Naturally Challenged Contested Perceptions And Practices In Urban Green Spaces

Author : Nicola Dempsey,Julian Dobson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030444808

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Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces by Nicola Dempsey,Julian Dobson Pdf

This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban settings (e.g. parks, woodland, nature reserves, riverbanks) are under-researched in academia and under-resourced in practice. Our growing knowledge of the benefits of natural urban spaces for wellbeing contrasts with asset management approaches in practice that view public green spaces as liabilities. Why is there a mismatch between what we know about urban green space and what we do in practice? What makes some UGS more ‘successful’ than others? And who decides on this measure of ‘success’ and how is this constituted? This book sets out to answer these and related questions by exploring a range of approaches to designing, planning and managing different natural landscapes in urban settings.

Author : Alan Wiig,Kevin Ward,Theresa Enright,Mike Hodson,Hamil Pearsall,Jonathan Silver
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781529225624

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Infrastructuring Urban Futures by Alan Wiig,Kevin Ward,Theresa Enright,Mike Hodson,Hamil Pearsall,Jonathan Silver Pdf

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and wider processes of urbanization. Considering the climate emergency, economic transformation, public health crises and racialized inequality, the book argues that paying attention to infrastructures' past, present and future allows us to understand and respond to the current urban condition.

Author : van Melik, Rianne,Filion, Pierre,Brian Doucet
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529219005

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Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility by van Melik, Rianne,Filion, Pierre,Brian Doucet Pdf

This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday practices of urban citizens. The contributors discuss how the virus made urban inequalities clearer, and redefined public spaces in the “new normal”.

Author : Amartya Deb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000936650

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Wild Spaces in Urban Development by Amartya Deb Pdf

This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space. Metropolitan cities are facing stark inequalities of green space distribution, hindering goals of sustainable development. But outside of human control, spontaneous nature grows in spaces that are neglected or are unaccounted for. Drawing on existing literature and primary research in a range of towns and cities, including Quito in Ecuador, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India, and Whitby in the United Kingdom, the book delves into the morphology, meanings, and values of those small-scale assemblages of wild growth which are typically overlooked. Discussing instead how such settings can be integrated into everyday urban life, the book offers a fresh perspective on issues around green infrastructure, heritage conservation, and environmental education, enabling cities worldwide to become more nature-positive. A unique examination of an under-researched topic, this book will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals across landscape architecture, urban planning, urban ecology, and all related fields.

Author : Jan Woudstra,Camilla Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000556490

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The Politics of Street Trees by Jan Woudstra,Camilla Allen Pdf

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict. The work first provides different historical perspectives on street trees and politics, celebrating diversity in different cultures. A second section discusses street tree values, policy and management, addressing more contemporary issues of their significance and contribution to our environment, both physically and philosophically. It explores cultural idiosyncrasies and those from the point of view of political economy, particularly challenging the neo-liberal perspectives that continue to dominate political narratives. The final section provides case studies of community engagement, civil action and governance. International case studies bring together contrasting approaches in areas with diverging political directions or intentions, the constraints of laws and the importance of people power. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach this book produces an information base for academics, practitioners, politicians and activists alike, thus contributing to a fairer political debate that helps to promote more democratic environments that are sustainable, equitable, comfortable and healthier.

Author : Vincenzo Costanzo,Gianpiero Evola,Luigi Marletta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000431520

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Urban Heat Stress and Mitigation Solutions by Vincenzo Costanzo,Gianpiero Evola,Luigi Marletta Pdf

