Speakers and topics
Cracks in the Concrete Jungle:
New Perspectives on Urban Ecology
October 22-24th, 2010 in Berlin
Session |
Keynote speakers |
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| Sustainable Planning and Policy | Keynote 1 |
FR, 9:15 - 10:00 p.m |
Jürgen Breuste (University of Salzburg, Geography & Geology Lab, AUT) Urban soil sealing – key indicator for urban ecological functionality and ecological planning |
| Urban Biodiversity | Keynote 2 | FR, 1:30 - 2:15 p.m. | John Marzluff (University of Washington, School of Forest Resources, USA) Investigating the mechanisms that change bird diversity along a gradient of urbanization |
| Environmental Media | Keynote 3 |
SA, 9:15 - 10:00 a.m. |
Michael Bruse (Mainz University, Dept. of Geography, GER) Urban vegetation and climate change: Assessing potentials and uncertainties with a numerical model |
| Methods, Theories and Practice | Keynote 4 | SA, 11:45 - 12:30 p.m. | Wulf Tessin (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute for Open Space Development, GER) "Urban nature" or what planners think people should like, understand or at least shrug off |
| Perception and Behavior | Keynote 5 |
SA, 4:15 - 5:00 p.m. | Frances E. Kuo (University of Illinois, Landscape and Human Health Lab, USA) Green environments as key components of a healthy human habitat |
Invited speakers |
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| Sustainable Planning and Policy | Invited speaker 1 | FR, 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Juliane Mathey (Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Dresden, GER) Adaption to climate change by urban green systems in relation to urban brownfield renaturation |
| Urban Biodiversity | Invited speaker 2 | FR, 2:15 - 2:35 p.m. | Barbara Clucas (University of Washington, School of Forest Resources, USA) Human-avian interactions in urban areas |
| Environmental Media | Invited speaker 3 | SA, 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Sabine Wurzler (LANUV, GER) Improving the air quality in our cities: Are the measures effective? |
| Methods, Theories and Practice | Invited speaker 4 | SA, 12:30 - 12:50 p.m. | Philippe Clergeau (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, FRA) The steps to a new urbanism paradigm |
| Perception and Behavior | Invited speaker 5 | SA, 5:00 - 5:20 p.m. | Robbert Snep (Wageningen University & Research Center, Landscape Center, Alterra, NED) Bridging
the gap between red and green – how to get architects, project
developers and entrepreneurs involved in urban biodiversity
conservation? |
Talks |
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| Sustainable Planning and Policy | 1-1 | FR, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | Marco Voltini (Politecnic of Milan, School of Architecture, ITA) Infrastructure as a medium for democracy and architecture |
| 1-2 | FR, 11:00 - 11:20 a.m | Miguel Martinez (University Complutense of Madrid, UNED, ESP) "Bike every day, celebrate it once a month" Critical Mass, sustainable urban mobility, and social articulations | |
| 1-3 | FR, 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. | Joëlle Salomon Cavin (Lausanne University, Institute of Land Use Policies and human Environment, SUI) Environmental organisations: Towards integrative strategies? | |
| 1-4 | FR, 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. | Braulio Eduardo Morera (University College London, Dept. of Geography, GBR) Planning through images: Influences of contemporary design practice on Chinese environmentalism | |
| Urban Biodiversity | 2-1 | FR, 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. | Götz Heinrich Loos (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dept. of Geography, GER) Invasive plant species in city habitats of the Ruhrgebiet (Germany) – finding a niche? |
| 2-2 | FR, 3:20 - 3:40 p.m. | Sonja Knapp (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Dept. of Community Ecology/University of Halle, GER) Changes in the functional composition of a Central European urban flora over three centuries | |
| 2-3 | FR, 3:40 - 4:00 p.m. | Christopher David Ives (Macquarie University, Dept. of Environment & Geography, AUS) The influence of corridor width and landscape characteristics on the biodiversity of urban riparian zones | |
| Environmental Media | 3-1 | SA, 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | Ulrike Weiland (University of Leipzig, Dept. of Geography, GER) On the spatial correlation between PM10 concentrations and social strata in an urban environmental zone – the example of Berlin |
| 3-2 | SA, 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. | Fred Meier (Berlin Institute of Technology, Dept.of Ecology, GER) Trees in the concrete jungle: Spatial and temporal patterns of tree crown temperature in an urban environment | |
| 3-3 | SA, 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Phillip Starke (University of Muenster, Dept. of Applied Geology, GER) Increasing urban evaporation rates | |
| Methods, Theories and Practice | 4-1 | SA, 12:50 - 1:10 p.m. | Undine Giseke (Berlin Institute of Technology, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, GER) |
| 4-2 | SA, 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. | Paolo Cascone, Andrea Di Stefano (Ecole Speciale d’ Architecture - ESA, FRA) U R B A N E C O L O G I E S - towards a performative urbanism | |
| 4-3 | SA, 3:20 - 3:40 p.m. | Jinliao He (Heidelberg University, Dept. of Geography, GER) Empirical study on China’s major function zoning from the perspective of ecological economics - a case study on Beijing Tianjin Metropolitan Area | |
| 4-4 | SA, 3:40 - 4:00 p.m. | Amir Bahramipanah (Politecnico di Milano, ITA) A comparative study of wind energy usage in architecture: Learning from traditional architecture in Iran | |
| Perception and Behavior | 5-1 | SA, 5:20 - 5:40 p.m. | Katrin Großmann (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, GER) Some like it hot? - Integrating measurements of land surface and air temperature with self-reported wellbeing |
| 5-2 | SA, 6:00 - 6:20 p.m. | Ioana Florea (University of Bucharest, Institute of Sociology and Social Work, ROU) The Concrete pieces that Crack faster: vulnerable groups and environmental behaviours |
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| 5-3 | SA, 6:20 6:40 p.m. | Jens Martin Gurr, Martin Butler (University of Duisburg-Essen / University of Oldenburg, GER) Approaching the "cultural dimension of sustainability": On urban cultures as ecological "force-fields" in processes of sustainable development | |
| 5-4 | SA, 6:40 - 7:00 p.m. | Dieter Rink, Thomas Arndt (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Sociology, GER) Urban forest as an innovative open space strategy for shrinking cities | |