Community Greenways

Author : Richard C. Smardon
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036503080

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Selected Papers from the 6th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning by Richard C. Smardon Pdf

This book contains five research articles and one review article derived from the 6th Fabos Conference on Greenway Planning held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in April of 2019. Specific topics covered include greenway planning and analysis for urban morphology, typology, climate change impact and recreational and health usage, in addition to historic greenway restoration. All the articles illustrate multidisciplinary approaches for analyzing urban greenway functions within expanding and contracting cities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lanarc Consultants Limited
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Greenbelts
ISBN : UCBK:C058827592

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Community Greenways by Anonim Pdf

Part of The Stewardship Series, this guide provides community leaders with tools to plan for and implement the establishment of community greenways, providing linkages between human development and natural systems.

Author : Paul Cawood Hellmund,Daniel Smith
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597265959

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Designing Greenways by Paul Cawood Hellmund,Daniel Smith Pdf

How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation design to illustrate how greenways function and add value to ecosystems and human communities alike. Encompassing everything from urban trail corridors to river floodplains to wilderness-like linkages, greenways preserve or improve the integrity of the landscape, not only by stemming the loss of natural features, but also by engendering new natural and social functions. From 19th-century parks and parkways to projects still on the drawing boards, Designing Greenways is a fascinating introduction to the possibilities-and pitfalls-involved in these ambitious projects. As towns and cities look to greenways as a new way of reconciling man and nature, designers and planners will look to Designing Greenways as an invaluable compendium of best practices.

Author : Charles A. Flink
Publisher : University of Florida Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1683401158

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The Greenway Imperative by Charles A. Flink Pdf

Trailblazing greenway projects from vision to reality In this eye-opening journey through some of America's most innovative landscape architecture projects, Charles Flink shows why we urgently need greenways. A leading authority in greenway planning, design, and development, Flink presents inspiring examples of communities that have come together to build permanent spaces for the life-sustaining power of nature. The Greenway Imperative reveals the stories behind a variety of multiuse natural corridors, taking readers to Grand Canyon National Park, suburban North Carolina, the banks of the Miami River, and many other settings. Flink, who was closely involved with each of the projects in this book during his 35-year career, introduces the people who jumpstarted these initiatives and the challenges they overcame in achieving them. Flink explains why open green spaces are increasingly critical today. "Much more than a path through the woods," he says, greenways conserve irreplaceable real estate for the environment, serve as essential green infrastructure, shape the way people travel within their communities, reduce impact from flooding and other natural disasters, and boost the economies of cities and towns. Greenways can and should dramatically reshape the landscape of America in the coming years, Flink argues. He provides valuable reflections and guidance on how we can create resilient communities and satisfy the human need for connection with the natural world.

Author : Yuan Li,Diogo Guedes Vidal,Abdullah Akpinar,Ding Li ,Hongxiao Liu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832550243

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Urban Green Spaces and Human Health by Yuan Li,Diogo Guedes Vidal,Abdullah Akpinar,Ding Li ,Hongxiao Liu Pdf

An important aspect of sustainable and regenerative urban development is to improve collective well-being standards. The United Nations endorsed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, which establishes seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and improve the lives and prospects of everyone and everywhere by 2030. Urban Green Spaces have a significant impact on the living condition and public health, which are closely associated with several SDGs including good health and well-being (SDG 3), clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), industry, innovation, and infrastructure (SDG 9), and sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11). Here, the concept of One Health gains high relevance by recognizing that interconnections among humans, animals, and environment is a key issue in public health and wellbeing, that stimulates interdisciplinary collaborations to develop a more holistic understanding and effective action against public health threats.

Author : Charles A. Flink
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781683401247

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The Greenway Imperative by Charles A. Flink Pdf

Trailblazing greenway projects from vision to reality In this eye-opening journey through some of America’s most innovative landscape architecture projects, Charles Flink shows why we urgently need greenways. A leading authority in greenway planning, design, and development, Flink presents inspiring examples of communities that have come together to build permanent spaces for the life-sustaining power of nature. The Greenway Imperative reveals the stories behind a variety of multiuse natural corridors, taking readers to Grand Canyon National Park, suburban North Carolina, the banks of the Miami River, and many other settings. Flink, who was closely involved with each of the projects in this book during his 35-year career, introduces the people who jumpstarted these initiatives and the challenges they overcame in achieving them. Flink explains why open green spaces are increasingly critical today. “Much more than a path through the woods,” he says, greenways conserve irreplaceable real estate for the environment, serve as essential green infrastructure, shape the way people travel within their communities, reduce impact from flooding and other natural disasters, and boost the economies of cities and towns. Greenways can and should dramatically reshape the landscape of America in the coming years, Flink argues. He provides valuable reflections and guidance on how we can create resilient communities and satisfy the human need for connection with the natural world.

