Making green cities : concepts, challenges and practice

Author(s)

• Breuste, Jürgen
• Artmann, Martina
• Ioja, Cristian
• Qureshi, Salman

Bibliographic Information

Making green cities : concepts, challenges and practice

Jürgen Breuste, editor ; Martina Artmann, Cristian Ioja, Salman Qureshi, co-editors

（Cities and nature / Danny Czamanski ... [et al.]）

Springer, c2023

2nd ed

Note

First ed.: c2020

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live. People, planners, designers and politicians are working towards the development of green cities. Some cities are already promoted as green cities, while others are on their way to become one. But their goals are often unclear and can include different facets. Presenting contributions from world leading researchers in the field of urban ecology, the editors provide an interdisciplinary overview of best practices and challenges in creating green cities. They show examples of how to build up these cities from bits and pieces to districts and urban extensions. Each example concludes with a summary of the collected knowledge, the learning points and how this can be used in other places. The best practices are collected from around the world - Europe, America and Asia. Contributions cover a wide range of biophysical and cultural backgrounds within these three continents, including the Central, Southern and Eastern European region, as well as Latin and North America. The new dynamic urban development of Asia is illustrated by case studies from China and the Indian subcontinent. The reader will learn which role nature can play in green cities and what the basic requirements are in terms of culture, pre-existing nature conditions, existing urban surroundings, history, design and planning.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAbout the Editors List of Contributors Part I - The Green City: General Concept Part Front Matter 1 What Does "The Green City" Mean? Jurgen Breuste 2 What Is Urban Nature? Jurgen Breuste 3 What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure? Jurgen Breuste 4 The Green City: General Concept Jurgen Breuste Part II - The Nature Concept - of What Urban Green Nature Consists of Part Front Matter 5 The Four Urban Natures Approach Jurgen Breuste 6 Urban Woodlands - Remnants of Pristine Landscape Jurgen Breuste 7 Public Urban Parks - Designed Urban Green Spaces Jurgen Breuste 8 Urban Gardens - The Private Urban Green Jurgen Breuste 9 Urban Waters - The Urban Blue Infrastructure Jurgen Breuste 10 New Urban Wildernesses - Novel Urban Ecosystems Jurgen Breuste Part III - The Benefit Concept - How People Can Benefit from Urban Nature Part Front Matter 11 What We Expect from Urban Nature Jurgen Breuste 12 Which Ecosystems Provide Which Ecosystem Services? Jurgen Breuste 13 How Can Urban Ecosystem Services Be Assessed? Jurgen Breuste 14 Biodiversity as an Urban Concept Jurgen Breuste Part IV - Urban Agriculture - More than Food Production Part Front Matter 15 Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria Jurgen Breuste and Martina Artmann 16 Community Garden Practices in High-density High-rise Urban Areas in Shanghai, China Yuelai Liu 17 Urban Gardening and Environmental Behavior of Urban Gardeners in Different Garden Forms in Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Breuste and Andreas Hufnagel 18 Investigations on Water Utilization and Water Management Practices in Urban/Peri Urban Agriculture of Bahawalpur, Pakistan Liaqat Ali Waseem and Jurgen Breuste 19 Edible City - a New Approach for Upscaling Local Food Supply? The Case of Andernach, Germany Martina Artmann and Katharina Sartison 20 New Forms of Urban Agriculture in Metropolitan Areas: Examples from Italy Daniel La Rosa 21 Structure and Processes of Home Gardens in Urban Landscape: The Case of Galle, Kandy, and Jaffna Cities in Sri Lanka Lalitha Dissanayake and M.M.G.S. Dilini Part V - Urban Wildland - Forests, Water and Wetlands Part Front Matter 22 Urban Forests in Megacities from the Perspective of Ecosystem Services Using the Timiryazevsky Forest Park, Moscow, as a Case Study