{"id":714,"date":"2014-03-13T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nextgensd.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2023-07-19T03:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T03:18:01","slug":"the-urban-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/es\/the-urban-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urban Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"714\" class=\"elementor elementor-714\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-13428cc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"13428cc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-169cf95\" data-id=\"169cf95\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d532a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4d532a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Urban-Desert-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-19943\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Urban-Desert-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Urban-Desert-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Urban-Desert-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nextgensd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/The-Urban-Desert.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66c94002 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66c94002\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<strong>Convener:<\/strong> Lucero Radonic\n<strong>Participants:<\/strong> Bill Broyles, Helen Ingram, Natalia Martinez, Rodrigo Renteria\nThis small session was convened to discuss the political ecology of urban spaces in the Sonoran Desert. As cities in this region continue to expand, it is important to incorporate the built environment and urban resource users into our realm of study \u2013be it in the life sciences or the social sciences.\nThe discussion went along two lines: 1) The importance of educating the public about the value of their surrounding ecosystem, and 2) cross-disciplinary communication, especially between natural and social scientists working in the desert and the urban planners and developers who are materially shaping the desert.\nUrban planning as a discipline has traditionally followed an algorithm that rarely recognizes the particularities of local ecological and social systems. In the case of this region, this means that the ecological richness and fragility of the Sonoran Desert is often not acknowledged when issues of urban zoning are on the table. Participants agreed that regional urban growth is characterized by an economy of denial where the long-term cost of sustaining cities at their current rate of energy consumption and expansion is dismissed. For example, green lawns and outsized parking lots \u2013portrayed as signs of social prestige and economic progress\u2013 continue to proliferate at a high cost to limited water supplies and open areas.\nIn light of this discussion, the following question emerged: how can we \u2013as engaged researchers\u2013 inform urban growth with a \u2018sense of place\u2019 that is rooted in the Sonoran Desert? As a framework, \u201csense of place\u2019 summarizes the ideal that the physical layout of a community should connect people to their surrounding environment and to each other.\n<ol>\n\t<li><strong>Education:<\/strong> A travelling exhibit that presents desirable examples of sustainable urban desert life to an audience of urban consumers and real-estate developers.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Communication:<\/strong> Researchers studying urban environments could establish professional connections with urban planning and architecture departments in their institutions. Early steps include recruiting planning students into general anthropology\/natural resource management courses and sharing reading lists with planning\/architecture faculty members\/students.<\/li>\n\t<li><strong>Research:<\/strong> Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers should consider expanding or deepening their study of urban ecosystems. 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