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8<br />
Constructing Zootopia<br />
Going Beyond the Anthropocentricity of Landscape Urbanism<br />
<strong>Melvin</strong> Wah<br />
The urban environment is<br />
increasingly moving beyond architecture<br />
towards a realm of understanding<br />
landscape as a site of intervention<br />
and model to plan , design and build<br />
cities. This movement is the result of<br />
the perceived failures of modern urban<br />
design and the alienation of disciplines<br />
that disengage architecture from the<br />
contexts that informs the process of<br />
urban design (Waldheim, 2016). The<br />
result is landscape urbanism that has<br />
been derived from ecological planning<br />
and postmodern architecture culture.<br />
Now, the urban form no longer relies<br />
solely on design but is dependent on<br />
an agency of ecological processes that<br />
is directed at fulfilling cultural goals.<br />
This movement contrasts greatly with<br />
earlier juxtapositions between the city<br />
and landscape, inverting American and<br />
European conceptions of landscape .<br />
Landscape is a resilient<br />
process that allows planning and design<br />
disciplines to provide for opportunities<br />
but not determine solutions. In his<br />
writing within his article ‘Ten Tenets and<br />
Six Questions for Landscape Urbanism<br />
Thompson (2012) who developed a<br />
critical analysis of Landscape Urbanism,<br />
set out ten tenets to pin down the<br />
superfluous concept of landscape<br />
urbanism. He illustrated that landscape<br />
urbanism will develop a more hybridized,<br />
functional urban environment that is<br />
constantly in ecological flux, preparing<br />
urban spaces for fields of action and<br />
opportunities and will eventually replace<br />
architecture as the building block of cities.<br />
Babbitt (2007), former Secretary of the<br />
Interior and Governor of Arizona, argues<br />
in his book that America desperately<br />
needs a new national vision for land<br />
use, one that can balance the needs for<br />
human settlement and community with<br />
the preservation of the natural world<br />
that life depends. Landscape Urbanism<br />
seems to present itself as the answer<br />
by embracing ecological complexity and<br />
flux. A good example of a Landscape<br />
Urbanism project is The Hills at Vallco that<br />
is built as a redevelopment project for a<br />
dilapidated mall in Cupertino, California.<br />
However, the practice of<br />
Landscape Urbanism within the various<br />
contemporary landscape projects has<br />
been biasedly anthropocentric betraying<br />
its theoretical roots in embracing ecology<br />
and complexity. This is not the fault of<br />
landscape urbanism as a theoretical<br />
concept but how projects have interpreted<br />
the idea of landscape urbanism and the<br />
projects that the movement has held in<br />
esteem. where there is a hybrid of the<br />
wild and cultivated how do we strike the<br />
balance between focusing primarily on<br />
the needs of humans and the needs of<br />
nature in a ‘rambunctious garden’ tended<br />
by us? (Marris, 2013). It is worth studying<br />
if Ecological Urbanism, that has evolved<br />
from Landscape Urbanism has provided<br />
the answer to this anthropocentric<br />
critique within a bigger framework on<br />
understanding where do animals fit<br />
within the physical urban environment.<br />
How can we plan and design cities for<br />
our non-human counterparts in a way<br />
that embraces the complexity and flux<br />
of ecological systems within the urban<br />
environment? This paper will examine<br />
if Landscape Urbanism and Ecological<br />
Urbanism has done enough to uphold<br />
the tenet of ecological complexity and<br />
flux within the ecosystems they design,<br />
or do they revert to the same humanistic<br />
approach that has permeated landscape<br />
thinking before? . By identifying the gaps<br />
between theory and practice, this paper<br />
hopes to expand the realm of Ecological<br />
Urbanism to be more inclusive to animal<br />
geographies and how they can be<br />
applicable to Landscape Architecture.<br />
Questioning Our Own Ontological<br />
Exceptions<br />
We are living in a post-wild world,<br />
where wildness does not exist as much<br />
within nature. Any depictions of wilderness<br />
is social constrctured. (Rainer and West,<br />
