Urban Greening—Macro-Scale Landscaping

Groening, Gert; Hennecke, Stefanie

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8581-5_4

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“…Thirdly, the stock of potentially developable land has been shrinking in the eastern and central regions due to rapid economic growth and urban expansion in the last decade (Yuan, Wei, & Chen, 2014). Thus, the limited land availability (after extensive outward sprawl and internal intensification) has intensified the competition between various land uses (Groening & Hennecke, 2014), as observed in Shanghai and Guangzhou (Gong, Chen, Liu, & Wang, 2014). Fourthly, the protection of natural environment and enhancement of natural amenities has not attracted sufficient attention in the process of urban expansion.…”

Section: Regional Variations Between Eastern-coastal Central and Wementioning

confidence: 98%

Producing nature for public: Land-based urbanization and provision of public green spaces in China

Chen

2015

Applied Geography

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Section: Regional Variations Between Eastern-coastal Central and Wementioning

confidence: 98%

Producing nature for public: Land-based urbanization and provision of public green spaces in China

Chen

2015

Applied Geography

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“…In the last decade, there was an explosion of interest of gardening. The role and potential of gardening within the city is presently seen as integral to making local and healthy foods more accessible, mitigating the negative impacts of urbanization, lowering carbon emissions, and encouraging emerging forms in the community and sociality in the urban space; all of these benefits resonate with sustainability goals [24].…”

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Social and Ecological High Influential Factors in Community Gardens Innovation: An Empirical Survey in Italy

2020

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In 2015, The United Nations adopted an agenda for sustainable development in order to obtain “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and for the world now and in the future (United Nations). The United Nations has defined 17 main goals, such as ending poverty, improving health, preserving the ocean, and tackling the climate change, in order to achieve worldwide sustainable development. Sustainable development is a crucial worldwide topic that encompasses three dimensions: economic, social and environmental. Nowadays, social ecological innovation has envisaged a new prominent business model focusing on social and environmental goals to achieve sustainable development. The intent of this paper is to propose the community garden framework as a social and ecological innovation tool in order to boost sustainable development in urban areas as well as rural areas. For this purpose, an empirical analysis based on a structured interview was conducted in the area of Naples on a sample of 150 gardeners. The results of the interviews have been aggregated by using a variance and correlation analysis in order to explore to what extent the social and environmental dimensions are linked to the community gardens and to identify a pattern between community gardens and social ecological innovation. Two attributes of community gardens, that is, urbanization effects mitigation and wellness and community, were identified as having the ability to influence other community garden attributes. Thus, the paper suggests using these highly influential factors to define a social and ecological innovation strategy based on a community gardens framework.

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Transition Process of Landscape Through Changing Tropical Gardens from Productive Function into Recreational Purpose

Tafahomi

2021

Türkiye Peyzaj Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The urban gardens are under transformation that results in the modification of function, activity, hardscape, softscape of gardens. The aim of this paper is to analyse the transitional process of the gardens from the productive function to recreational purposes in Kigali city, Rwanda. The methodology of the research was designed qualitative methods such as interview, observation, photography, sketching, mapping, and graphical analysis. The findings identified that the transition process has affected both the configuration and composition of gardens. The configuration refers to the hardscape including buildings, walls, paving, and accessibility, and composition includes the softscape such as trees, shrubs, flowers, pots, and furniture. Additionally, this transition resulted in changing functions and activities in the gardens from productive to leisure and from private to semi-private and semi-public. This transition could be addressed to the new generation of social middle classes in the city who are raising new needs, desires, and expectations from the urban area to increase social interaction through semi-public activities.

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Urban Greening—Macro-Scale Landscaping

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Producing nature for public: Land-based urbanization and provision of public green spaces in China

Producing nature for public: Land-based urbanization and provision of public green spaces in China

Social and Ecological High Influential Factors in Community Gardens Innovation: An Empirical Survey in Italy

Transition Process of Landscape Through Changing Tropical Gardens from Productive Function into Recreational Purpose

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