LARC363 Ecological Design and Planning

Welcome to Ecological Design and Planning!
This website will serve as our primary information gateway throughout the quarter so please check back regularly
for updates to the schedule, reading lists, projects, guest lectures, related events, interesting websites, field trips...

	week 9.
	Assignments: Site Reading 3 due Wednesday, 5/28/08, noon Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures . T, 5/27, 8:30AM: The Role of Residuals from Water Treatment in Sustainability (think sewage!) . M, 6/2, 3:30: Lessons Learned from the Spartina Battle in Willapa Bay, WA . T, 6/3, 8:30AM: Incorporating Stream-wood Dynamics into Landscape-scale Management and Restoration . Planning
5/28/08 W	Rethinking Infrastructure: an Argument for the Elegant and the Sublime readings: . Strang, G. Infrastructure as Landscape . Wenk, W. Toward an Inclusive Concept of Infrastructure . Hammarby-Sjostad, Stockholm (website, click "In English") recommended: . Liptan and Murase, Water Gardens as Stormwater Infrastructure
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5/30/08 F	Infrastructure, Con't. referencess: . Hill, K. and J. Barnett, Rising Seas (DRAFT) . Casey Trees Foundation and LimnoTech (2007) "Green Build-out Model, Washington, DC"
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next week:	6.4- no lecture- studio reviews 3-5:30 6.6- optional class: student presentations of final projects?

	week 8.
	Assignments: Site Reading 4 due Friday, 5/23/08 Site Reading 3 due Wednesday, 5/28/08, noon Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures . M, 3:30PM: Environmental Seminar Series . T, 8:30AM: Water Center Seminar Series
5/21/08 W	Water in Urban Environments readings: . Hough, M. (2005) Cities and Natural Processes: Water (Handout in class) . Seattle Public Utilities: Natural Drainage Systems (website) . Low Impact Development Manual (pdf) . High Point Project (website)
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5/23/08 F	Field Trip 3: Urban Hydrology with guest Peggy Gaynor (see field trip description) . meet at Gould loading dock . 12-1:30 - required field trip . 1:30-5:30 - optional field trip continues referencess: . Seattle Public Utilities: Street Edge Alternatives, 110th Cascade, Broadview Grid (website) . Thornton Creek Headwaters Water Quality Channel (website) . Thornton Creek Watershed (Homewaters Project) . Peggy Gaynor (website): See Ravenna Creek, Meadowbrook Pond, Meadowbrook Wetlands, Thornton Creek, SEA Streets

	week 7.
	Assignments: Group project due Monday, 5/12/08 Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures . M, 5/12, 3:30PM: Environmental Factors Governing Amphibian Reproduction Within Stormwater Detention Ponds (Amy Yahnke) . T, 5/13, 8:30AM: Phytoremediation of Organic Pollutants (Sharon Doty ) . TH, 5/15, 4:00PM: Homing Patterns of Wild and Supplemented Spring Chinook Salmon Within a Watershed: Tradeoffs Between Homing and Spawning Site Selection (Andy Dittman)
5/14/08 W	Connecting Hydrology & Biology in Urban Landscapes: The Case of Salmon, Streams & Seattle Guest lecture: Ken Yocom, PhD, Project Scientist at EDA Adolfson readings: . Walsh, et al., The Urban Stream Syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure (note: this is available on e-reseves but not in the printed packet)
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5/16/08 F	No class (Note: studio field trip to Vancouver, BC)

next weeks:	5.21- Water in the Urban Landscape 5.23- Urban Hydrology field trip with Peggy Gaynor

	week 6 .
	Assignments: Group project due next Monday, 5/12/08 Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures .
5/7/08 W	Landscape, Species and Other Approaches: Application of Ecological Understanding in Conservation, Design & Planning readings: . Steinitz, C. ed. An Alternative Future for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California (website) recommended or revisit: . Puget Sound Partnership (website) . Puget Sound Partnership: Technical Reports . Seattle Public Utilities: Habitat Conservation Plan
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5/9/08 F	Approaches, continued: Downsview Park, Toronto and Urban Habitat Corridors readings: . Hill, Urban Ecologies: Biodiversity and Urban Design . Noss, Greenways as Wildlife Corridors . Tewksbury, Corridors affect plants, animals and their interactions in fragmented landscapes

next weeks:	5.14- Connecting Hydrology & Biology in Urban Landscapes: The Case of Salmon, Streams & Seattle Guest lecture: Ken Yocom, PhD, Project Scientist at EDA Adolfson 5.16- No Class (field trip to Vancouver) 5.21- Science, Policy and Design: Water in the Urban Landscape 5.23- Urban Hydrology field trip with Peggy Gaynor

