Making Green Cities: Concepts, Challenges and Practice

Author:   Jürgen Breuste ,  Martina Artmann ,  Cristian Ioja ,  Salman Qureshi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2nd ed. 2023
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Pages:   595
Publication Date:   17 March 2023
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Author:   Jürgen Breuste ,  Martina Artmann ,  Cristian Ioja ,  Salman Qureshi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2nd ed. 2023
Weight:   1.233kg
ISBN:  

9783030730888


ISBN 10:   3030730883
Pages:   595
Publication Date:   17 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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PrefaceAbout the Editors List of Contributors   Part I – The Green City: General Concept Part Front Matter 1              What Does “The Green City” Mean?        Jürgen Breuste 2              What Is Urban Nature?  Jürgen Breuste 3              What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure?    Jürgen Breuste 4              The Green City: General Concept              Jürgen Breuste   Part II – The Nature Concept – of What Urban Green Nature Consists of  Part Front Matter 5              The Four Urban Natures Approach                           Jürgen Breuste 6              Urban Woodlands - Remnants of Pristine Landscape        Jürgen Breuste 7              Public Urban Parks - Designed Urban Green Spaces           Jürgen Breuste 8              Urban Gardens – The Private Urban Green            Jürgen Breuste 9              Urban Waters – The Urban Blue Infrastructure   Jürgen Breuste 10           New Urban Wildernesses - Novel Urban Ecosystems        Jürgen Breuste   Part III – The Benefit Concept – How People Can Benefit from Urban Nature Part Front Matter 11           What We Expect from Urban Nature       Jürgen Breuste 12           Which Ecosystems Provide Which Ecosystem Services?   Jürgen Breuste 13           How Can Urban Ecosystem Services Be Assessed?             Jürgen Breuste 14           Biodiversity as an Urban Concept              Jürgen Breuste   Part IV – Urban Agriculture – More than Food Production  Part Front Matter 15           Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria                 Jürgen 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     Jürgen 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 Jürgen 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 Jürgen 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. Grădinaru, Marilena Onete, Jürgen Breuste and Ioan Cristian Iojă 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 Iojă, Jurgen Breuste, Gabriel-Ovidiu Vânău, Constantina-Alina Hossu, Mihai-Razvan Niță, 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 Iojă and Mihai Răzvan Niță 31           Urban Biodiversity Under Global Trends and Drivers – a Comparative Study of Urban Parks in Poznań (Poland) and Salzburg (Austria)    Janina Borysiak, Jürgen Breuste and Andrzej Mizgajski 32           Relationship between built environment and biodiversity in high-density metropolitan areas: The case of Shanghai, China                Jing Gan and Jürgen 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 Jürgen 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 Jürgen Breuste 36           Visitors’ Demands and the Present Supply of Recreational Services in Urban Parks in Shanghai (China)      Jürgen H. Breuste, Simone Zippel and Marc Giménez-Maranges 37           Urban Residents Preferences and Recreational Use of Urban Nature in Istanbul   Meryem Hayir-Kanat and Jürgen 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 Jürgen Breuste 40           Mobile Application-based Field Survey as a Possible Tool for Investigating Visitors’ Perception and Preferences of the Vegetation in Urban Parks               Péter Szilassi, Jürgen Breuste, Ronald A. Kolcsár and Gerhard Aigner 41           Searching for the Perfect Balance in the Multifunctionality of Urban Green Parks                Mihai Răzvan Niță, Ioan Cristian Iojă and Ana Maria Popa 42           Green Struggle – Environmental Conflicts Involving Urban Green Areas in Bucharest City Diana A. Onose, Ioan Cristian Iojă, Mihai Răzvan Niță, 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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