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A New Adaptive Landscape: Urbanization As A Strong Evolutionary Force, Lauren Christie Breza
A New Adaptive Landscape: Urbanization As A Strong Evolutionary Force, Lauren Christie Breza
Masters Theses
Urbanization is rapidly increasing as human population growth steadily grows, but there is little consensus of the ecological consequence of this population shift and almost no information of the evolutionary consequences for local biodiversity. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in city centers by 2050 with profound impacts on landscapes that can act as important agents of selection. This study aims to identify 1) the net effect of urbanization on species richness, 2) how phylogenetic diversity varies between urban and rural sites, and 3) the strength of urbanization as a selection pressure. First, a meta-analysis was conducted in …
On The Road To The In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbanisation In Chicago’S ‘Crosstown Corridor’, Jean-Paul Addie
On The Road To The In-Between City: Excavating Peripheral Urbanisation In Chicago’S ‘Crosstown Corridor’, Jean-Paul Addie
USI Publications
This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity, and mobility in contemporary neoliberal urban landscapes by uncovering the path dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburbia. Departing from contemporary debates on the evolving geography of urban peripheries, I utilize a relational theorization of the ‘in-between city’ to empirically unpack the urbanization processes internalized in the evolution of the ‘Zwischenstadt’ in a North American context. Through a longue durée case study of transportation planning, politics, and spatial practice in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’, in-between urbanization is demonstrated to express an on-going multiscalar mediation of co-habiting modes …