Bringing cities alive: the importance of urban green spaces for people and biodiversity

Sadler, Jon; Bates, Adam J.; Hale, James; James, Philip

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511778483.011

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“…6. Theodor Adorno raises a similar point: "Even as bourgeois consciousness naïvely condemns the ugliness of a torn-up industrial landscape, a relation is established that reveals a glimpse of the domination of nature, where nature shows humans its facade of having yet to be mastered" (Adorno [1970(Adorno [ ] 1997 Sadler et al (2010). 11.…”

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Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands

Gandy

2013

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands

Gandy

2013

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…They are model citizens, decorative, quiet, calm and courageous. (Joignot, 2012, p. 28) The dynamic process of global urbanisation, what Rayner and Lang (2012) call the 'urban transition', is resulting in the rapid growth of urban areas with more than one million people (Sadler et al, 2010). In these urban areas, the external environment comprises two distinct, juxtaposed spaces: 'grey space' and 'green space', which can be broken down further, as Figure 28.1 depicts.…”

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“…The health and well-being benefits of green space have been documented widely (Bell et al, 2008;Maas et al, 2009;Sadler et al, 2010). The green infrastructure is related to a healthy social ecosystem (Kuo, 2003), which is also important for urban biodiversity (Hostetler et al, 2011).…”

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A Case Study of Urban Trees, Public Health and Social Equity

Bentley¹

2017

Health of People, Places and Planet: Reflections Based on Tony McMichael’s Four Decades of Contribution to Epidemiological Unde

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Research demonstrates positive associations between urban greenness and human health; yet, the underlying causal mechanisms are less well understood. Moreover, urban greenness is distributed inequitably. This chapter describes a case study that explores some of the ways in which the quality and quantity of urban trees (as an aspect of urban greenness) relate to public health and social equity in a southern Australian context. The research used a theoretically informed, ecological public health model derived from four foundational principles of ecological public health -conviviality, equity, sustainability and global responsibility -to reveal a set of ecohealth-promoting mechanisms linking urban greenness to public health and social equity. Ecohealth in urban areas is created and lived by its human and non-human inhabitants within the convivial settings of their everyday life. While social determinants shape the health of people, the socio-natural processes of urban environmental metabolism shape urban development and the quality and distribution of trees as an urban forest. As urban trees can affect health and well-being positively, their uneven distribution is inequitable. Further case studies are needed to understand how urban trees relate to environmental and social determinants of health in different urban contexts.

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“…In contrast, in fragmented and highly urbanized areas, water is able to produce several positive amenities, such as preserving natural ecosystems [1], mitigating the impacts caused by human activity, such as air pollution and heat islands [2][3][4][5] and providing aesthetically pleasing open spaces and recreational sites [6][7][8]. However, in spite of these positive amenities, some researchers have specifically focused only on the aptitude of water to leverage the real estate market by influencing property values.…”

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Canals vs. Streams: To What Extent Do Water Quality and Proximity Affect Real Estate Values? A Hedonic Approach Analysis

Bonetti

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Abstract:The presence of and proximity to water influences human settlement decisions, because water has been able to characterize the environment and affect human health since prehistoric times. Many scholars have studied the effects of environmental amenities on the real estate market; however, only a few of them have explored the effects of water. This study stresses the role of water with a focus on the dichotomy between artificial and natural waterways (canals vs. streams), which involves managerial and qualitative differences. A hedonic approach, based on a large web scraped and geo-referenced dataset of 10,530 observations, is used to analyze the effect of water proximity and quality on residential housing prices in the province of Milan (Italy). Our main results show a significant but conflicting impact of water proximity on real estate value: reducing the canal distance, we observe an increase in the residential housing sale price, in urban more than peri-urban environments; in contrast, reducing the stream distance, our results show decreases in property value. Moreover, a significant moderating effect of water quality on distance from streams is identifiable.

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Bringing cities alive: the importance of urban green spaces for people and biodiversity

Cited by 45 publications

References 137 publications

Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands

Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands

A Case Study of Urban Trees, Public Health and Social Equity

Canals vs. Streams: To What Extent Do Water Quality and Proximity Affect Real Estate Values? A Hedonic Approach Analysis

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