Some Key Ideas for Advancing the Vision of Blue Urbanism

• Published in: Journal of Global and Area Studies , 6(1) pp. 23 - 42
• Main Author: Timothy Beatley
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 글로벌지역학연구소 30.06.2022
• Subjects: 지역학
• ISSN: 2586-0305; 2586-3797
• DOI: 10.31720/JGA.6.1.2

Blue Urbanism represents a new way of seeing and understanding cities on the blue planet. Coastal cities (especially) must more fully embrace the marine world and can do many things to connect their residents to the wondrous marine world nearby. This article explores a number of innovative ideas for doing this, and for advancing this new vision of urbanism. From designing new parks that provide direct physical access to water, to creative ways to use digital and camera technologies to project marine life into the human spaces of a city there will many ways a city can cultivate a sense of marine awareness and caring. An important set of ideas has to do with the need to adjust our maps to better reflect and depict the remarkable marine life around us, and so to adjust our perception of the city and nature in the city to include the marine world. There are also things that cities can do for more distant nature, lending political and financial support for the expansion of globally of marine protected areas, and through ideas like establishing Ocean Sister Cities, that will build awareness and emotional connections to marine habitats and organisms in more distant places. KCI Citation Count: 0