Urban Habitat? Oh, you mean People?

A link in the previous post alerted me to a strangely monikered organization with a very cool focus - integrating urban habitat with tall buildings. From their site: "The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat studies and reports on all aspects of the planning, design, construction and operation of tall buildings. Also of a major concern is the role and impact of tall buildings on the urban environment. Our membership—uniquely interdisciplinary—includes some of the world's top authorities in their specific profession."

A video tells more about CTBUH:

Further investigations led me to understand this trend-setting vegitectural organization has been around since 1969: "Founded in 1969, the Council’s mission is to disseminate multi-disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved in creating the built environment, and to make the latest knowledge available to professionals in a useful form."

That is, of course, before I realized that by 'urban habitat' they meant people and not ecological systems of flora and fauna. What a strange way of describing city-dwellers - habitat? :) I shall do a bit of digging to see if there is in fact any resources on the literal greening of tall buildings, and will report back with findings.