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As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the 'green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models - the 'green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect - a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regional planning today. Part history, and part contemporary argument, this book first examines the emergence and global diffusion of the green wedge in town planning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, placing it in the broader historic context of debates and ideas for urban planning with nature, before going on to explore its use in contemporary urban practice. Examining their relation to green infrastructures, landscape ecology and landscape urbanism and their potential for sustainable cities, it highlights the continued relevance of a historic idea in an era of rapid climate change.

Ceintures vertes --- Écologie urbaine --- Coulées vertes --- Villes --- Urbanisme durable --- Greenways --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Sustainable urban development --- Aspect environnemental --- human ecology --- greenways --- Environmental planning --- rural planning --- urban planning --- sustainable development --- Ceintures vertes. --- Écologie urbaine. --- Coulées vertes. --- Urbanisme durable. --- Aspect environnemental. --- 711.4:504 --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- City planning --- Sustainable development --- Linear parks --- Open spaces --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmental aspects --- 71:574 --- 711.12 --- Regionale stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw ; groen in de stad --- Stedelijk landschap ; groene ruimtes ; stadsbossen --- Regionale ruimtelijke planning --- Openbaar groen; stedelijke groene ruimten --- 711.4(B) --- Stedenbouw en ecologie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; planningtheorie ; methoden en technieken ; participatie --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening--ontwerpen van de steden --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; ontwerpen van de steden --- Écologie urbaine --- Coulées vertes.

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City planning. --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Agricultura urbana. --- Urbanisme

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This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture. Productive landscapes today have been posited as instruments for the positive transformation related to territorial fragility and abandonment, promoting social cohesion, food security and wider environmental and economic benefits. The book will re-map the way in which seeming landscape limitations and challenges can be turned into potential, innovation and a new lease of urban-rural life. It does so by drawing on significant past urban agricultural experiences in planning as vectors for new critical reflections relevant to re-igniting ideas for future envisioning of urban scenarios in which productive landscapes play fundamental transformative roles. The focus is on planning ideas and the roles of key individual planners, all of which have designed agricultural strategies for the city at some point in their careers. It intends to help us today reimagine urban-rural relationships, and the transformation of under or mis-used urban open spaces, peri-urban areas, fringe conditions and in-between spaces.

General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Environmental planning --- Geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- landbouw --- ecologie --- geografie

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General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Production management --- Environmental planning --- ecologie --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- milieutechnologie --- reizen --- klimaatverandering

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Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes. This book provides insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance tools for successfully integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban planning practice. The selected contributions present real-life application cases, in which the mainstreaming of NBS are investigated according to two main challenges: the planning and designing of physical and spatial integration of NBS in cities on one side, and the implementation of suitable shared governance models and co-creation pathways on the other. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. The authors have done an excellent job in presenting extremely comprehensive information and knowledge about NBS in a very simple and easy to understand way, even by non-experts. Congrats to them, the EU-funded projects that supported the research such as Horizon 2020 project Clever Cities. I hope the urban authorities and the professionals in the field will embrace it and use it in exercising their daily duties and tasks. Christos Fragakis, Policy Officer, Future Urban & Mobility Systems, EC (DG RTD).

Sociology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Environmental planning --- Geography --- landschapsarchitectuur --- ruimtelijke ordening --- sociologie --- steden --- ecologie --- geografie --- milieutechnologie