M. Antonenko, D. Duskhova D. and T. Krasovskaya 23 Where the Rivers Were: Connecting Indigenous Blue Space to Contemporary City Design Jacob A. Napieralski 24 Sponge City Practices for Sustainable Water Solutions in China: Reflections from two Cases Yunfei Xu, Xiaobing Wang and Zhifang Wang 25 Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes on the Biodiversity of River Ravi, Lahore- Pakistan Safdar Ali Shirazi, Adeel Ahmad and Salman Qureshi 26 Rehabilitation of Riverbanks in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires: from Research to Action Anna Faggi and Jurgen Breuste 27 The Influence of Vacant Land Presence on Proliferation of Invasive Alien Plant Species. The case of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle var. Altissima Athanasios Alexandru Gavrilidis, Simona R. Gradinaru, Marilena Onete, Jurgen Breuste and Ioan Cristian Ioja 28 Forest Reserves in Urban Landscape: Case of Udawattakele and Dunumadalawa Forest Patches in Kandy, Sri Lanka Lalitha Dissanayake and Nilukshi Perera Part VI - Urban Protected Areas and Urban Biodiversity Part Front Matter 29 Bridging the People-Nature Divide Using the Participatory Planning of Urban Protected Areas Ioan-Cristian Ioja, Jurgen Breuste, Gabriel-Ovidiu Vanau, Constantina-Alina Hossu, Mihai-Razvan Nita, Ana-Maria Popa, Diana-Andreea Onose and Andreea-Raluca Slave 30 The Nature Outside Cities: Trade-Offs and Synergies of Cultural Ecosystem Services From Natura 2000 Sites Denisa Lavinia Badiu, Constantina Alina Hossu, Ioan Cristian Ioja and Mihai Razvan Nita 31 Urban Biodiversity Under Global Trends and Drivers - a Comparative Study of Urban Parks in Poznan (Poland) and Salzburg (Austria) Janina Borysiak, Jurgen Breuste and Andrzej Mizgajski 32 Relationship between built environment and biodiversity in high-density metropolitan areas: The case of Shanghai, China Jing Gan and Jurgen Breuste 33 Urban Greening as a Response to Societal Challenges. Towards Biophilic Megacities (Case Studies of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia) Diana Dushkova, Maria Ignatieva and Irina Melnichuk 34 Perceptions, Expectations and Preferences of Istanbul Residents Related to Nature and Nature Experience Meryem Hayir-Kanat and Jurgen Breuste Part VII - Multi-functional Urban Green Spaces Part Front Matter 35 Relationship Between Form and Structure of Green Spaces and Uses: the Case of Parks in Buenos Aires City, Argentina Ana Faggi and Jurgen Breuste 36 Visitors' Demands and the Present Supply of Recreational Services in Urban Parks in Shanghai (China) Jurgen H. Breuste, Simone Zippel and Marc Gimenez-Maranges 37 Urban Residents Preferences and Recreational Use of Urban Nature in Istanbul Meryem Hayir-Kanat and Jurgen Breuste 38 Planning Multifunctional Urban Green Infrastructure for Compact Cities in Europe Rieke Hansen and Stephan Pauleit 39 Changes in Urban Green Infrastructure in Tabriz, Iran Akbar Rahimi and Jurgen Breuste 40 Mobile Application-based Field Survey as a Possible Tool for Investigating Visitors' Perception and Preferences of the Vegetation in Urban Parks Peter Szilassi, Jurgen Breuste, Ronald A. Kolcsar and Gerhard Aigner 41 Searching for the Perfect Balance in the Multifunctionality of Urban Green Parks Mihai Razvan Nita, Ioan Cristian Ioja and Ana Maria Popa 42 Green Struggle - Environmental Conflicts Involving Urban Green Areas in Bucharest City Diana A. Onose, Ioan Cristian Ioja, Mihai Razvan Nita, Denisa L. Badiu and Alina C. Hossu 43 Strengthening Social Ties and Biodiversity Through an Urban Park: 18 de Septiembre Park, La Serena, Chile Sonia Reyes-Paecke, Alfonsina Puppo, Francisca Magnani and Valentina Salinas Index

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Details

• NCID: BD04748414
• ISBN:
  • 9783030730888
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 595 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT241
  • DC23 : 307.76
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : City planning -- Environmental aspects
  • LCSH : Sustainable urban development
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB18263849