Author : Uwe Altrock,Sonia Schoon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789400766747

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Maturing Megacities by Uwe Altrock,Sonia Schoon Pdf

This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here.

Author : Charles A. Flink,Robert M. Searns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Greenways
ISBN : MINN:31951D00910776X

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Greenways by Charles A. Flink,Robert M. Searns Pdf

Greenways--linear open spaces that preserve and restore nature in cities, suburbs, and rural areas--are proving to be the most innovative land protection concept of the decade. This book provides professionals and citizen activists with the tools they need for developing a greenway plan. An invaluable source of information for professional and volunteer planners, with important recommendations, guidelines, warnings, and support. Photos, figures, tables, index.

Author : Mark R. Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313073960

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Creating Sustainable Community Programs by Mark R. Daniels Pdf

Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government. Daniels and his contributors believe that the relationship between citizens and their governments can be changed by facilitating greater citizen collaboration with government, particularly through local sustainable programs. As the case studies show, often sustainable community programs are created through grassroots movements that are initiated and managed by citizens themselves, bringing them in contact with their local elected and appointed officials. Unlike traditional programs that are administered by local officials on behalf of their citizens, once sustainable community programs are created, citizens administer their own programs in collaboration with local officials. The case studies look at a variety of sustainable programs, primarily in the United States, that help to deal with issues such as recycling, transportation, microcredit, site redevelopment, pollution, health care, and hunger. Creating Sustainable Community Programs is the first book on sustainable programs that is intended for an audience of public administration scholars, researchers, and students as well as practitioners who are searching for ways to change the relationship between citizens and their governments.

Author : President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Communities Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Community development
ISBN : UIUC:30112004774060

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Sustainable Communities Task Force Report by President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Communities Task Force Pdf

Author : Michael Neuman,Wil Zonneveld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000366549

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The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design by Michael Neuman,Wil Zonneveld Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions—including city regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids. As accelerating urbanization and globalization combine with other forces such as the demand for increasing returns on investment capital, migration, and innovation, they yield cities that are expanding over ever-larger territories. Moreover, these polycentric city regions themselves are agglomerating with one another to create new territorial mega-regions. The processes that beget these novel regional forms produce numerous and significant effects, positive and negative, that call for new modes of design and management so that the urban places and the lives and well-being of their inhabitants and businesses thrive sustainably into the future. With international case studies from leading scholars and practitioners, this book is an important resource not just for students, researchers, and practitioners of urban planning, but also policy makers, developers, architects, engineers, and anyone interested in the broader issues of urbanism.

Author : Huntsville (Ala.). Planning Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Greenways
ISBN : UVA:X004963106

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Greenways Plan by Huntsville (Ala.). Planning Department Pdf

Author : Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803922041

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Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance by Fangzhu Zhang,Fulong Wu Pdf

This Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. With in-depth case studies on governing waste management, climate change, and energy transition, it will illuminate the relationship between the state, market, and society in environmental governance.

Author : Nik Heynen,James McCarthy,Scott Prudham,Paul Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135983314

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Neoliberal Environments by Nik Heynen,James McCarthy,Scott Prudham,Paul Robbins Pdf

Does neoliberalizing nature work and what work does it do? This volume provides answers to a series of urgent questions about the effects of neoliberal policies on environmental governance and quality.

Author : Mark A. Benedict,Edward T. McMahon,Mark A. The Conservation Fund
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597267649

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Green Infrastructure by Mark A. Benedict,Edward T. McMahon,Mark A. The Conservation Fund Pdf

With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people, and determine which use makes the most sense. In this wide-ranging primer, leading experts in the field provide a detailed how-to for planners, designers, landscape architects, and citizen activists