2015). This new conceptualization of<br />
nature signify the end of nature as we<br />
perceived it and is a contemporary call<br />
to embrace and acknowledge the effect<br />
that humans have on places they inhabit<br />
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since prehistory, with opportunities to<br />
create new and novel ecosystems that<br />
manage both the needs<br />
of nature and humans in<br />
FIgure 1: The HIlls at Vallco,<br />
FIgure 1: The Hills at Vallco<br />
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since prehistory, with opportunities to<br />
create new and novel ecosystems that<br />
manage both the needs<br />
of nature and humans in place of the<br />
natural systems that we have put in<br />
place through a classical conservation<br />
approach (Marris, 2013). Yet, this decade<br />
long debate on human influence<br />
and wilderness have been characterised<br />
mainly by the question of ‘how do we<br />
define nature? The answer will lead environmental<br />
design pedagogy, ecological<br />
thinking and how we plan our physical<br />
environments. Definitions of wilderness<br />
have become more and more complex<br />
and varied as we know more about functions<br />
and values of wilderness. Wilderness<br />
was defined by law as land that is<br />
designated for preservation and protection<br />
with limited action by Man. It is no<br />
longer enough for us to make such a<br />
simple distinction between preservation<br />
and integration (Wittbecker, 2006). It<br />
does not seem however, worthwhile for<br />
us to take on such a reductive approach<br />
in aiding us to analyze the workings of<br />
landscape urbanism. We need to be<br />
able to delineate the nonhuman nature<br />
aspects of wilderness and human influence<br />
on ecosystems (Wittbecker, 2006).<br />
This anthropocentric critique of<br />
landscape urbanism goes beyond a simple,<br />
reductive argument that all nature<br />
is anthropocentric but suggests that the<br />
practices of landscape urbanism has deviated<br />
from its theoretical grounding by<br />
manipulating ecological processes as<br />
subservient to humanist goals of aesthetics<br />
and culture, abandoning systemic<br />
analysis, resource management and<br />
genetic diversity. In a way, landscape<br />
becomes a site of intervention that is<br />
pruned for the quiet enjoyment of humans.<br />
One can see this apparently in one<br />
of landscape urbanism’s hallmark projects,<br />
The High Line in New York City. The<br />
Friends of the High Line and the Regional<br />
Plan Association advocated for an abandoned<br />
rail line that weaves through 22<br />
blocks of New York City to be converted<br />
into a park (Steiner, 2011). The High Line<br />
as an example of exemplary ecological<br />
design is supposed to evolve with time.<br />
Yet with the brimming success<br />
of the project, many new high rises<br />
surrounding the elevated rail line has<br />
affected the survival of plants that were<br />
placed there and instead encouraged<br />
the growth of weeds which has to be<br />
constantly manicured by gardeners.<br />
This is a clear, direct example of how the<br />
practice of landscape urbanism deviates<br />
from its theoretical grounding by readily<br />
abandoning ecological processes to fulfill<br />
its goals of aesthetics and its place within<br />
society; humanist goals. Houston et. al.<br />
(2017) argues that conventional planning<br />
theory has always been imbued with a<br />
sense of ontological exceptionalism of<br />
humans. There is an urgent need for us<br />
to decipher who should speak for the<br />
nonhumanwhen we are planning within<br />
the built environment . This undeniable<br />
focus of landscape urbanism projects<br />
to fit in with its surrounding built<br />
environment by appealing to humanist<br />
ideals is understandable as first steps<br />
within a lengthy process to get people<br />
to reimagine their built environment but<br />
do little to incorporate the needs of the<br />
natural world that does share the urban<br />
environment, and do little to embrace<br />
complexity and flux as dictated within the<br />
manifesto (Waldheim, 2016).<br />
How is Ecological Urbanism<br />
Different?<br />
Drawing from ecology to inspire a<br />
new form of urbanism, one that is socially<br />
inclusive and sensitive to the natural<br />
environment, Ecological urbanism is a<br />
