Using the Concepts of Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services to Specify Leitbilder for Compact and Green Cities—The Example of the Landscape Plan of Dresden (Germany)

Artmann, Martina; Bastian, Olaf; Grunewald, Karsten

doi:10.3390/su9020198

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“…Moreover, the ES concept specifies in particular the social benefits that ecosystem functions provide to people, enables the differentiation between stakeholders, and thus interlinks beneficiaries with ecological assets identified in landscape planning. In this way, the lacking demand side of ESs in landscape planning can be complemented [20]. The interplay between ES supply and demand makes the concept of ESs a powerful tool for approaching compact and green cities.…”

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“…as well as the relationship between ESs and biodiversity Cities worldwide have been trying to achieve a sustainable urban form to handle their rapid urban growth. Currently, however, we lack integrative guidelines on how to manage trade-offs between urban densification and the provision of green space [20]. Many sustainable urban forms have been studied, and two of them, the compact city and the eco-city, were chosen in the study by Handayanto et al [21], which were examined in more detail.…”

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“…The study of Artmann et al [20] applies the concepts of green infrastructure and ESs to develop a guideline for landscape planning so as to foster compact and green cities. The guideline was tested on the example of the landscape plan of Dresden (Germany), which foresees a compact city in a green network.…”

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Special Issue: “Maintaining Ecosystem Services to Support Urban Needs”

Grunewald

Olaf

2017

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Cities are growing worldwide, in their geographical extent with respect to their general and current macro-economic significance, as well as regarding their total populations. Thereby, land and resource utilization are increasing in and around agglomeration centers, as are the requirements for a good quality of life and health. Current projections of rapid expansion of urban areas present fundamental challenges but also opportunities to design more livable, healthy, and resilient cities [1,2].Often, the city has been treated in geographical writings as merely a social phenomenon, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban perspective [3]. In recent years, social, economic, and environmental considerations have led to a reevaluation of the factors that contribute to sustainable urban environments. In this context, urban green space is increasingly seen as an integral part of cities that provides a range of services to both the people and the wildlife living in urban areas [4]. It is widely accepted that forests, surface waters, parks, and gardens make up a significant part of the quality of life in cities. They represent urban ecological features, provide numerous ecosystem services, such as the adaptation to climate change impacts, and are essential for the urban population in terms of environmental education and contact with nature.With this recognition and resulting from the simultaneous provision of different services by urban ecosystems, there is a real need to identify a research framework in which to develop multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on urban green space and to quantify and communicate its value in terms of ecosystem services accounting in space and time. Studies investigating the effects of urban green space on well-being and health show how important nature is for human well-being in urban areas. All these studies provide helpful information for policy and planning on the optimal amount of green space provision for well-being and health in close vicinity to the residential areas [2].

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Olaf

2017

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“…While the linkages between human well-being and environmental preservation are known, Cilliers and Cilliers [59], alert that socio-economic pressures often take precedence in the South African context. The current reality suggests that green infrastructure and green spaces are often neglected or sacrificed, affirmed by Artmann et al [50], by also emphasising this phenomenon on a regional scale. Green urbanism is not viewed as a phenomenon confined to élite academia.…”

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“…The turn of the century saw a worldwide diaspora of sustainability principles into neighbourhood development [49]. It is believed that, compared to the planning approaches elaborated upon in the preceding sections, green urbanism, as a planning approach, is seen as metamorphic and presented in many forms and tributaries [16], [50], [51]. It emerged internationally as a way of understanding, how green assets and ecological systems function, as part of the infrastructural fabric that supports and sustains society and builds resilience [52].…”

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Considering New Urbanism, New Ruralism and Green Urbanism in Response to Multifunctionality: The Case of Verkykerskop, South Africa

Viviers

Cornelius

Cilliers

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Paul Davidoff charged planners in 1965, as a profession making urban life more beautiful, exciting, creative and more just, as having little to say. The task thereupon was to train a generation of planners to go well beyond the designers of the sixties in their ability to prescribe future urban life. Nijkamp, in 1980, affirms the utopians' claim that the future is open and flexible, and that every development in the community, could imply a surprising step towards something better. A half century since Davidoff's indications, planners encounter ever expanding planning approaches, "towards something better", ranging from compact cities, transit oriented developments, new urbanism, new ruralism, shared cities, to smart growth and, of late, green urbanism and eco-cities; all in response to multifunctionality. Although the concept of multifunctionality has gained increasing attention the last decade, there is much frustration amongst planners regarding a proper set of broadly based definitions and clear statements concerning its scientific points of departure. This research argues that a combination of planning approaches are a more suitable response in attaining multifunctional land use; especially as megatrends underscore the need for moving away from seeking a predictable single future or outcome. The uniqueness of the Southern African landscape, inherently being rural, necessitated a rural accentuation on multifunctionality. Applying theory-based sampling as part of qualitative inquiry into the recently planned rural village of Verkykerskop, acclaimed by the Charter for New Urbanism in 2012, it is questioned whether the reciprocal employment of planning approaches induced multifunctional rural land use. Offering a design philosophy, whereby "farming, playing and living" is attained through the combined appliance of new urbanism, rural urbanism and green urbanism in planning the rural village, conclusions are drawn relating to the conduciveness of these approaches in achieving multifunctional rural land use. Keywords: multifunctionality, multifunctional land use, multifunctional rural land use, new urbanism, new ruralism and green urbanism.

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