ABSTRACT
Networks cut across communities with their own kind of territoriality, analogous to the long migrations of geese and hawks. One dimension of the initial design phase entails breakdown of characteristics of habitat types, biotic/abiotic formations defined by dominant plant communities, prevailing climate, soils, disturbance regimes. An ecologically supportive patterning of builtscapes and landscape infrastructures - hard, soft, gray, and green - relies on informed judgment as to when to encourage crossings between habitat boundaries and when to sharpen these distinctions. In an approach best described as regionalist biomimicry, high-profile or 'flagship' species with desired formal and behavioral qualities could inspire the design or architectural and configurations. Natural scientists might rightfully scrutinize the lack of definitiveness of ecological goals articulated in association with a design undertaking and follow up evaluations resting on assumptions about the reintroduction of core habitat, the desirability and size of buffer zones, the advantages for urban wildlife linkages, the impacts on certain species and so on.
