Communicates sound, up-to-date ecological principles to the urban design community to help improve the ecological function of designed and built landscapes

Identifies novel environmental research directions needed to support basic urban ecology as well as sustainable and resilient urban design

Articulates new criteria for assessing good ecological urban design while engaging the design imagination

Contributions by leading voices in the design and ecological communities

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1. Ecology of the City as a Bridge to Urban Design.- 2. Three Tides: The Development and State of the Art of Urban Ecological Science.- 3. Social Dynamics and Sustainable Urban Design.- 4. Integral Urbanism: A Context for Urban Design.- 5. Landscape as Method and Medium for the Ecological Design of Cities.- 6. Ecological Heterogeneity in Urban Ecosystems: Reconceptualized Land Cover Models as a Bridge to Urban Design.- 7. Urban Patch Dynamics and Resilience: Three London Urban Design Ecologies.- 8. Eco-engineering for Water: From Soft to Hard & Back.- 9. Beyond Restoration and into Design: Hydrologic Alterations in Aridland Cities.- 10. Ecological Resilience as a Foundation for Urban Design and Sustainability.- 11. Slow, Moderate, Fast: Urban Adaptation and Change.- 12. Anchoring a Terrain: Landscapes beyond Urbanism.- 13. Storyline and Design: How Civic Stewardship Shapes Urban Design in New York City.- 14. Eco-cities without Ecology: Constructing Ideologies, Valuing Nature.- 15. Sponge City.- 16. Civic Space in Regional Frameworks: Resilient Approaches to Urban Design.- 17. Aesthetic Resilience.- 18. Anchoring Philadelphia.- 19. Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park Treatment Wetland: Integrated Strategies in Natural Treatment System Design.- 20. Just Ground: A Social Infrastructure for Urban Landscape Regeneration.- 21. Ecological and Social Linkages in Urban Design Projects: A Synthesis.- 22. The Design Process as a Framework for Collaboration between Ecologists and Designers.- 23. Remixing Messages: A Call for Collaboration between Artists and Scientists.- 24. Landscape Urbanism: A North American Perspective.- 25. Urbanism and Ecological Rationality.- 26. Bangkok: The Ecology and Design of an Aqua-City.- 27. Disturbanism in the South Pacific: Disturbance Ecology as a Basis for Urban Resilience in Small Island States.- 28. The Ecology of the Metacity: Shaping the Dynamic, Patchy, Networked, and Adaptive Cities of the Future.