Humans in their ecological setting Flashcards
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by
definition, is the “planning of city strategies,
structures, and policies.” The focus is more technical
and political on the strategy, structure, and policy.
Urban planning
is planning a city’s structures,
including its policies, infrastructure, neighborhoods,
building codes, and regulations.
Urban planning
is used to focus solely on designing
individual city features. This could be a transportation
system, city park, or wastewater treatment facility.
Urban design
for those who want to do creative
work. People who want to work on quality of life,
population resilience, and sustainability will find
rewarding career as urban designers.
Urban design
often speak at public gatherings
and assess market research data to discover the
wants and needs of a city.
Urban Planners
They are tasked with
working alongside land developers and public officials
to build plans for the development of parks and
public buildings that the surrounding community will
benefit from.
Urban Planners
stay busy meeting up with a range of clients
while relying on programs like AutoCAD, SketchUp, and GIS to
develop blueprints for city parks and public buildings.
Urban Designers
This
career requires a good deal of creativity and artistic vision, as
well as the ability to make sure plans are workable. They meet
with landscapers, civil engineers, and a variety of other
professionals to create workable designs. After the project is
complete, it is important that the urban designer meets with
the client to ensure it covers all of their specifications.
Urban Designers
is the interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary study of the
relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built
environments.
Human ecology
as a discipline was technically born when
Ernst Haeckel used the word “oekologie” in 1866 to describe the
study of an organism’s relationship to its environment.
ecology
is composed of concepts from ecology like interconnectivity,
community behavior, and spatial organization. From the
beginning, human ecology was present in geography and
sociology, but also in biological ecology and zoology.
human ecology
characteristics of populations
location
density
growth rate
causes of change in population size
number of births
number of deaths
Number of individuals t hat move in or out of a certain area or place
Under ideal
conditions
populations grow
exponentially
as the population grows larger, it grows faster
Under ideal
conditions
populations grow
exponentially.
In the natural world
population shows
logistic growth
population growth slows or stops after a period of exponential growth
logistic growth
population reaches a carrying capacity
logistic growth
limiting factors of population size
density independent and dependent limits
limits that affect a population regardless of population size
density independent limits
temperature, storms, flood
density independent limits
limits that increase as population size increases
density dependent limits
diseases. parasites, competition, predators
density dependent limits
world human population growth is
exponential
