Télécharger le livre :  Making Green Cities

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-03-16
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision

This book analyses the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city modern movement car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture systems and the contribution of such a transformation to urban development. Modern movement garages built over the last 60 years...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-07-12
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Growing Food in Cities

This book examines social innovation strategies in the collaborative development of spaces for growing food in cities. It enables readers to gain valuable insights into an innovative social and spatial practice whilst advancing knowledge in an emerging area of research....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-05-11
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Re-Imagining Resilient Productive Landscapes

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture. Productive landscapes today have been posited as instruments for the positive transformation related to territorial fragility and abandonment, promoting...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-03-09
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Regenerating Cities

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-01-18
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Wastelands

Faced with the growing demand for nature in cities, informal greenspaces are gaining the interest of various stakeholders - residents, associations, public authorities - as well as scientists. This book provides a cross-sectorial overview of the advantages and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-10-18
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Ecology in the Global South

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-04-20
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecoregional Green Roofs

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada. While green roofs were intended to sustain local or regional vegetation, this volume describes how green roofs in their modern form are typically planted with a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-02-05
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure

The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy. It provides insights on the opportunities and challenges in the adoption of an ecosystem services (ES)-based approach for Spatial Planning...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-10-19
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces

This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-08-04
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Green Cities

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-02-22
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning

Spatial planning defines how men use one of the most important and scarce resources on Earth: land. Planners therefore play a key role in countering or deepening the current ecological crisis. To foster ecological transitions, planning scholars and practitioners need to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-16
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emergence of Biophilic Design

This book addresses the emergence of biophilic design, a form of design that looks at people’s intrinsic connection with nature. There is no denying that biophilic design is rapidly expanding globally as an effective response to pressing issues in urban areas and built...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-18
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Planning Cities with Nature

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-02-02
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  The Urban Garden City

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-24
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Towards Green Cities

The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes. Current...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-08-05
Collection : Cities and Nature
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Télécharger le livre :  Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics

As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-09
Collection : Cities and Nature
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