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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 />

Graduate Seminar Theories of Landscape Architecture Spring 2016


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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