Making Green Cities
Concepts, Challenges and Practice
Editors: Breuste, J.H., Artmann, M., Ioja, C., Qureshi, S. (Eds.)
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- Includes structured international case studies
- Provides an introduction on culture, preexisting nature conditions, existing urban surrounding, history, design and planning
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- About this book
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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, Australia, America and Asia. 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.
- About the authors
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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Breuste is Head of the Research Group Urban and Landscape Ecology at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is the President of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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The Green City: General Concept
Pages 1-15
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The Urban Nature Concept—of What Urban Green Consists of
Pages 17-48
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The Benefit Concept—How People Can Benefit from Urban Nature
Pages 49-73
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Urban Agriculture—More Than Food Production
Pages 75-176
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Urban Wildland—Forests, Waters and Wetlands
Pages 177-287
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Making Green Cities
- Book Subtitle
- Concepts, Challenges and Practice
- Editors
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- Jürgen Heinz Breuste
- Martina Artmann
- Cristian Ioja
- Salman Qureshi
- Series Title
- Cities and Nature
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-37716-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-37716-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-37715-1
- Series ISSN
- 2520-8306
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 532
- Number of Illustrations
- 72 b/w illustrations, 158 illustrations in colour
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