Urban Ecology Reading List

The urban landscape is a fascinating area where we can see evolution happening around us in real time. Plant, animals, mushrooms, weather, all evolves as we change the urban landscape. This, relatively, new area of study shows us the affect we can have on the ecosystem as a whole while we try to mold the urban landscape to our needs and wants.

  • Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans & Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems
    • By Marina Alberti
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Architecture of Country Houses
    • By A J Downing
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth In Urban America
    • By Peter J Schmitt
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
    • By Timothy Beatley
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats (Kid Friendly)
    • Author: Cylita Guy PhD
    • Source: Austin Public Library
  • The Cincinnati Arch:  Learning from Nature in the City
    • By John Tallmadge
    • 2025 CER Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • City of Flows: Modernity, Nature and the City
    • By Maria Kaika
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Design With Nature
    • By Ian L McHarg
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
    • By Daniel B Botkin
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
    • By Alan M Berger
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity
    • By Ruthorford H Platt, Rowan A Rowntree, Pamela C Muick
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Foundations of Restoration Ecology
    • By Margaret A Palmer, Joy B Zedler, Donald A Falk, Karen Holl
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Fragile Dominion
    • By Simon A Levin
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Hadean Eclogues
    • By Frederick Turner
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
    • By Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika, Erik Swyngedouw
    • Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design
    • By P Baccini, Paul H Brunner
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space
    • By Matthew Gandy
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Natural History of Vacant Lots
    • By Matthew F Vessel, Herbert H Wong
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology
    • By Beatrix Beisner, Christian Messier, Luc-Alain Giraldeau
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Nature-Friendly Communities: Habitat Protection and Land Use Planning
    • By Christopher Duerksen and Cara Snyder
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions 1920-1960
    • By Jennifer S Light
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The New Ecology:  Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene
    • By Oswald J Schmitz
    • 2025 CER Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Novel Ecosystems
    • By Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs, Carol Hall
    • 2025 CER Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Phenomenology of Perception
    • By Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Production of Space
    • By Henri Lefebure
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Red Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
    • By Marie Winn
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
    • By David Abram
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Sustainable Urban Metabolism
    • By John E Fernandez, Paulo Ferrao
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Thunder Tree: Lessons From An Urban Wildland
    • By Robert Michael Pyle
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
    • By Kelsi Nagy
    • 2025 CER Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature
    • By William Cronon
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Unofficial Countryside
    • By Richard Mabey
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • The Urban Bestiary
    • By Lyanda Lynn Haupt
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Ecology:  Science of Cities
    • By Richard T. T. Forman
    • 2025 CER Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications
    • By Jari Niemela
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City
    • By Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Emily Hilestand
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Nature Conservation: Landscape Management in the Urban Countryside
    • By Tony Kendle, Stephen Forbes
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Wastelands: A form of Urban Nature
    • By Francesca Di Pietro, Amelie Robert
    • Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Wildlife Management
    • By Clark E. Adams
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urban Wildscapes
    • By Anna Jorgensen, Richard Keenan
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
    • A Global Assessment
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Wasting Away
    • By Kevin Lynch
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants
    • By Richard Mabey
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast
    • By Peter Del Tredici
    • 2025 CER Lecture: Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City
  • Wild Urban Woodlands
    • By Ingo Kowarik and Stefan Korner
    • Lecture:  The Aquatic City, Urban Lifeworlds: Perspectives on Nature and the City

Sources

  • 2025 CER Lecture A series provided by the City of Austin Center for Environmental Research
  • Austin Public Library I feel like we are very lucky in Austin as the library curates some amazing book lists. Don’t forget to browse when you’re in checking out other books or attending an event.

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