	week 5.
	Lecture Options: check the resources page for links to seminars and lectures Field Trip: Saturday, May 3, 8AM . meet at the Gould loading dock promptly at 8AM
4/30/08 W	Designing Terrestrial Landscapes with the Nearshore in Mind Guest lecture: Sarah Preisler, SvR Design Company readings: . Carr, Comparing marine and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for the design of coastal marine reserves . Stoms, Integrated coastal reserve planning: making the land-sea connection recommended websites: . WDFW papers: Overwater Structures and Shoreline Modification Issues . King County: State of the Nearshore Report . King County: Shoreline Ecology . King County: Draft Shoreline Master Program and Final Technical Appendix- King County . King County: Puget Sound Shoreline Stewardship Guidebook . King County: Natural Resources Publications . Washington Sea Grant
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5/2/08 F	Salmon Biology and the Nearshore Environment Guest lecture: Jason Toft, UW Wetland Ecostystem Team readings: . WRIA 9- Green Duwamish Watershed: Salmon Habitat Information and Reports . Puget Sound Partnership: Technical Reports . Seattle Public Utilities: Habitat Conservation Plan

	week 4 .
	Assignment Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures .
4/23/08 W	Approaching Design: Considerations and Frameworks readings: . Felson, Designed Experiments: New approaches to urban ecosystems . Haddon, On the Escape of Tigers: An Ecological Note (handout) recommended or revisit: . McHarg, The City Process and Form . Steinitz, C. ed. An Alternative Future for the Region of Camp Pendleton, California (website) . Puget Sound Partnership (website)
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4/25/08 F	Climate Change and Species Diversity. Guest lecture: Dr. Joshua Lawler, UW, College of Forest Resources readings: . IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) you might start with the summary report . Washington Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (website) and Biodiversity Strategy (website) . Local Action for Biodiversity (King County) (website)

	week 3 .
	Assignment 2 due Friday 4/18/08 at midnight Lecture Options: check the resources page for more links to seminars and lectures . M, 4/14, 3:30PM: "Conservation at the Human-Wildlife Interface: Diversity and Ecological Function of Bats in the Coffee Agroecosystems of Chiapas, Mexico " (Kimberly Williams-Guillen) . T, 4/15, 8:30AM: "Anadromy and the Life History of Salmonid Fishes" (Tom Quinn) (note schedule change) . T, 4/15, 6:30PM: "Organism and Environment: The Organism as Subject and Object of Evolution" (Richard Lewontin) . TH, 4/17, 4:00PM: Oceans, Climate Change and the Pacific Northwest (Jane Lubchenco) . F 4/18, 8:30-4:30: College of Forest Resources Annual Review of Research
4/16/08 W	Dynamic Landscapes: Processes and Landscape Memory; Working within the System readings: . Hill, Green Good, Better, Best . White, Indian Land Use and Environmental Change: Island County Washington, A Case Study . excerpts from Hill and Johnson, Ecology and Design recommended or revisit: . Hill, Shifting Sites (week 1) . Corner, Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity (week 1) . Leopold, An Ecological History of Old Prairie Areas in Southwestern Washington
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4/18/08 F	Dynamic Landscapes: Resilence and Biodiversity readings: . Holling, Surprise for Science, Resilience for Ecosystems, Incentives for People Please also read one of the following 4 papers (according to the first letter of your last name) and come to class on Friday prepared to discuss your paper: . (A-E) Colding, 'Ecological land-use complementation’ for building resilience in urban ecosystems . (F-H) Folke, Regime shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management . (K-P) Folke, The emergence of a perspective for social-ecological systems analyses . (R-Z) Pickett, Resilient cities: meaning, models, and metaphor for integrating the ecological, socio-economic, and planning realms web: Resilience Alliance

	week 2 .
	Assignment 1 due Thursday 4/10/08 at midnight Lecture Option: check the resources page for links to seminars and lectures
4/9/08 W	Ecological Design: foundations & influences from Ecology and Environmental Art readings: . Beardsley, A Word for Landscape Architecture . Shane, The Emergence of Landscape Urbanism . Spirn, Constructing Nature recommended: . Landscape Journal, 1998 (on reserve)
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4/11/08 F	Dynamic Landscapes: Cycles & Flows readings: ... see 4/16/08 *(1:30-5:30 studio field trip with David Williams - a long walk along the Magnolia shoreline)*

	week 1 .
4/2/08 W	Designing for non-equilibrium: resilience, redundancy, replication readings: . Hill, Shifting Sites . Corner, Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity . Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities web: Resilience Alliance
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4/4/08 F	Building a vocabulary for design: pattern & process, form & experience readings: . Hill, A process language . Dramstad et al, 1996 (handout) recommended: . Forman, 1995 (on reserve) . Lynch, 1960, ch. 3 (on reserve)