Pioneering Biourbanism Using Design Tools

Adrian McGregor of McGregor Coxall, a Sydney based global landscape architecture, urbanism and environmental firm, is writing a book about Biourbanism, and defines the concept simply as cities = nature. “Humans are mammals that design, engineer, build and operate our urban living environments. The cities that result from these processes cannot be magically divorced from our planetary ecosystems; they are part of mother nature.” Their constituent systems rely on humans to exploit natural capital and ecosystem services to fuel them. Cities are anthromes, which can be defined as human engineered biomes, and they function as a discrete system of ecosystems. Fundamental to Biourbanism is the idea of the circular economy whereby city inputs and waste are minimized to mimic natures processes and reduce carbon footprint.

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