Implementing urban greening aid projects – The case of St. Petersburg, Russia

Nilsson, Kjell; Åkerlund, Ulrika; Konijnendijk, Cecil C.; Алексеев, А. С.; Caspersen, Ole Hjorth; Guldager, Susanne; Kuznetsov, Evgeniy E.; Mezenko, Alexander; Селиховкин, А. В.

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2007.01.004

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“…They recommend that this reconsideration may well regard multi-disciplinary approaches, sustainability plans, environments that are quiet, clean and effective, compact communities and green transport, ecosystem services, urban greening, gardens and green roofs, city farms and urban agriculture, renewable energy projects, sense of place and lifestyle. In this respect, Nilsson et al [57] explain that urban greening embraces the planning and management of urban vegetation on streets, parks, playgrounds, local gardens and the urban periphery, also aiming to add value to the local community. Quite by contrast, Palmer and Simon [58], argues that the world is not able to "merely afford urban sustainability utopianism".…”

Section: Green Urbanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Viviers

Cornelius

Cilliers

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Paul Davidoff charged planners in 1965, as a profession making urban life more beautiful, exciting, creative and more just, as having little to say. The task thereupon was to train a generation of planners to go well beyond the designers of the sixties in their ability to prescribe future urban life. Nijkamp, in 1980, affirms the utopians' claim that the future is open and flexible, and that every development in the community, could imply a surprising step towards something better. A half century since Davidoff's indications, planners encounter ever expanding planning approaches, "towards something better", ranging from compact cities, transit oriented developments, new urbanism, new ruralism, shared cities, to smart growth and, of late, green urbanism and eco-cities; all in response to multifunctionality. Although the concept of multifunctionality has gained increasing attention the last decade, there is much frustration amongst planners regarding a proper set of broadly based definitions and clear statements concerning its scientific points of departure. This research argues that a combination of planning approaches are a more suitable response in attaining multifunctional land use; especially as megatrends underscore the need for moving away from seeking a predictable single future or outcome. The uniqueness of the Southern African landscape, inherently being rural, necessitated a rural accentuation on multifunctionality. Applying theory-based sampling as part of qualitative inquiry into the recently planned rural village of Verkykerskop, acclaimed by the Charter for New Urbanism in 2012, it is questioned whether the reciprocal employment of planning approaches induced multifunctional rural land use. Offering a design philosophy, whereby "farming, playing and living" is attained through the combined appliance of new urbanism, rural urbanism and green urbanism in planning the rural village, conclusions are drawn relating to the conduciveness of these approaches in achieving multifunctional rural land use. Keywords: multifunctionality, multifunctional land use, multifunctional rural land use, new urbanism, new ruralism and green urbanism.

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Section: Green Urbanismmentioning

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Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Viviers

Cornelius

Cilliers

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…One of the reasons may be the lack of urban planners and landscape architects within the municipal organization [31]. The other reason is the lack of society's interest in the problem of sustainable urban development, especially in its environmental aspect [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The other reason is the lack of society's interest in the problem of sustainable urban development, especially in its environmental aspect [3]. For instance, in 2000 the Danish Ministry of the Environment started a bilateral environmental aid project in St. Petersburg [31]. The aim of the project was "to 'sow the seeds' for a more strategic approach to planning and management of green spaces in St. Petersburg" by developing a GISbased information system and rising public involvement in the improvement of green areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

Greening as an Element of Sustainable Urban Development: Valuation of Economic Feasibility, Policyassessment and Practical Examples

Алексеева

Menshikh²,

Kudryavtseva

2016

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Agron. životnovod.

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The article reveals the importance of urban greening as a part of sustainable urban development concept. We examinethe ecological, social, cultural, spatial benefits of urban greening promotionas well as the possible constrains to urban space vegetating. It is shown that the assessment of tree benefits can be important for implementation of sustainable urban development. In turn,appropriate urban greening assessment is also important. The article provides existing urban greening assessment methods and their implementation in real-life practices.

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“…The convention expresses awareness-raising as one of three specific measures, expecting signatories to the convention to "increase awareness among the civil society, private organisations, and public authorities of the value of landscapes, their role and changes to Existing literature tends to see awareness-raising as a top down approach for promoting the credibility of entities to a community in order to influence both attitudes and behaviours, giving voice to the author of information (UNECE 1998;Carr 2004;Sayers 2006;Burningham, Fielding et al 2008). Literature addressing awareness-raising tends not to probe the theoretical or conceptual understanding of the activity, instead focusing on normative (Johnson, Penning-Rowsell et al 2007;Burningham, Fielding et al 2008) or procedural issues (Read 1999;Carr 2004;Primmer and Kyllönen 2006) and often expressing raising public awareness as a positive outcome when participation fails (Primmer and Kyllönen 2006;Nilsson, Åkerlund et al 2007). …”

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Awareness-raising of landscape in practice. An analysis of Landscape Character Assessments in England

Butler

Åkerskog

2014

Land Use Policy

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Access to the published version may require journal subscription. Published with permission from: Elsevier. Awareness-raising of landscape in practice. An analysis of Landscape Character Assessments in England AbstractAwareness-raising is one of the measures which signatories to the European Landscape Convention are expected to realise, yet it is unclear what awareness-raising entails when related to an ambiguous subject such as landscape. Our study builds a conceptual understanding of awareness-raising of landscape, recognising that it cannot be a purely top-down process but needs to be seen as a "multi-directional transfer of knowledge" or "co-creation of meaning". We have used this conceptual understanding as a lens for analysing practices which in some form help raise awareness of landscape. Document studies of Landscape Character Assessments undertaken in England since 2007 and interviews with key actors involved in Landscape Character Assessments were carried out in order to understand how awareness-raising is addressed. The findings suggest that while often overlooked or recognised as a top down endeavour landscape assessments have potential to develop cocreation of meaning.

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Implementing urban greening aid projects – The case of St. Petersburg, Russia

Cited by 34 publications

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Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Greening as an Element of Sustainable Urban Development: Valuation of Economic Feasibility, Policyassessment and Practical Examples

Awareness-raising of landscape in practice. An analysis of Landscape Character Assessments in England

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