Overview: Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities

Shen, Zhenjiang; Fitriaty, Puteri

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70025-0_1

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“…While the GI policy and planning guide development strategies at larger spatial scales (Mell, 2011), the outcomes of the study can be used in an informed decision-making process for GI planning at neighbourhood scale. With the concepts of green and smart cities merging to shape quality urban environments, the cost of GI development can be reduced by launching projects at smaller scales (Shen & Fitriaty, 2018). Integrating smart and green technologies can augment the efficiency of water and energy consumption for GI maintenance.…”

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Priority Areas for Developing Green Infrastructure in Semi-arid Cities: A Case Study of Tehran

Jamali

Khaledi

Razavian

2021

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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Urban green infrastructure (GI) approach supports building resilience, mitigating greenhouse gases emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change. However, the development and maintenance of GI in semi-arid cities can be hindered by limitations such as available water resources. In this article, we study priority areas for GI development schemes at the neighbourhood scale through a seasonal vulnerability framework with the case study of two urban districts in the semi-arid city of Tehran, Iran. Heat mitigation and stormwater runoff control are considered as the main objectives of GI development. The results show that priority areas have high levels of land surface temperature, impervious surfaces and population density, with a low proportion of vegetation land cover. The necessary GI services vary in different local climate zones (LCZ) during the year. Although heat mitigation is required in both compact and open LCZs, the runoff control service of GI is also needed for neighbourhoods with compact midrise settings. To promote sustainability at the neighbourhood scale, the findings of the study can be used for initiating nature-based solutions and GI development projects.

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Priority Areas for Developing Green Infrastructure in Semi-arid Cities: A Case Study of Tehran

Jamali

Khaledi

Razavian

2021

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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“…Some researchers have conducted comparative studies of green city adoption, particularly between cities in Asia and other developing countries and cities in the Global North. Shen and Fitriaty (2018), for instance, reveal that green cities in Asia mainly focus on developing green buildings, green technology, and green open spaces without necessarily linking these initiatives to the existing urban sprawl issue. Meanwhile, the combination of green and smart cities has been partly developed in cities in Asian developed countries such as China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.…”

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“…In this study, our primary attention is green city experimentation in the Global South. Shen and Fitriaty (2018) and Lechner et al (2020), in particular, have proposed three underlying factors that may strongly affect the trajectory of green city in the Global South, i.e., urbanization, biophysics, and governance. The urbanization factor highlights the issue of urban sprawl and high population density, whereas the biophysics factor focuses on the issue of climate change and its relations with the local climate condition.…”

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Revisiting the Green City Concept in the Tropical and Global South Cities Context: The Case of Indonesia

Zain

Pribadi

Indraprahasta

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Urban areas play a key role in reaching global sustainability as they produce a high amount of waste and emissions, consume a lot of resources, and perform as the prime mover of the global economy. Unsustainable urbanization will generate multidimensional impacts on the earth’s socio-ecological system that is nearly impossible to be managed. As a preemptive action, urban sustainability has been considered as one of the most important targets in the Sustainable Development Goals. Within this context, the green city has emerged as a widely adopted concept around the globe. In the Global North, the concept of a green city has been incrementally developed as efforts to mainstream green infrastructure and nature-based solutions approaches in supporting ecosystem services. Quite the contrary, in the Global South cities, due to their rapid and vast urbanization process, the green city has been fragmentally adopted. Previous studies have proposed three factors, i.e., urbanization, biophysics, and governance, underlying the different approaches of green city development between cities in the Global North and South. Still, more studies are needed to explicate these factors and how these will in turn shape a particular green city trajectory in Global South cities. This study aims to respond to these questions based on green city experimentation in Indonesia. An exploratory study was done based on a literature review and participant observation. The results exhibit that the green city program in Indonesia largely focused on the development of green open spaces which has ultimately failed to improve the urban environment and sustainability. Incorporating local socio-ecological aspects coupled with integrated multi-level and multi-actors’ governance is recommended to increase the green city performances.

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“…The large influence of UGS in urban ecosystems is based on the amount of land they occupy within cities (Xu et al, 2016). Parklands in New York City cover 21% of the area, containing 85% of the flora diversity (Schewenius et al, 2014), while in Chandirgah they extend over a third of the city's surface (Chaudhry and Tewari, 2010;Shen and Fitriaty, 2018). This land occupies a key role in ecological processes such as biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem services (Aronson et al, 2017;Sirakaya et al, 2018).…”

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Evaluating Socio-Ecological Interactions for the Management of Protected Urban Green Spaces

Zambrano

Cano‐Santana

Wegier

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Overview: Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Priority Areas for Developing Green Infrastructure in Semi-arid Cities: A Case Study of Tehran

Priority Areas for Developing Green Infrastructure in Semi-arid Cities: A Case Study of Tehran

Revisiting the Green City Concept in the Tropical and Global South Cities Context: The Case of Indonesia

Evaluating Socio-Ecological Interactions for the Management of Protected Urban Green Spaces

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