Cities for a Shared Planet

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“Marina Alberti is a visionary offering a unique, startling, and eminently hopeful image of a future in which humans understand how to work their cities back into the fabric of the biosphere. With graceful and accessible prose, she lays out the science of ecological and evolutionary dynamics and how it can be put to work in a bio-cooperative version of urban design. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in what a truly sustainable version of human society must look like on a changing planet.”
—Adam Frank, author of The Little Book of Aliens and coauthor of The Blind Spot

“There are few books I have read in my career that have as much academic heft, that contain as dense and rich a set of innovative ideas, or that have as much promise of changing the world. This is an absolutely essential (and hopeful) read for anyone interested in the future of cities (and we all should be).”
—Tim Beatley, author of The Ethics of Cities and coauthor of Wild Nature in Cities

“Marina Alberti envisages a future in which cities are ecosystems in their own right, and where people are the keystone species in a bio-cooperative world. Every urban planner should read this book.”
—Menno Schilthuizen, author of The Urban Naturalist and Darwin Comes to Town

Marina Alberti is Professor of Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she directs the Urban Ecology Research Lab. She leads the National Science Foundation-funded Research Coordination Network on Urban Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics. She is the author of Cities That Think Like Planets and Advances in Urban Ecology and has published over 100 journal articles.

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