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Planning Cities with Nature Theories, Strategies and Methods

This book explores novel theories, strategies and methods for re-naturing cities. It enables readers to learn from best practice and advances the current theoretical and empirical understanding in the field. The book also offers valuable insights into how planners and policymakers can apply this kno...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano (Editor), Mell, Ian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Cities and Nature
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban
Environment
Urban Ecology
Environmental Sciences
Sustainability
Urban Ecology (biology)
Urban Sociology
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Cities and Nature in History
  • Chapter 1. Understanding Landscape: Cultural Perceptions of Environment in the UK and China
  • Chapter 2. Green Wedges: the Resilience of a Planning Idea
  • Chapter 3. Demystified Territories: City vs. Countryside in Andrea Branzi’s Urban Models
  • Chapter 4. The Introduction of Nature in the Austrian Radicals Practice
  • Chapter 5. University Campuses: Experimentations on the Relations Between City and Nature in Brazil
  • Part 2. Planning Models, Theories and Methods for Renaturing Cities
  • Chapter 6. Towards a Spatial Planning Framework for the Re-Naturing of Cities
  • Chapter 7. Green Networks as a Key of Urban Planning with Thermal Comfort and Wellbeing
  • Chapter 8. Relationships Between Urban Green Areas and Health in China, UK and Brazil: Approaches and Experiences
  • Chapter 9. Planning a Green City: the Case of Helsinki, 2002-2018
  • Part 3. The Right to Green: Multiple Perspectives
  • Chapter 10. The Democracy of Green Infrastructure: Some Examples from Brazil and Europe
  • Chapter 11. Re-naturing the City for Health and Wellbeing: Green/Blue Urban Spaces as Sites of Renewal and Contestation
  • Chapter 12. Do Built Environment Assessment Systems Include High Quality Green Infrastructure?
  • Chapter 13. Establishing Payment for Environmental Services in Urban Areas
  • Chapter 14. Perspectives on Green: Recent Urbanisation Works and Measures in Brazil / India
  • Part 4. Systemic Planning for Resilient Green and Blue Cities
  • Chapter 15. Understanding and Applying Ecological Principles in Cities
  • Chapter 16. People-Policy-Options-Scale (PPOS) Framework: Reconceptualising Green Infrastructure Planning
  • Chapter 17. For More Sponge Cities
  • Chapter 18. Green Infrastructure in the Space of Flows: an Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing
  • Part 5. Conclusions
  • Chapter 19. Renaturing our Future Cities

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