Biophilia beyond the Building: Applying the Tools of Urban Biodiversity Planning to Create Biophilic Cities

Panlasigui, Stephanie; Spotswood, Erica N.; Beller, Erin E.; Grossinger, Robin M.

doi:10.3390/su13052450

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“…We suggest that larger cities may be able to support high levels of diversity, yet may ultimately fail to protect their own biological resources due to population pressure overwhelming management resources. This failure to protect biodiversity in cities robs its populace of the health and wellness benefits of access to nature (see Panlasigui et al, 2021).…”

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Large Cities Fall Behind in “Neighborhood Biodiversity”

Cooper

Wood

Katz

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Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Urbanization is a major driver of global species loss. While cities with suitable habitats and conservation policies may support locally-high biodiversity levels, we suspected that the complexity of managing very large cities might counteract the advantage of large geographic area, and these cities may be less effective at biodiversity conservation. To answer this, we examined the relationship between the number of native indicator wildlife species (mean and maximum) in 112 cities across three metropolitan areas in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose), with metrics related to scale and environmental variables. We found that indicator species richness is positively related to area, income (the luxury effect), and pervious cover—including trees, shrubs, and grasses. Despite having a high maximum number of indicator species within their boundaries, the largest cities in our study, Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Diego, do a relatively poor job compared with smaller cities at distributing native biodiversity throughout neighborhoods, as measured by their mean species richness. Such variation in “neighborhood biodiversity” may exacerbate existing inequities in residents' access to nature. Using Los Angeles County as a case study, we compared biodiversity management within the County's 88 cities of various sizes and characteristics. We ranked General Plan wording in terms of references to biodiversity and conservation and created a management metric. We found that municipalities of various sizes that had high management scores generally had high indicator species richness. This suggests that robust policies may be able to overcome the challenges posed by city size and population.

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Large Cities Fall Behind in “Neighborhood Biodiversity”

Cooper

Wood

Katz

et al. 2021

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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“…The theoretical basis for this is the combination of the supercategories of "self-sufficiency" and "anthropo-axeology". In practice, there are several markers associated with this ideal, such as the aestheticisation of renewable energy systems (Ioannidis et al, 2019), the increasing importance of green spaces and natural elements (Panlasigui et al, 2021), and the use of forms that mimic nature, such as asymmetry, spontaneity, and curvature (Abdelsabour, 2019).…”

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The city of the future in the European Commission's documents: A comprehensive analysis

Frankiv

2023

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The study analyses a holistic vision of the city of the future, which is scattered in various documents and programmes of the European Union. The research relevance is predefined by the need to create a holistic vision that can act as an attractive representative of all current urban values in the mass culture and promote the qualities of environmental friendliness, inclusiveness, cohesion, sustainability, self-sufficiency, etc. The research aims to outline a holistic vision of the city of the future supported by EU documents necessary for the crystallisation of its historical identity. The research results were obtained by using the synthesis method. This study proposes to synthesise the following main conceptual groups of the discourse around the city of the future aimed at the ideals of optimal density, renewable self-sufficiency, techno-biosphere symbiosis, participatory cooperation, social cohesion, and multi-age valorisation. Each of these groups is first considered separately as a field of scientific attention, its main characteristics are given and evaluated in terms of usefulness for improving the urban environment. Next, an attempt is made to combine these groups employing a comprehensive analysis, the methodology of which is aimed at identifying common content nodes in the concepts and tools of each group. Subsequently, they are combined into a common conceptual system, an essential feature of which is the expansion of the interpretation of the features of each group as part of the features of other groups. This allowed to avoid the division of the current discourse around the image of the city of the future into different sectors and to work more effectively with the implementation and promotion of the values of the city image, which is supported by official documents of the European Commission, which is relevant for Ukraine, which seeks EU membership. In addition, the findings can be used in the education of students majoring in architecture and urban planning, as well as design

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“…Panlasigui et al (2021) identified three main ways in which urban biodiversity can be mapped to and support the goals of biophilic cities. These methods are community involvement, setting quantitative goals based on science, and setting priorities for action [6].…”

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Identifying and Measuring Biophilic Planning Indicators in Riverside Neighborhoods

Alaskary

Alrobaee

2022

Civ Eng J

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Biophilic planning is one of the important trends in achieving sustainability and nature conservation, especially in areas that contain natural elements. Since in the case of climate change and urban encroachment on natural habitats, taking care of nature and investing its components properly is a necessity, not a choice. As well as the agreement among many researchers about the social, economic and environmental benefits provided by biophilic planning, which is based mainly on the idea of connecting people with nature. This study aims to provide a guide to planners, urban designers, and decision-makers, including how to deal with residential neighborhoods that contain natural elements such as rivers by depending on a specific methodology based on previous literature and deriving effective indicators in this type of neighborhood. The results of the theoretical framework showed that there are eleven effective indicators, some of which are measured by descriptive methods and some by quantitative methods. These indicators have been applied in one of the neighborhoods of the Iraqi Kufa City overlooking the Euphrates River. The results showed that the study area lacks standards and indicators of biophilic planning. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-01-03 Full Text: PDF

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Biophilia beyond the Building: Applying the Tools of Urban Biodiversity Planning to Create Biophilic Cities

Cited by 21 publications

References 77 publications

Large Cities Fall Behind in “Neighborhood Biodiversity”

Large Cities Fall Behind in “Neighborhood Biodiversity”

The city of the future in the European Commission's documents: A comprehensive analysis

Identifying and Measuring Biophilic Planning Indicators in Riverside Neighborhoods

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