In this talk Tim Beatley, who teaches urban planning at University of Virginia, will review ideas and practices for making cities bird-friendly. From bird-safe glass to lights-out programs to planting native species of trees, he will discuss the range of specific steps that cities and towns can take in support of birds. Much of the talk will include ideas and material from Beatley’s recent book The Bird-Friendly City (Island Press, 2020).

Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for more than thirty years. Beatley is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, including Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age, and Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature Into Urban Design and Planning, and The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Environments (Island Press,2020).  His latest book is The Ethics of Cities (UNC Press 2024). For 10 years Beatley wrote a column for Planning Magazine called Ever Green.  Beatley directs the Biophilic Cities Project at UVA (http://biophiliccities.org/) and co-founded UVA’s Center for Design and Health, within the School of Architecture. He is currently in the process of establishing a new center at UVA–the Center for Forest Urbanism–with seed funding from the Jefferson Trust.

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Image: Tim Beatley