What if we design and plan cities with birds in mind? What would a bird-friendly city look like and feel like?

Timothy Beatley, a professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the Univ. of Virginia, will present the ideas and findings in his new book The Bird-Friendly City (Island Press, 2020).

Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, will take us on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. He will also place urban bird conservation efforts in the larger context of the global movement towards Biophilic Cities, cities that put nature at the center of their design and planning and that recognize the innate need for human connection with other species and the natural world.