Center for Urban Restoration Ecology · Historical archive
Repairing nature
where cities grow.
CURE brought ecologists, educators and land managers together to understand—and restore—degraded urban lands.
Established as a joint initiativeRutgers University + Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Recovered collectionResearch, teaching and institutional records
Historical period representedMaterials published from the early 2000s onward
Explore the collection
Follow the question that brought you here.
Why urban restoration?
Read the Center’s original case for studying and repairing human-dominated landscapes.
→02What did the Center study?
Explore work on forests, wetlands, landfills, invasive plants and metropolitan biodiversity.
→03How was knowledge taught?
Review the university, professional and public education programs described by CURE.
→04Browse the records
Open the recovered course descriptions, people, facilities and publication records.
→The original premise
“The Center for Urban Restoration Ecology is the first scientific initiative in the U.S. established specifically to study and restore human-dominated lands.”
From the Center’s recovered introduction
Planning, plant selection, invasive-species control and public involvement.
↗Course record · October 2002Ecology & Control of Invasive Plant SpeciesA two-day professional program spanning biology, control methods and the human dynamic.
↗Course record · November 2002Stream RestorationA four-day field and classroom program in assessment, design and monitoring.
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