Urban Ecology of Shrinking Cities: An Unrecognized Opportunity?

Haase, Dagmar

doi:10.3167/nc.2008.030101

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“…This is linked with the importance and influence the project will exert by being located at the heart of Chungnam area, connecting Seoul, its metropolitan area, Daejeon (Fifth biggest city in Korea and the center of its transportation routes), Sejong (Korea's administrative Another main concern is connectivity related challenges, whether they refer to mobility or environmental and socio-cultural energy flows. Because urban growth has been placed at the center of major agendas around the globe, declining and shrinking spaces have not received much attention from policy makers or urban residents until recently [21]. This lack of attention has resulted in a lack of studies on these shrinking areas even though they have benefits, opportunities, and strengths for development.…”

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“…Another main concern is connectivity related challenges, whether they refer to mobility or environmental and socio-cultural energy flows. Because urban growth has been placed at the center of major agendas around the globe, declining and shrinking spaces have not received much attention from policy makers or urban residents until recently [21]. This lack of attention has resulted in a lack of studies on these shrinking areas even though they have benefits, opportunities, and strengths for development.…”

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Socio-Cultural Asset Integration for a Green Infrastructure Network Plan in Yesan County, Korea

Orantes

Kim

2017

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Green Infrastructure (GI) can be used as a framework for planning human settlements and guiding development away from natural areas that possess high ecological value and provide important Ecosystem Services for society's development. In this paper, we present a GI Plan for Yesan County (Yesan GI Plan), a small shrinking city in the Republic of Korea. Yesan possesses very rich, but still fairly unexplored natural and cultural resources. Therefore, Yesan's GI Plan was developed through a multifunctional approach based on the different ecological and socio-cultural characteristics of the region, allowing to connect the core elements that conform the vernacular landscape and get the most out of the Ecosystem Services provided by resources in the area. The plan was defined mainly in two stages: first, applying weights to the different ecological and socio/cultural characteristics; secondly, arranging them through a set of GIS spatial analysis tools using a patch-corridor-matrix model approach. The final outcome is a lean network of ecological value hubs, connected to a set of socio-cultural value assets through a network of water bodies, intrinsic forestry characteristics and wildlife mobility in the area. This was followed in order to connect, facilitate and improve mobility and energy flow in Yesan.

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Socio-Cultural Asset Integration for a Green Infrastructure Network Plan in Yesan County, Korea

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2017

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“…Soft re-uses are mostly mediated by plants, whether as part of the landscape of an open space, or for providing benefits of an urban 'green lung' or for a productive purpose such as growing biomass (Adelaja et al 2010;Haase, 2008;Mathey et al 2015;Sinett et al 2015). The growth of plants and hence the viability of soft re-uses is dependent on a suitable level of soil functionality (Cundy et al 2013).…”

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Optimising value from the soft re-use of brownfield sites

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Jones²,

Stephenson³

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Science of The Total Environment

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Soft re-use of brownfields describes intended temporary or final re-uses of brownfield sites which are not based on built constructions or infrastructure (‘hard' re-use). Examples of soft re-uses include the creation of public green space. These are essentially uses where the soil is not sealed. Often the case for soft re-use of brownfields has not been easy to demonstrate in strictly financial terms. The purpose of this paper is to describe a value based approach to identify and optimise services provided by the restoration of brownfields to soft re-uses, on a permanent or interim basis. A ‘Brownfield Opportunity Matrix' is suggested as means of identifying and discussing soft restoration opportunities. The use of ‘sustainability linkages' is suggested as a means of understanding the sustainability of the services under consideration and providing a structure for the overall valuation of restoration work, for example as part of design or option appraisal processes, or to support the solicitation of interest in a project

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“…Today, governments act generally in terms of moral persuasion, mostly oriented towards preserving the daily activity of the steel plant (centre-right governments upholding private ownership, centre-left governments upholding the power of worker unions), consequently showing little interest for long-term environmental, economic, social or health benefits. Should such plans be fully implemented, the positive effects on local environmental conditions would, in turn, improve the social and economic conditions and attractiveness of the area, thus combating shrinkage trends (Haase, 2008). In any case, as an effect of the public indignation about pollution, in July 2011, the national government with the Apulia Region and the ILVA reached an agreement whereby the company will continue to produce steel in Taranto, but with a significant reduction in the noxious fumes to below the regional threshold, accepting periodic controls by independent consultants.…”

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Kubo²,

Noya³

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Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)

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Urban Ecology of Shrinking Cities: An Unrecognized Opportunity?

Cited by 138 publications

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Socio-Cultural Asset Integration for a Green Infrastructure Network Plan in Yesan County, Korea

Socio-Cultural Asset Integration for a Green Infrastructure Network Plan in Yesan County, Korea

Optimising value from the soft re-use of brownfield sites

Demographic Change and Local Development

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