This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in urban areas. The book covers the latest approaches to energy and outdoor comfort measurement and modelling on an urban scale, and describes possible measures and strategies to mitigate the effects of the mutual interaction between urban settlements and local microclimate. Despite its relevance, only limited literature is currently devoted to appraising—from an engineering perspective—the intertwining relationships between urban geometry and fabrics, energy fluxes between buildings and their surroundings, outdoor microclimate conditions and building energy demands in urban areas. This book fills this gap by first discussing the physical processes that govern heat and mass transfer at an urban scale, while emphasizing the role played by different spatial arrangements, manmade materials and green infrastructures on the outdoor microclimate. The first chapters also address the implications of these factors on the outdoor comfort conditions experienced by pedestrians, and on the buildings’ energy demand for space heating and cooling. Then, based upon cutting-edge experimental activities and simulation work, this book demonstrates current and forthcoming adaptation and mitigation strategies to improve the urban microclimate and its impact on the built environment, such as cool materials, thermochromic and retroreflective finishing materials, and green infrastructures applied either at a building scale or at the urban scale. The effect of these solutions is demonstrated for different cities worldwide under a range of climate conditions. Finally, the book opens a wider perspective by introducing the basic elements that allow fuel poverty, raw materials consumption, and the principles of circular economy in the definition of a resilient urban settlement.

Author : Camila Gomes Sant'Anna,Ian Mell,Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031183324

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Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities by Camila Gomes Sant'Anna,Ian Mell,Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk Pdf

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city’s climate change adaptations demands. In this context, it proposes a process that engage the values linked to the art and culture of the place, capable of generating adoption by the population and promoting the right to landscape. Since the nineteenth century, many theoretical and practical experiences have integrated urban and environmental issues, revising the understanding of nature as an object and thinking of nature and culture in conjunction. However, consensus of the methodological strategies needed to guide the development of multi-scale landscape planning and design capable of responding to the climate emergency, heritage, water, biodiversity and social inclusion, among other issues has not been achieved. Green infrastructure has emerged as a tool to link considerations of the planning and design process to examine the impact urban nature can have at a global and a local scale. The book gathers together authors from different parts of the world and disciplines to showcase conceptual thinking, best practices and methodological strategies relating to landscape planning and design with green infrastructure adapted to climate change. The topic of this book is particularly relevant to scholars, practitioners and developers around the world who have an interest in planning and environmental management, landscape architecture, and socio-cultural understandings of landscape.

Author : Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza,Vicente Guallart,Fabio Salbitano,Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo,Stefano Boeri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031294662

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Transforming Biocities by Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza,Vicente Guallart,Fabio Salbitano,Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo,Stefano Boeri Pdf

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity. Following this principle, the authors propose multiple approaches for sustainable city growth. The discussed concepts are not only relevant for newly constructed cities, but offer transformative perspectives for existing settlements as well. Placing nature at the forefront of city planning is not an entirely new concept, so the authors build on established ideas like the garden city, green city, eco-city, or smart city. All chapters aim to highlight aspects to develop a city that is a resilient nature-based socio-ecological system. Many of these concepts were formed in an effort to copy the best traits of a forest ecosystem: a home for many different species that build complex communities. Much like many of our forests, urban areas are managed by humans for multifunctional purposes, using living and abiotic components. This viewpoint helps to understand the potential and limitations of sustainable growth. With these chapters, the authors want to inspire planners, ecologists, urban foresters and decision makers of the future.

Author : Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000811414

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research by Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery Pdf

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit. This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet, its environments and its populations through their research, analysis and speculative practice. The book has assembled current writings on recent research structured around five major themes: governance, power and partnership; infrastructure, systems and performance; environment, resilience and climate change; people, place and design; and culture, heritage and identity. As a collection, the chapters demonstrate the diversity of themes and topics that are expanding the scholarly body of knowledge for the discipline and its relevance to the practice of landscape architecture. The contributors to this book are academic researchers and practitioners from the discipline of landscape architecture. The chapters draw on their research, teaching and experience as well as analysis of project examples. Fifty-two contributors from the United Stsates, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Malaysia, Spain, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada discuss a diverse range of contemporary themes in urban landscape architecture. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate the breadth of experience, shared concerns and distinct issues that challenge urban landscape architecture and cities in the 21st century.

Author : Tomas Bergström,Jochen Franzke,Sabine Kuhlmann,Ellen Wayenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030560591

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The Future of Local Self-Government by Tomas Bergström,Jochen Franzke,Sabine Kuhlmann,Ellen Wayenberg Pdf

This book presents new research results on the challenges of local politics in different European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Switzerland, together with theoretical considerations on the further development and strengthening of local self-government. It focuses on analyses of the most recent developments in local democracy and administration.

