Hello

My name is K.C. Coleman. My obsessions lie in urban planning, landscape design, writing, and research. This blog exists as a place to publish interviews I’ve conducted, research into individual plants, and the thoughts I develop as I work on discovering how to build the best biophilic urban environment. (Don’t know what biophilia is? Check out the blog post “Biophilia: Step into the Ring.” We will explore the topics of the natural environment, the urban environment, plants, people, and the myriad ways in which they intersect.

I am seeking that core group, wherever these people are, who will redevelop dysfunctional cities into real communities with all spectra of wealth able to live well. These redeveloped places will have high concentrations of greenspace-to-building ratio with natural environment preservation as part of the regional plan. People, with their social and technological powers, can be interwoven back into the regenerative cycle of nature itself without a loss of economic power or freedom. Cities can flex and breathe, changing as the needs of people evolve throughout time, and we can support people in becoming stewards rather than consumers. Real change cannot be made through mandates, taxation, or self-sacrifice, but through wise urban designs and a healthy society living within the support created by those designs.

Essentially, we will talk about living on Earth and finding the best ways to go about it. Being that we all live, I find the subject rather interesting and I hope you will find my various investigations useful.

-K.C.