Conceptual Model for Expanding Ecological Rationality through Social Learning in Resilient City Planning

This is an academic article or essay about urban resilience and the relationship between human settlements and natural ecosystems, with a focus on desert cities. It argues that contemporary urban growth disrupts ecological balance and weakens human-nature connections, contributing to a crisis of reduced urban resilience in the twenty-first century. The text proposes that ecological rationality, meaning evidence-based ideas and strategies, should be drawn from patterns of human-nature connection found in historic cities and applied to modern urban planning in order to support resilience and sustainability.