Promoting Partnership between Urban Design and Urban Ecology through Social-Ecological Resilience Building

Colding, Johan; Marcus, Lars; Barthel, Stephan

doi:10.5772/intechopen.96642

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“…While local city officials have responded favorably to the design components submitted by each design group, it has not yet been decided which elements will be included in the final UGS development. Urban planners must balance the range of competing demands, including housing demand, economic development, and long-term city planning, and recognize that optimizing green space for maximum health benefits is not always a priority [ 35 ].…”

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Designing Multifunctional Urban Green Spaces: An Inclusive Public Health Framework

Lafrenz

2022

IJERPH

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Evidence of the wide range of health benefits associated with the use of urban green space (UGS) continues to grow. Despite this evidence, many UGS designs do not adopt a community-inclusive approach that utilizes evidence-based public health strategies to maximize potential health benefits. This research focused on testing a multidisciplinary, community-involved public health framework to drive the UGS design process. The aim of this study was to use community feedback and evidence-based public health practices to promote physical health, psychological wellbeing, and social cohesion by creating a multifunctional UGS that enhances nature therapy, natural play, and sports and recreation. Community health assessment data (236 survey responses), community forum and survey feedback (157 survey responses), local urban green space inventory assessment, and environmental assessment and impact data were analyzed to develop a design plan that maximize the greatest potential health benefits for the greatest proportion of the population. Community health data indicated a strong relationship between the availability of places to be physically active in the community and higher ratings of mental (aOR = 1.80) and physical (aOR = 1.49) health. The creation and utilization of the proposed community-inclusive and public health-focused framework resulted in a UGS design that prioritized the needs of the community and provided evidence-informed strategies to improve the health of local residents. This paper provides unique insight into the application of a framework that promotes a more health-focused and functional approach to UGS design.

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Designing Multifunctional Urban Green Spaces: An Inclusive Public Health Framework

Lafrenz

2022

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“…Applying a simple model like the InVEST model as used herein, also offers the possibility to assess other ecosystem services and to analyze trade-offs between them [44]. Suffice it to say, the InVEST model in this way embraces a pragmatic approach to urban planning and design, adopting the notion of "what work works" [61] (p. 125).…”

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Climate Proofing Cities by Navigating Nature-Based Solutions in a Multi-Scale, Social–Ecological Urban Planning Context: A Case Study of Flood Protection in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden

Egegård,

Lindborg,

Gren

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Due to unsustainable land management and climate change, floods have become more frequent and severe over the past few decades and the problem is exacerbated in urban environments. In the context of climate-proofing cities, the importance of nature-based solutions (NBSs), obtaining relevant outcomes in the form of ecosystem services, has been highlighted. Although the role of ecosystem services in building resilience against negative climate change effects is widely recognized and there is an identified need to better integrate ecosystem services into urban planning and design, this has proven difficult to operationalize. A critical limitation is that modeling is a time-consuming and costly exercise. The purpose is to roughly estimate the ecosystem service of water run-off mitigation through simplified, cost-effective, and user-friendly modelling at three nested biophysical scales, under four climate change scenarios. Using the Swedish city of Gothenburg as an example, we propose an approach for navigating NBS-oriented flooding adaptation strategies, by quantifying the ecosystem service of water run-off mitigation at three nested biophysical scales, under four climate change scenarios, hence, proposing an approach for how to navigate nature-based solutions in a multi-scale, social–ecological urban planning context against present and future flooding events. Our findings validate the effectiveness of employing an ecosystem service approach to better comprehend the significant climate change issue of flooding through user-friendly and cost-efficient modeling.

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Promoting Partnership between Urban Design and Urban Ecology through Social-Ecological Resilience Building

Cited by 2 publications

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Designing Multifunctional Urban Green Spaces: An Inclusive Public Health Framework

Designing Multifunctional Urban Green Spaces: An Inclusive Public Health Framework

Climate Proofing Cities by Navigating Nature-Based Solutions in a Multi-Scale, Social–Ecological Urban Planning Context: A Case Study of Flood Protection in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden

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