more holistic approach towards designing<br />
and managing cities, drawn from the<br />
critiques of Landscape Urbanism (Gili,<br />
1998). Ecological Urbanism takes on a<br />
systems-based approach that integrates<br />
and designs complex systems and social<br />
processes within the urban environment<br />
that are fundamentally humane (Indy,<br />
2010). It is impossible not to acknowledge<br />
that cities are naturally extractive entities<br />
that feed off the resources around them,<br />
but it is worthy to think about how we can<br />
shift towards a sustainable productive<br />
mode that is more environmentally just.<br />
Charles Anderson (2013) took<br />
the idea of ecological urbanism further<br />
and developed a strand of environmental<br />
urbanism that revolves around BIG<br />
nature, a design ethic that takes into<br />
account environmentally entropic<br />
processes, a realization ofa nature<br />
thrives within the built environment, that<br />
comprises the past, present and future. In<br />
a studio that he conducted in conjunction<br />
with the University of South California, he<br />
quoted “ Nature will find a way during the<br />
process of adaptation to embrace the<br />
changes that came before, are in process<br />
and those that will be anticipated”. (USC,<br />
2013). This is followed by the coining<br />
of the term of ‘Urbanature’ by Nichols<br />
(2009) which breaks down the dichotomy<br />
between nature and city. Nichols (2009)<br />
argues that a key concept that Thoreau<br />
(1851) brought up in his essay, ‘Walking’<br />
distinguishes the difference between<br />
wilderness and wildness. Wildness can<br />
be characterized as man’s connection<br />
to nature that is present within society,<br />
where wilderness is nature in its pristine<br />
state and preserved to stay that way.<br />
Nichols (2009) elaborated furthered<br />
Thoreau’s (1851) argument that it is in<br />
wildness, that our world is preserved. This<br />
wildness within our urban environment<br />
starts with an acknowledgement that<br />
animals and humans are interconnected<br />
in a web of complex ecosystems.<br />
Drawing from Morton (2009) to<br />
suggest that we need to do away with<br />
traditional conceptions of nature, this<br />
acknowledgement includes an implicit<br />
understanding that we are never cut<br />
away from nature, and that traditional<br />
ecological preservation efforts are not<br />
enough. Therefore, for us to be able to<br />
truly grasp and manage the ecological<br />
complexity and flux within landscape<br />
and ecological urbanism, we need<br />
to plan for animals and other nonhuman<br />
creatures and acknowledge that<br />
humanity is part of nature. Using this as<br />
a starting point, can we answer broader<br />
questions about our place within the<br />
ecosystem and our relationships with<br />
nature. Charles Anderson (2013) took<br />
the idea of ecological urbanism further<br />
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Figure 2: Olympic Sculpture Park,<br />
However, there seems to be some<br />
deviation and gaps between the ideas of<br />
Anderson (2013) and Nichols (2012),<br />
signaling varying strands of interpretation<br />
of Ecological Urbanism at large. Within<br />
Charles Anderson’s work on the Olympic<br />
Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington<br />
(Figure 2), the project was designed<br />
to highlight the vital natural processes<br />
that support our human-centered world,<br />
encouraging a paradigmatic shift within<br />
nature-human relationships which is<br />
not that drastic at all. Nichols (2012)’s<br />
book about ‘Urbanature’ did little to<br />
showcase next steps of how cities<br />
should be developed and only works to<br />
reaffirm the design work of Anderson<br />
and his colleagues as the current gold<br />
standard within landscape projects. In<br />
this manner, it can be further argued that<br />
Ecological Urbanism in its most extreme<br />
form is still anthropocentric in its nature<br />
because it does little to incorporate<br />
the natural world within urban design<br />
beyond a simple nod in its direction to<br />
acknowledge the relationship that nature<br />
has on our urban environments.<br />
Ecological Urbanism as an<br />
elaboration of Landscape Urbanism<br />
does little in critiquing the ontological<br />
exceptionalism of humans within<br />
planning theory and cannot be counted<br />
