Abstract
Blue biophilic cities represent a compelling new urban vision for the future, one appropriate both for the opportunities available and for the challenges faced by coastal cities. The marine nature all around can be the source of immense benefit for urban residents in the form of wonder, physical and mental health, purpose and meaning. At the same time, blue biophilic cities can exert leadership in ocean conservation and serve as a pioneer in shaping new and more sustainable relationships with the marine world (e.g. by re-thinking what they harvest from and grow in the ocean). It is hoped that the stories told, and the examples and ideas presented, in this book are just the beginning, and that blue biophilic cities will continue to innovate and continue to imagine and explore new connections to the marine environment.
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See “Goal 11 Targets,” found at: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/cities/
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For an excellent review of that history, see Tim Wijgerde, “Victorian Pioneers of the Marine Aquarium,” found at: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2016/2/aafeature2
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Philip Henry Goss, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, London: J. Van Voorst, 1856.
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Ann Thwaite, Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Goss, Faber and Faber, 2002.
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Ed Yong, “Humpback Whales Remix Their Old Songs.”
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“Australia’s Most Bizarre Creatures Uncovered in Deep Sea Expedition,” found at: https://particle.scitech.org.au/earth/australias-bizarre-creatures-uncovered-deep-sea-expedition/
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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E.O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, Norton, 2017.
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Michael Slezak, “Australia’s Marine Parks Face Cuts to Protected Areas,” The Guardian, July 21, 2017, found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/21/turnbull-government-plans-further-cuts-to-fishing-protection-zones?CMP=share_btn_tw
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See the discussion of the idea of ocean sister cities in Beatley , Blue Urbanism, Island Press, 2014, pp. 152–153.
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Beatley, T. (2018). Conclusions and Trajectories: Future Cities that are Blue and Biophilic. In: Blue Biophilic Cities. Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67955-6_7
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