Interspecies Design Studio

Biodiversity-Sensitive Urban Design

Guidelines on how to select species for design

• Regional species
• Species potential
• Open process
• Stakeholder involvement

Apfelbeck, Beate, Christine Jakoby, Maximilian Hanusch, Emanuel Boas Steffani, Thomas E. Hauck, and Wolfgang W. Weisser. “A Conceptual Framework for Choosing Target Species for Wildlife-Inclusive Urban Design.” Sustainability 11, no. 24 (2019): 6972. https://doi.org/10/gmkmq9.

The Losses

Stolzenburg, William. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.

Martin, Paul S. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Rewilding

Carver, Steve. ‘(Re)Creating Wilderness: Rewilding and Habitat Restoration’. In The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton, and Mick Atha, 2nd ed., 383–94. 2013. Reprint, New York: Routledge, 2019.

Jørgensen, Dolly. ‘Rethinking Rewilding’. Geoforum 65 (2015): 482–88. https://doi.org/10/f3mxb3.

Mills, Jacob G., Philip Weinstein, Nicholas J. C. Gellie, Laura S. Weyrich, Andrew J. Lowe, and Martin F. Breed. ‘Urban Habitat Restoration Provides a Human Health Benefit Through Microbiome Rewilding: The Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis’. Restoration Ecology 25, no. 6 (2017): 866–72. https://doi.org/10/gckbzc.

Moxon, Siân. ‘Drawing on Nature: A Vision of an Urban Residential Street Adapted for Biodiversity in Architectural Drawings’. City, Territory and Architecture 6, no. 1 (2019): 6. https://doi.org/10/gh3r5m.

Nogués-Bravo, David, Daniel Simberloff, Carsten Rahbek, and Nathan James Sanders. ‘Rewilding Is the New Pandora’s Box in Conservation’. Current Biology 26, no. 3 (2016): R87–91. https://doi.org/10/gfsqj2.

Owens, Marcus, and Jennifer R. Wolch. Rewilding. Edited by Johan T. du Toit, Nathalie Pettorelli, and Sarah M. Durant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560962.014.

Perino, Andrea, Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro, Néstor Fernández, James M. Bullock, Silvia Ceaușu, Ainara Cortés-Avizanda, Roel van Klink, Tobias Kuemmerle, and Angela Lomba. ‘Rewilding Complex Ecosystems’. Science 364, no. 6438 (2019): eaav5570. https://doi.org/10/gfzxfg.

Monbiot, George. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Macdonald, Benedict. Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds. Exeter: Pelagic, 2019.

Urban Rewilding

Owens, Marcus, and Jennifer R. Wolch. ‘Rewilding Cities’. In Rewilding, edited by Johan T. du Toit, Nathalie Pettorelli, and Sarah M. Durant, 280–302. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560962.014.

Wolch, Jennifer R. ‘Zoöpolis’. Capitalism Nature Socialism 7, no. 2 (1996): 21–47. https://doi.org/10/dww337.

Wolch, Jennifer R., Kathleen West, and Thomas E. Gaines. ‘Transspecies Urban Theory’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13, no. 6 (1995): 735–60. https://doi.org/10/c7bp8v.

Kowarik, Ingo. ‘Urban Wilderness: Supply, Demand, and Access’. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 29 (2018): 336–47. https://doi.org/10/gc8pj9.

Rewilding and Justice

Noss, Reed F. ‘The Spectrum of Wildness and Rewilding: Justice for All’. In Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice, edited by Helen Kopnina and Haydn Washington, 167–82. Cham: Springer, 2020.

Bekoff, Marc, and Richard Louv. Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence. Novato: New World Library, 2014.

Cultural Attitudes

Cf. Culture, Aesthetics

Prior, Jonathan, and Emily Brady. ‘Environmental Aesthetics and Rewilding’. Environmental Values 26, no. 1 (2017): 31–51. https://doi.org/10/gfsjjd.

Examples

Hall, Marcus. ‘The High Art of Rewilding: Lessons from Curating Earth Art’. In Rewilding, edited by Nathalie Pettorelli, Sarah M. Durant, and Johan T. Du Toit, 201–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Lorimer, Jamie, and Clemens Driessen. ‘Wild Experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: Rethinking Environmentalism in the Anthropocene’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39, no. 2 (2014): 169–81. https://doi.org/10/f54s4b.

Kopnina, Helen, Simon R. B. Leadbeater, and Paul Cryer. ‘Learning to Rewild: Examining the Failed Case of the Dutch “New Wilderness” Oostvaardersplassen’. International Journal of Wilderness 25, no. 3 (2019). https://ijw.org/learning-to-rewild/.

Vettese, Troy, and Drew Pendergrass. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. London: Verso, 2022.