This article describes an urban experiment in community-based robotics deployed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 2007 and 2008. Twenty-one community-based organizations deployed robotics workshops, exhibits and curated pieces throughout the city, creating a space for technology fluency and exposition throughout the urban landscape, from galleries and schools to parks. The details of the creat...

Changes in community composition are an important, but hard to predict, effect of climate change. Here, we use a wild-bee study system to test the ability of critical thermal maxima (CTmax, a measure of heat tolerance) to predict community responses to urban heat-island effects in Raleigh, NC, USA. Among 15 focal species, CTmax ranged from 44.6 to 51.3°C, and was strongly predictive of populati...

-The avian community of a mature residential area was studied and compared with an undisturbed climax beech-maple forest. Urbanization was presumed to be responsible for decreasing species richness and diversity, increasing biomass and density, and favoring dominance by a few species. Foraging guilds shifted from forest insectivores that were canopy foliage gleaners or bark drillers to urban gr...

Our research group “Participatory local community” (Palco) presented three years ago, at the Prato conference, our first paper on CI and urban planning. Since then, we have continued to conduct research on, with and by communities in which CI is being applied. As our research has produced a set of varying results and concepts around the use of CI, we wished to conduct a meta-analysis of our wor...

Data are presented which suggest that cigarette smoking, and to a lesser degree, urban pollution as indexed by benzo[a]pyrene are etiologic factors in the causation of lung cancer. The dose--response relationship to benzo[a]pyrene to lung cancer death rate in the urban community was estimated by using data on lung cancer deaths among coke oven workers. It appears to be an excess of 2--5 mumg/m3...

in recent decades, the theory of sustainable development has been introduced to several strands of science. this theory and its special view to communities (sustainable community development) as the cell of urban life, demonstrates the solution to urban problems by highlighting the meaning of city neighborhoods. in the local scale, it is essential to use a collaborative process of development, ...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) courses are teaching public health and urban planning students how to assess the likely health effects of proposed policies, plans, and projects. We suggest that public health and urban planning have complimentary frameworks for training practitioners to address the living conditions that affect health. Planning perspectives emphasize practical skills for impactin...

Urban poverty, of which New York City has the highest incidence, is associated with unmet needs and inappropriate use of emergency rooms and hospitals. Community-based medical practitioners can ameliorate these situations. Medical students from New York City-area schools often are willing to help. The New York Academy of Medicine instituted an Urban Health Initiative to coordinate student and f...

The purpose of this article is to describe a community-based science project that was coproduced with urban teenagers and to elaborate on my understanding of what it means to create a practicing culture of science learning. This understanding will be positioned in relation to various educationally relevant discourses and research on urban science education, concluding with an exploration of the...