Author : Nicola Dempsey,Harry Smith,Mel Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135005238

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Place-Keeping by Nicola Dempsey,Harry Smith,Mel Burton Pdf

Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping – that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces – from around Europe and the rest of the world. There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and urban design on the creation of high-quality public spaces, or place-making. This is supported by a growing body of research which shows how high-quality public spaces are economically and socially beneficial for local communities and contribute positively to residents’ quality of life and wellbeing. However, while large amounts of capital are spent on the creation of open spaces, little thought is given to, and insufficient resources made available for, the long-term maintenance and management of public spaces, or place-keeping. Without place-keeping, public spaces can fall into a downward spiral of disrepair where anti-social behaviour can emerge and residents may feel unsafe and choose to use other spaces. The economic and social costs of restoring such spaces can therefore be considerable where place-keeping does not occur. Place-Keeping also provides an accessible presentation of the outputs of a major European Union-funded project MP4: Making Places Profitable, Public and Private Open Spaces which further extends the knowledge and debate on long-term management of public and private spaces. It will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and practitioners seeking critical but practical guidance on the long-term management of public and private spaces in a range of contexts.

Author : Viniece Jennings,Matthew H. E. M. Browning,Alessandro Rigolon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030104696

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Urban Green Spaces by Viniece Jennings,Matthew H. E. M. Browning,Alessandro Rigolon Pdf

This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health. In this regard, the book highlights how ecosystem services provided by green spaces affect multiple aspects of human health and well-being, offering a strategic way to conceptualize the topic. For centuries, scholars have observed the range of health benefits associated with exposure to nature. As people continue to move to urban areas, it is essential to include green spaces in cities to ensure sustained human health and well-being. Such insights can not only advance the science but also spark interdisciplinary research and help researchers creatively translate their findings into benefits for the public. The book explores this topic in the context of ‘big picture’ frameworks that enhance communication between the environmental, public health, and social sciences.

Author : Viniece Jennings,Matthew H. E. M. Browning,Alessandro Rigolon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 3030104702

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Urban Green Spaces by Viniece Jennings,Matthew H. E. M. Browning,Alessandro Rigolon Pdf

This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health. In this regard, the book highlights how ecosystem services provided by green spaces affect multiple aspects of human health and well-being, offering a strategic way to conceptualize the topic. For centuries, scholars have observed the range of health benefits associated with exposure to nature. As people continue to move to urban areas, it is essential to include green spaces in cities to ensure sustained human health and well-being. Such insights can not only advance the science but also spark interdisciplinary research and help researchers creatively translate their findings into benefits for the public. The book explores this topic in the context of 'big picture' frameworks that enhance communication between the environmental, public health, and social sciences.

Author : Winifred Curran,Trina Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351859301

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Just Green Enough by Winifred Curran,Trina Hamilton Pdf

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "green urbanism," both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked. One result is what has been called environmental gentrification, a process in which environmental improvements lead to increased property values and the displacement of long-term residents. The specter of environmental gentrification is now at the forefront of urban debates about how to accomplish environmental improvements without massive displacement. In this context, the editors of this volume identified a strategy called "just green enough" based on field work in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that uncouples environmental cleanup from high-end residential and commercial development. A "just green enough" strategy focuses explicitly on social justice and environmental goals as defined by local communities, those people who have been most negatively affected by environmental disamenities, with the goal of keeping them in place to enjoy any environmental improvements. It is not about short-changing communities, but about challenging the veneer of green that accompanies many projects with questionable ecological and social justice impacts, and looking for alternative, sometimes surprising, forms of greening such as creating green spaces and ecological regeneration within protected industrial zones. Just Green Enough is a theoretically rigorous, practical, global, and accessible volume exploring, through varied case studies, the complexities of environmental improvement in an era of gentrification as global urban policy. It is ideal for use as a textbook at both undergraduate and graduate levels in urban planning, urban studies, urban geography, and sustainability programs.

Author : Ian C. Laurie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608145378

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Nature in Cities by Ian C. Laurie Pdf