as a paradigm shift. Other landscape<br />
projects that Anderson take up like the<br />
Phoenix Stadium in Haiti all echo similar<br />
sentiments of anthropocentric design<br />
strategies that seek to alleviate social<br />
problems through edible gardens, and<br />
fish rearing through the veil of Ecological<br />
Urbanism without any considerations<br />
of the rehabilitation of biodiversity or<br />
ecological systemic analysis, evoking<br />
semblance of critiques towards Marris’<br />
(2013) arguments of new nature. It must<br />
be mentioned that concepts of systemic<br />
analysis and species diversity should not<br />
be subjected again to a ‘wildness v.s.<br />
wilderness’ dichotomy as it strays from<br />
understanding the city as an ecosystem<br />
and only seeks to further cement the<br />
dichotomous idea of nature and city<br />
which we already know does little to help<br />
with ecological preservation efforts.<br />
Yet, Ecological Urbanism seems<br />
to be gaining popularity worldwide.<br />
“Create the space and animals will<br />
come” from the newly released Planet<br />
Earth II featured the city of Singapore<br />
as a model of ecological urbanism<br />
that all cities should aspire towards to<br />
in incorporating nature into the city.<br />
Gardens by the Bay in Singapore was<br />
designed and built with non-human<br />
others in mind. Yet, Hicks (2017), critical<br />
of Planet Earth II showcase of Singapore<br />
as exemplary, argued that despite claims<br />
of the increase in biodiversity in the<br />
surrounding areas of the Gardens, most<br />
of the plant species that the gardens<br />
have are non-native. These gardens are<br />
only friendly structures for animals that<br />
can adapt to man-made structures and<br />
are not wary of people. This excludes<br />
most of the native species that resided in<br />
the area. Whilst that might be true, Hicks<br />
(2017) took on a classical ecological<br />
conservation approach as he laments<br />
the loss of wild areas and questions the<br />
positive effects of greening the urban<br />
environment (Hicks, 2017).<br />
Ecological Urbanism by itself<br />
therefore contributes to the dichotomy<br />
between nature and city because it<br />
distracts efforts and further delineate<br />
ecologists and landscape architects<br />
within philosophical lines of their own<br />
understandings of what nature is and<br />
how urban planning and landscape<br />
architecture should be, purely by visibly<br />
portraying and manufacturing the nature<br />
they as humans envision. This imbues<br />
Ecological Urbanism with layers of<br />
anthropocentric meaning that deviates it<br />
from the lofty goals it set out to do in the<br />
first place. There is a clear delineation<br />
between construing human action as<br />
nature and the reconstruction of nature<br />
by humans.<br />
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Constructing Zootopia: First<br />
Steps of a Lengthy Process<br />
What we need now beyond<br />
the promises of Ecological Urbanism<br />
and Landscape Urbanism is a serious<br />
consideration of non-human subjects<br />
and their place and roles within the<br />
urban ecosystem. This takes the whole<br />
mantra of “Create the space and animals<br />
will come” approach a few steps further<br />
by firstly acknowledging that we are<br />
not dealing with a tabula rasa but an<br />
already thriving ecosystem that was not<br />
inhabited with humans. This form of ‘rewilding<br />
envisions a new form of urbanism<br />
that incorporates animals and plants,<br />
and seeks to change the way urban<br />
ecosystems are shaped (Wolch and<br />
Emel, 1995). Donovan (2015) chronicles<br />
the wild creatures that already inhabit<br />
our urban landscape and how they are<br />
adjusting within the urban terrain.<br />
Ecological Urbanism needs to<br />
consider the site in situ and the species<br />
that already exist in the area instead of<br />
implementing flashy altruistic projects<br />
that seem to enhance neoliberal<br />
environmental thought instead of<br />
a serious consideration of local<br />
ecosystems. Urban ecosystems can be<br />
extremely diverse and only come grab<br />
attention when conflicts between humans<br />
and animals occur (Beatley and Bekoff,<br />
2013). There is no driving consensus<br />
as to how humans should deal with<br />
environmental conflicts with animals in<br />
