Responsive Urban Environments

Workshop

 

The Responsive Urban Environment (RUE) looks at the city through the lens of ecosystem management.  RUE considers the city as a complex network of interrelated systems that rely on each other to maintain system balance.   A dialogue of hardscape to landscape, city infrastructure is comprised of buildings, roads and bridges with respect to green public space, waterways and food access - home to humans, plants and animals, the glue of its ecosystem crossed by issues related to public health, the watershed, and biodiversity.  Ecosystems themselves are complex adaptive systems that require flexibility and the capacity to respond to environmental feedback to cope with change and uncertainty.