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Adaptive Reuse for Urban Food Provision

Monika Szopinska-Mularz

This book analyses the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city modern movement car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture systems and the contribution of such a transformation to urban development. Modern movement garages built over the last 60 years...

2022-07-12 |

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Growing Food in Cities

Nicholas Ardill

This book examines social innovation strategies in the collaborative development of spaces for growing food in cities. It enables readers to gain valuable insights into an innovative social and spatial practice whilst advancing knowledge in an emerging area of research....

2022-05-11 |

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Ecoregional Green Roofs

Bruce Dvorak

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada. While green roofs were intended to sustain local or regional vegetation, this volume describes how green roofs in their modern form are typically planted with a...

2021-02-05 |

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Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure

Andrea Arcidiacono , Silvia Ronchi

The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy. It provides insights on the opportunities and challenges in the adoption of an ecosystem services (ES)-based approach for Spatial Planning...

2020-10-19 |

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Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces

Nicola Dempsey , Julian Dobson

This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban...

2020-08-04 |

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Making Green Cities

Martina Artmann , Jürgen Breuste , Cristian Ioja , Salman Qureshi

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live. People, planners, designers and politicians are working towards the development of green cities. Some cities are already promoted as green cities, while...

2020-02-22 |

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Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning

Carlo Rega

Spatial planning defines how men use one of the most important and scarce resources on Earth: land. Planners therefore play a key role in countering or deepening the current ecological crisis. To foster ecological transitions, planning scholars and practitioners need to...

2020-01-16 |

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Planning Cities with Nature

Fabiano Lemes De Oliveira , Ian Mell

This book explores novel theories, strategies and methods for re-naturing cities. It enables readers to learn from best practice and advances the current theoretical and empirical understanding in the field. The book also offers valuable insights into how planners and...

2019-02-02 |

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Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics

Itzhak Benenson , Danny Czamanski , Dan Malkinson

As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical...

2013-12-09 |

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