the urban environments besides culling.<br />
There are insufficient visible connections<br />
between humans living in the cities and<br />
the natural world. This results in urban<br />
ecosystems often being forgotten (Basta<br />
and Moroni, 2013). Ecological Urbanism<br />
needs to be more holistic and really<br />
understand the complexity and flux with<br />
urban ecosystems at large and posits<br />
itself from a non-humanistic approach<br />
for a paradigm shift to happen. An nonhumanistic<br />
approach towards landscape<br />
thinking is required to broaden the<br />
concepts of Landscape Urbanism and<br />
Ecological Urbanism.<br />
It is important now for one to<br />
consider the various tenuous questions<br />
that are intricately linked to a nonhumane<br />
approach towards planning<br />
and designing cities. How can planning<br />
and designing be non-humane if the<br />
production of means are essentially<br />
human? How do we embrace complexity<br />
and flux if we still need deterministic<br />
tangible outcomes from our surrounding<br />
built environment? Is this untaming or<br />
taming the urban? How do we distill<br />
something so abstract and distill it<br />
into something tangible that planners/<br />
designers can implement? These are<br />
some of the questions that we need to<br />
address as we move towards a more<br />
decentralized, less anthropocentric form<br />
of planning and urban design. The need<br />
for socially and environmentally inclusive<br />
planning and design does not need to<br />
stem from a complex non-humanist<br />
philosophical approach but from a simple<br />
acknowledgment that the dichotomy of<br />
nature and the city does not exist and<br />
that urban ecosystems are essential for<br />
the functioning and workings of the city<br />
within a context of climate vulnerability<br />
and change.<br />
Current urban environments<br />
often present nature and urban lifestyles<br />
in conflict and mutually exclusive. A nonanthropocentric<br />
line of urban thinking<br />
seeks to turn this concept on its head, by<br />
integrating humans into natural systems.<br />
Blue and Alexander (2015) illustrated the<br />
example of coyotes attacking domestic<br />
animals in Toronto. We need to transcend<br />
our tidy geographical imaginaries of<br />
what belongs in the city and what<br />
does not. This involves a recognition of<br />
nonhuman agency in shaping our own<br />
perceptions of space and place. In their<br />
article, Houston et. al. (2017) argued two<br />
possible directions for non-humanistic<br />
urban planning to develop: Multi-species<br />
entanglement and becoming-world.<br />
These two theories have potential to help<br />
develop habitable non-anthropocentric<br />
urban futures.<br />
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Within<br />
multi-species<br />
entanglement, Weir (2008) broadened<br />
the concept of connectivity thinking<br />
that has had a lot of influence within<br />
conventional planning theory, focusing<br />
on different ecological interactions that<br />
spans within temporal and spatial scales.<br />
Developed alongside with an ‘ethics of<br />
entanglement’ that will serve to govern<br />
the interactions between ecological<br />
subjects and the system they live in,<br />
connectivity thinking now expands urban<br />
planning to include the connections<br />
we have with the natural world, and<br />
resituate the human within ecological<br />
systems (Wright, 2014). The concept of<br />
multi-species entanglement will have<br />
the prospect to aid in planning decisions<br />
with regards to resource management,<br />
control responses during mosquito<br />
outbreaks and the viability of bioregions.<br />
This will reduce exaggerating harmless<br />
ecological interactions and drives an<br />
acceptance of our entanglements with<br />
the natural world without ‘idealisation or<br />
despair’ (Houston, 2017; Wright, 2014).<br />
‘Becoming world’ is the concept<br />
of not creating a dichotomy between<br />
humans and those who are different<br />
and do not share the same mode of<br />
consciousness as us. It is the recognition<br />
of voices of non-humans in helping<br />
planners to plan regional land-use and not<br />
reduce them to entities or organisms that<br />
can only seek to better the human urban<br />
world (Johnston, 2008). This concept<br />
presents a starting point for urban<br />
planning to recognize other life forms<br />
