Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 50th Conference

Sustainable Urban Environments

by Amy BethRichard WenerBetsy YoonRuth A. RaeJessica Morris

This is an Open Access publication of conference proceedings for EDRA 50, held on May 22–26, 2019 in Brooklyn, NY. As an Open Access publication we are able to continue to make necessary corrections and adjustments as needed. We are working on ensuring that references and attributions are correct and that content, images, data and charts/graphs/tables are representative. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please email us at proceedings@edra.org.

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Description

This conference explored how environments at all scales can be designed in support of a more sustainable world. While cities are contributors to the causes of climate change and other environmental problems, the urban setting will be the proving ground for many of the solutions that address environmental, economic, social and behavioral issues across the globe. Environmental design research is integral to shaping urban design and changing environmental behavior at the global scale.

Contents

Citation: Beth, A., Wener, R., Yoon, B., Rae, R. A., & Morris, J. (Eds.). (2019). Proceedings from EDRA 50: Sustainable urban environments. Brooklyn, NY: Environmental Design Research Association.

Front Matter

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Additional Proceedings

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Keynote and plenaries

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Design & Advocacy: Environmental Design Research and Policy

Theme description

The understanding that environmental design research, in its study of the interrelationships between people and their built and natural environments, is critical to creating environments that are responsive to human needs. This includes the creative process of evidence-based design as well as advocating for policies that support critical environmental systems.

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Design & Advocacy: Full Papers

Design & Advocacy: Abstracts

Design & Advocacy: Posters

Design & Advocacy: Workshop & Symposia

Environmental Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Urban Ecology

Theme description

Bringing natural resources and updating environmental infrastructures in cities today is increasingly important given the densification of urban environments. Submissions address the incorporation of various green and blue infrastructure designs; techniques to provide benefits to urban inhabitants as well as the cities themselves; and recognizing that cities are places of urban ecology, where people and plants interact with their surroundings in an ecological manner.


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Environmental Infrastructure: Abstracts

Environmental Infrastructure: Posters

Environmental Infrastructure: Symposia

Global Climate Change — Attitudes and Behavior

Theme description

This session includes research that seeks to understand how to change attitudes and behaviors in ways that are needed to support reduction of greenhouses gases in the face of the looming problem of climate change.


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Heritage and Cultural Infrastructure

Theme description

Preserving the physical and cultural heritage of our cities is important to maintaining a sense of place and also has significant implications for supporting appropriate urban scale and sustainability in the urban setting.


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Heritage: Full papers

Heritage: Abstracts

Participatory and Evidence-Based Strategies for Sustainable Design

Theme description

Evidence-based and participatory design provide means for assuring that environments address needs and issues considered critical by those who will be living, working and recreating in those spaces. Critical issues include techniques for gathering and analyzing, presenting findings, as well as facilitating sessions to support participatory design.

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Sustainable Design: Full Papers

Sustainable Design: Abstracts

Sustainable Design: Posters

Sustainable Design: Workshops & Symposia

Place-making: Personal, Social and Cultural Meanings of Space

Theme description

Place-making acknowledges the multi-faceted approach necessary to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Urban areas are full of places that have particular social and cultural meanings and which must be preserved. Place-making recognizes the importance of designs for public spaces that included community input, provide creative and innovative solutions and support interactions between varied actors and activities that have meaning for their communities.
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Place-making: Full papers

Place-making: Abstracts

Place-Making: Posters

Place-making: Workshops & Symposia

Resilient Community Planning, Housing and Design

Theme description

Resilient planning and design create adaptive systems in communities around the world that lead to regeneration, especially during times of crisis. Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from adversity, and is especially important to keeping cities, and their inhabitants and homes, able to maintain livable urban areas during uncertain times and increasing climate change.
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Resilience: Full papers

Resilience: Abstracts

Resilience: Posters

Resilience: Symposia

Sustainable Lifestyles and Behavior

Theme description

Sustainable lifestyles and behaviors are essential to the health of the urban ecosystems found in cities as well as the planet. Understanding how behavior can be made more sustainable and providing ways for this to happen is important for the future of sustainable urban environments.


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Sustainable lifestyles: Full papers

Sustainable lifestyles: Abstracts

Sustainable Lifestyles: Posters

Sustainable Lifestyles and Behavior: Workshops & Symposia

Urban Sustainability, Equity and Globalization

Theme description

Cities are central to the cause of urgent global climate change but also will be the proving ground for many of the solutions that address environmental, economic, social and behavioral issues across the globe. Environments at all scales and locations need to be designed in support of a more equitable and sustainable world.


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Urban Sustainability: Full papers

Urban Sustainability: Abstracts

Urban Sustainability: Posters

Urban Sustainability: Workshops

EDRA@50

Description

The EDRA50 call for proposals included a new, one-time-only category - EDRA 50/50: The Past 50 years — The Next 50 years. The goal of this category was to take advantage of the 50th anniversary of the organization to “reflect and project” on the state of the field. It asked submitters to propose EDRA topics for paper/presentations that would review where the field has come in 50 years and where research and design is heading.


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Sustainable Art Projects Caught on Video

Description

EDRA50, in cooperation with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), held a screening showcasing recent video art devoted to the topic of sustainable urban environments. Short video art contributions by international artists were presented that extensively deal with issues concerned with the goal of achieving sustainable cities in the near future.

The event is part of an ongoing research project curated by Diego Mantoan, critic and art history professor at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, together with Lara Gaeta, an expert in sustainable art and activism at Hangar Bicocca in Milan.


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Digital Media Shorts

Description

Submissions to EDRA Digital Shorts could be for engaging presentations using any form of digital media, including video, audio, slides or animation, lasting up to 6 minutes of presentation time, that “impart a story about research or practical research application through image, moving image, with or without sound.”


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Mobile Workshops

Description

Mobile Sessions were designed to be off-site working sessions at a site in New York City that would be of special interest to EDRA members.

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Intensives

Description

Description forthcoming.

Intensives

Resources

Single Resources

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Metadata

  • publisher
    EDRA
  • publisher place
    New York, NY
  • rights holder
    EDRA
  • series title
    Proceedings of the fiftieth annual Environmental Design Research Association conference