.

Burt, J. (2005) ‘JOHN BERGER’S “WHY LOOK AT ANIMALS?”: A CLOSE READING’, Worldviews. Brill, 9(2), pp. 203–218. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43809300.

Ditchkoff, S. S., Saalfeld, S. T. and Gibson, C. J. (2006) ‘Animal behavior in urban ecosystems: Modifications due to human-induced stress’, Urban Ecosystems. Springer, 9(1), pp. 5–12. doi: 10.1007/s11252-006-3262-3.

Fegraus, E. H. et al. (2011) ‘Data acquisition and management software for camera trap data: A case study from the TEAM Network’, Ecological Informatics. Elsevier B.V., 6(6), pp. 345–353. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.06.003.

Fuller, R. A. et al. (2007) ‘Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity’, Biology Letters, 3(4), pp. 390–394. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0149.

Gehrt, S. D. and Chelsvig, J. E. (2008) ‘Bat activity in an urban landscape: Patterns at the landscape and microhabitat scale’, Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, pp. 437–453. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-73412-5_29.

George, S. L. and Crooks, K. R. (2006) ‘Recreation and large mammal activity in an urban nature reserve’, Biological Conservation, 133(1), pp. 107–117. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.024.

Heise, U. K. (2016) Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species. University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ISzejgEACAAJ.

Jokimäki, J. et al. (2011) ‘Merging wildlife community ecology with animal behavioral ecology for a better urban landscape planning’, Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4), pp. 383–385. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.001.

Lendrum, P. E., Crooks, K. R. and Wittemyer, G. (2017) ‘Changes in circadian activity patterns of a wildlife community post high-intensity energy development’, Journal of Mammalogy, 98(5), pp. 1265–1271. doi: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx097.

Lewis, J. S. et al. (2015) ‘Interspecific interactions between wild felids vary across scales and levels of urbanization’, Ecology and Evolution, 5(24), pp. 5946–5961. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1812.

Lowry, H., Lill, A. and Wong, B. B. M. (2013) ‘Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments’, Biological Reviews, 88(3), pp. 537–549. doi: 10.1111/brv.12012.

Lukasik, V. M. and Alexander, S. M. (2011) ‘Human-Coyote interactions in Calgary, Alberta’, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 16(2), pp. 114–127. doi: 10.1080/10871209.2011.544014.

Luniak, M. (2004) ‘Synurbization: Adaptation of animal wildlife to urban development’, Proceedings 4th International Urban Wildlife Symposium, pp. 50–55.

Luniak, M. (2008) ‘Fauna of the big city-Estimating species richness and abundance in Warsaw Poland’, Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, pp. 349–354. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-73412-5_22.

Magle, S. B. et al. (2012) ‘Urban wildlife research: Past, present, and future’, Biological Conservation, 155, pp. 23–32. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.06.018.

Monbiot, G. (2013) Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding. Penguin Books Limited. Available at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=9u44cemjQlUC.

Norouzzadeh, M. S. et al. (2018) ‘Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(25), pp. E5716–E5725. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719367115.

Philo, C. and Wilbert, C. (eds) (2000) Animal spaces, beastly places new geographies of human-animal relations . London ; Routledge (Critical geographies).

Purdy, J. (2015) After nature : a politics for the anthropocene . Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Harvard University Press.

Schilthuizen, M. (2019) Darwin Comes to Town. Quercus. Available at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=P7s_swEACAAJ.

Shwartz, A. et al. (2012) ‘Urban biodiversity, city-dwellers and conservation: How does an outdoor activity day affect the human-nature relationship?’, PLoS ONE, 7(6), pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038642.

Siu, K. W. M., Wong, Y. L. and Lo, C. H. (2020) Design Ergonomics for Human Beings and Wild Animals in Densely Populated Cities: A Design Case in Hong Kong Country Parks, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20227-9_60.

Soulé, M. E. (1991) ‘Land use planning and wildlife maintenance: Guidelines for conserving wildlife in an urban landscape’, Journal of the American Planning Association, 57(3), pp. 313–323. doi: 10.1080/01944369108975502.

Tigas, L. A., Van Vuren, D. H. and Sauvajot, R. M. (2002) ‘Behavioral responses of bobcats and coyotes to habitat fragmentation and corridors in an urban environment’, Biological Conservation, 108(3), pp. 299–306. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00120-9.