and deconstruct our own ontological<br />
exceptionalism. It is the bringing about of<br />
a common endeavor within living and a<br />
collaborative approach towards decision<br />
making within planning and design to<br />
realize an equilibrium (Brown, 2007).<br />
Collard (2012) identifies ‘becoming world’<br />
as a process that manifests temporally<br />
where safe spaces are made and<br />
unmade between animals and humans.<br />
This includes allowing for distance with<br />
potentially threatening species and<br />
intimacy with no threat of predation.<br />
There is a politics that humans<br />
and animals need to negotiate to be able<br />
to live together. This coincides with our<br />
understanding of landscape as a process.<br />
Furthermore, this non-anthropocentric<br />
urban thinking has already been<br />
implemented in Harmony, Florida, which<br />
argues for a co-existence line of thought.<br />
The Harmony Residential Owners<br />
Association created in 2002 established<br />
within its founding documents the<br />
peaceful coexistence of humans and<br />
wild animals, articulating an urban<br />
philosophy that preserves and natural<br />
elements from human action within the<br />
built environment. reducing, the amount<br />
of conflict between humans and wildlife<br />
(Harmony ROA, 2002). Studied by Wolch<br />
and Seymour (2009) who coined the term,<br />
‘Zoopolis’, she quotes Harmony as a good<br />
example of trans-species urban practice<br />
that involves a specialized combination<br />
of management and grassroots activism.<br />
Yet, the town treads a fine balance<br />
between accidentally creating an ecotourism<br />
resort and planning for a proper<br />
self-sustaining town.<br />
Another example cited by Beatley<br />
and Newman (2013) is the Vancouver’s<br />
Co-existing with Coyotes program that<br />
emphasizes a combination of education,<br />
awareness raising and non-lethal<br />
responses to coyote human conflicts to<br />
illustrate the two-pronged approach of<br />
making urban populations aware of their<br />
species entanglement with the natural<br />
world and planning with animals in mind.<br />
Drawing from Landscape<br />
Urbanism and Ecological<br />
Urbanism<br />
This, however does not render<br />
the ideas of Landscape Urbanism and<br />
Ecological Urbanism useless. If anything,<br />
both concepts have initiated the shift<br />
away from human subjectivity within<br />
urban environments and a starting point<br />
for us to consider ethical engagements<br />
and the political possibilities of nonanthropocentric<br />
urban planning.<br />
Landscape Urbanism has<br />
introduced the landscape as a building<br />
block for the city, suggesting a macroperspective<br />
and a temporal take on<br />
how we should design and plan cities.<br />
Ecological urbanism acknowledges the<br />
complex social environmental forces<br />
at work within the city and aimed to<br />
connect urban ecology with landscape<br />
architecture in order to bring about<br />
a more holistic approach towards<br />
designing and planning cities. Both<br />
cities, though with good intentions have<br />
reinforced the ontological exceptionalism<br />
of humans, bending the will of nature in<br />
subservience to our urban environment.<br />
I argued that more can be done within<br />
Ecological Urbanism by viewing humans<br />
as natural subjects and acknowledging<br />
our links and connections with the<br />
natural world. Currently, Ecological<br />
Urbanism does not do much in evolving<br />
the ideas of Landscape Urbanism, as<br />
much as serving the role of elaborating<br />
previously abstract concepts. More can<br />
be done within Ecological Urbanism<br />
and a good way to start would be to<br />
decentralize urban planning from serving<br />
the needs and demands of humans<br />
and acknowledging that nature always<br />
belonged within the city. A good way to<br />
start is to focus more human energies<br />
within environmental planning. This<br />
includes a simple rejection of the binary<br />
between wildness and wilderness<br />
and calls for a more comprehensive<br />
understanding of nonhuman animals<br />
that inhabit the city. A lot more that<br />
needs and can be done for us to move<br />
into inhabitable nonhuman urban futures<br />
and it involves us reconnecting with our<br />
natural world.<br />
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