Urban wastelands: On the frontline between air pollution sources and residential areas

Przybysz, Arkadiusz; Wińska-Krysiak, Marzena; Małecka-Przybysz, Monika; Stankiewicz‐Kosyl, M.; Skwara, M.; Kłos, A.; Kowalczyk, Sławomir; Jarocka, K.; Sikorski, Piotr

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137695

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“…A growing body of research shows a scientific consensus on the importance of parks and urban greenery for health and well-being [73][74][75][76][77]. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic underlined the importance of informal, semi-natural spaces in the city and their ecological services provisioning [78][79][80][81][82][83]. Informal green space (overgrown brownfields, 'wild' riverbanks, road reserves etc.)…”

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Green Infrastructure in the Time of Social Distancing: Urban Policy and the Tactical Pandemic Urbanism

Herman

Drozda

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic generated a number of changes in the functioning of urban areas all over the world and had a visible impact on the use of green infrastructure, including city parks. The study discusses and compares operation and use of two such parks located in Wellington, New Zealand and Warsaw, Poland by adopting "pandemic urban ethnography", an approach that includes autoethnography, interviews with users, non-participant observation, and analysis of social media content. As indicated by the findings of the study, the importance of less rigidly designed, multifunctional spaces that give their users freedom of "tactical" adjustments, significantly grows during times of lockdown and "social distancing". During such a crisis, the management and everyday use of urban parks are highly related to urban policies. The article provides insight into how those policies impact the functional values of green infrastructure confronting it with user-generated adaptations and the landscape design itself. The global health emergency showed how access to green areas becomes a crucial determinant on environmental justice while proving the significance of "tactical pandemic urbanism" as both a design and management method.

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Green Infrastructure in the Time of Social Distancing: Urban Policy and the Tactical Pandemic Urbanism

Herman

Drozda

2021

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“…When it comes to the degree of soil pollution at an individual locality, historical aspects, as well as the present situation of the study areas and sampling plots, are crucial. For example, Study Areas 15 and 16, which showed high pollutions with respect to some trace elements, are closely located to railway tracks and a cement plant [36].…”

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Carabid Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Response to Soil Properties of Urban Wastelands in Warsaw, Poland

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Urban wasteland is of special interest to city planners. However, to integrate such areas into city space management with consideration of nature conservation aspects, a sound assessment of their ecological potential is necessary. The aim of this paper was to analyze whether carabid beetle assemblages of the wastelands are affected by soil parameters, particularly trace element contamination. Therefore, we studied the carabid fauna in relation to selected soil parameters on 56 sampling plots situated in 24 wastelands located in the city of Warsaw (Poland). The results have confirmed our assumptions that the number of species, as well as the number of individual carabid beetles, are negatively affected by an increasing amount of pollutants in the soil. Particularly, the trace elements Pb, Cu, and Cd showed a significantly negative impact. The results are of value when it comes to the use of urban wastelands in the context of sustainable city development. Future use of urban wastelands will be faced with trade-offs between the use for public interests (e.g., housing space) and ecological interests. Phytoremediation and entomoremediation may be included in decontamination measures. The results of studies, such as the one conducted by us, may help to select the respective wastelands for certain purposes.

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“…Both sites emerged in the 1970s as landfills for dumping construction materials from newly built neighbourhoods made using the large panel system (LPS) technique. The material was then covered with earth from excavations performed under the blocks or, as was the case in Warsaw, from metro line excavations [6,26,27,46]. The total area of the Górka Kazurka landfill is 10 hectares, of which 5 hectares form the forefield.…”

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“…This universal analytical framework is related to (1) welcoming place (physical access and provision of signage and information); (2) healthy, safe and secure (facilities and opportunities offered for exercise, as well as general safety and security); (3) clean The research methodology of the paper is presented in Figure 4. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]13,15,16,[24][25][26][27][28][29]32,33,[38][39][40]; 3b-literature query for informal urban green spaces [2,[10][11][12]14]; 3c-collection of input materials concerning the study area [1,6,26,27,34,35,46]; 3d-determination of research method/research analytical framework; 3e-development of an evaluation questionnaire form for case study (Appendix A: Figure A1); 4-field studies; 4a-photographic documentation of the study site; 4b-distribution of an evaluation questionnaire form sheets among the site visitors (online forms, written notice posted on the surveyed sites); 5-collection and compilation of the study site evaluation statistics; 6-elaboration of results; 7-discussion of results; 8-conclusions, guidelines and summary.…”

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The Hidden Potential of Informal Urban Greenspace: An Example of Two Former Landfills in Post-Socialist Cities (Central Poland)

Długoński

Dushkova

2021

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The present study described analyses of two similar informal recreational green areas (former constructional waste disposal landfills) in two large cities (Warsaw city and Łódź city). On the basis of local society’s opinions, the land use conditions related to current accessibility, management, safety, cleanliness, variety and diversity of facility and vegetation, neighbourhood and connections with the urban green infrastructure of the given sites were studied. Overall feedback posted by the site users indicated that, despite temporary land use, both sites are good leisure areas that provide cultural ecosystem services to the citizens. However, their undefined development makes them to varying degrees neglected and risky spaces, especially for the local community. The reflection of the results of the present study may help the local authorities to manage the spaces of former landfills in accordance with the needs of the local society as well as define new functions of informal urban green space in the sustainable spatial policy in post-socialist cities in Poland and Eastern Europe.

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Urban wastelands: On the frontline between air pollution sources and residential areas

Cited by 27 publications

References 54 publications

Green Infrastructure in the Time of Social Distancing: Urban Policy and the Tactical Pandemic Urbanism

Green Infrastructure in the Time of Social Distancing: Urban Policy and the Tactical Pandemic Urbanism

Carabid Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Response to Soil Properties of Urban Wastelands in Warsaw, Poland

The Hidden Potential of Informal Urban Greenspace: An Example of Two Former Landfills in Post-Socialist Cities (Central Poland)

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