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, design and planning
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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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 andthe 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.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
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/10.1007/978-3-030-37716-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 532
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 158 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Urban Ecology, Landscape Ecology