Overview
- Provides an interdisciplinary overview of best practices and challenges
- Includes structured international case studies
- Provides an introduction on culture, preexisting nature conditions, existing urban surrounding, history, and design
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Concepts—Green City, Urban Nature, Benefits
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Urban Agriculture—More Than Food Production
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Urban Wildland—Forests, Water, and Wetlands
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Green Cities
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Challenges and Practice
Editors: Jürgen Breuste, Martina Artmann, Cristian Ioja, Salman Qureshi
Series Title: Cities and Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73089-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73088-8Published: 17 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73091-8Published: 17 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73089-5Published: 16 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 595
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 171 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Ecology