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 others are on their way to become one. But their goals are often unclear and can include different facets.

Presenting contributions from world leading researchers in the field of urban ecology, the editors provide an interdisciplinary overview of best practices and challenges in creating green cities. They show examples of how to build up these cities from bits and pieces to districts and urban extensions. Each example concludes with a summary of the collected knowledge, the learning points and how this can be used in other places. The best practices are collected from around the world - Europe, America and Asia. Contributions cover a wide range of biophysical and cultural backgrounds within these three continents, including the Central, Southern and Eastern European region, as well as Latin and North America. The new dynamic urban development of Asia is illustrated by case studies from China and the Indian subcontinent.

The reader will learn which role nature can play in green cities and what the basic requirements are in terms of culture, pre-existing nature conditions, existing urban surroundings, history, design and planning.

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Inhalt

PrefaceAbout the Editors

List of Contributors

Part I - The Green City: General Concept Part Front Matter

1 What Does "The Green City" Mean?

Jürgen Breuste

2 What Is Urban Nature?

Jürgen Breuste

3 What is Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure?

Jürgen Breuste

4 The Green City: General Concept

Jürgen Breuste

Part II - The Nature Concept - of What Urban Green Nature Consists of Part Front Matter

5 The Four Urban Natures Approach

Jürgen Breuste

6 Urban Woodlands - Remnants of Pristine Landscape

Jürgen Breuste

7 Public Urban Parks - Designed Urban Green Spaces

Jürgen Breuste

8 Urban Gardens - The Private Urban Green

Jürgen Breuste

9 Urban Waters - The Urban Blue Infrastructure

Jürgen Breuste

10 New Urban Wildernesses - Novel Urban Ecosystems

Jürgen Breuste

Part III - The Benefit Concept - How People Can Benefit from Urban Nature Part Front Matter

11 What We Expect from Urban Nature

Jürgen Breuste

12 Which Ecosystems Provide Which Ecosystem Services?

Jürgen Breuste

13 How Can Urban Ecosystem Services Be Assessed?

Jürgen Breuste

14 Biodiversity as an Urban Concept

Jürgen Breuste

Part IV - Urban Agriculture - More than Food Production Part Front Matter

15 Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria

Jürgen Breuste and Martina Artmann

16 Community Garden Practices in High-density High-rise Urban Areas in Shanghai, China

Yuelai Liu

17 Urban Gardening and Environmental Behavior of Urban Gardeners in Different Garden Forms in Barcelona, Spain

Jürgen Breuste and Andreas Hufnagel

18 Investigations on Water Utilization and Water Management Practices in Urban/Peri Urban Agriculture of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Liaqat Ali Waseem and Jürgen Breuste

19 Edible City - a New Approach for Upscaling Local Food Supply? The Case of Andernach, Germany

Martina Artmann and Katharina Sartison

20 New Forms of Urban Agriculture in Metropolitan Areas: Examples from Italy

Daniel La Rosa 21 Structure and Processes of Home Gardens in Urban Landscape: The Case of Galle, Kandy, and Jaffna Cities in Sri Lanka

Lalitha Dissanayake and M.M.G.S. Dilini

Part V - Urban Wildland - Forests, Water and Wetlands Part Front Matter

22 Urban Forests in Megacities from the Perspective of Ecosystem Services Using the Timiryazevsky Forest Park, Moscow, as a Case Study

M. Antonenko, D. Duskhova D. and T. Krasovskaya

23 Where the Rivers Were: Connecting Indigenous Blue Space to Contemporary City Design

Jacob A. Napieralski

24 Sponge City Practices for Sustainable Water Solutions in China: Reflections from two Cases

Yunfei Xu, Xiaobing Wang and Zhifang Wang

25 Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes on the Biodiversity of River Ravi, Lahore- Pakistan

Safdar Ali Shirazi, Adeel Ahmad and Salman Qureshi

26 Rehabilitation of Riverbanks in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires: from Research to Action

Anna Faggi and Jürgen Breuste

27 The Influence of Vacant Land Presence on Proliferation of Invasive Alien Plant Species. The case of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle var. Altissima

Athanasios Alexandru Gavrilidis, Simona R. Gradinaru, Marilena Onete, Jürgen Breuste and Ioan Cristian Ioja

28 Forest Reserves in Urban Landscape: Case of Udawattakele and Dunumadalawa Forest Patches in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Lalitha Dissanayake and Nilukshi Perera

Part VI - Urban Protected Areas and Urban Biodiversity Part Front Matter

29 Bridging the People-Nature Divide Using the Participatory Planning of Urban Protected Areas

Ioan-Cristian Ioja, Jurgen Breuste, Gabriel-Ovidiu Vânau, Constantina-Alina Hossu, Mihai-Razvan Ni a, Ana-Maria Popa, Diana-Andreea Onose and Andreea-Raluca Slave

30 The Nature Outside Cities: Trade-Offs and Synergies of Cultural Ecosystem Services From Natura 2000 Sites

Denisa Lavinia Badiu, Constantina Alina Hossu, Ioan Cristian Ioja and Mihai Razvan Ni a

31 Urban Biodiversity Under Global Trends and Drivers - a Comparative Study of Urban Parks in Poznan (Poland) and Salzburg (Austria)

Janina Borysiak, Jürgen Breuste and Andrzej Mizgajski

32 Relationship between built environment and biodiversity in high-density metropolitan areas: The case of Shanghai, China

Jing Gan and Jürgen Breuste

33 Urban Greening as a Response to Societal Challenges. Towards Biophilic Megacities (Case Studies of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia)

Diana Dushkova, Maria Ignatieva and Irina Melnichuk

34 Perceptions, Expectations and Preferences of Istanbul Residents Related to Nature and Nature Experience Meryem Hayir-Kanat and Jürgen Breuste

Part VII - Multi-functional Urban Green Spaces Part Front Matter

35 Relationship Between Form and Structure of Green Spaces and Uses: the Case of Parks in Buenos Aires City, Argentina

Ana Faggi and Jürgen Breuste

36 Visitors' Demands and the Present Supply of Recreational Services in Urban Parks in Shanghai (China)

Jürgen H. Breuste, Simone Zippel and Marc Giménez-Maranges

37 Urban Residents Preferences and Recreational Use of Urban Nature in Istanbul

Meryem Hayir-Kanat and Jürgen Breuste

38 Planning Multifunctional Urban Green Infrastructure for Compact Cities in Europe

Rieke Hansen and Stephan Pauleit

39 Changes in Urban Green Infrastructure in Tabriz, Iran

Akbar Rahimi and Jürgen Breuste

40 Mobile Application-based Field Survey as a Possible Tool for Investigating Visitors' Perception and Preferences of the Vegetation in Urban Parks

Péter Szilassi, Jürgen Breuste, Ronald A. Kolcsár and Gerhard Aigner

41 Searching for the Perfect Balance in the Multifunctionality of Urban Green Parks

Mihai Razvan Ni a, Ioan Cristian Ioja and Ana Maria Popa

42 Green Struggle - Environmental Conflicts Involving Urban Green Areas in Bucharest City

Diana A. Onose, Ioan Cristian Ioja, Mihai Razvan Ni a, Denisa L. Badiu and Alina C. Hossu

43 Strengthening Social Ties and Biodiversity Through an Urban Park: 18 de Septiembre Park, La Serena, Chile Sonia Reyes-Paecke, Alfonsina Puppo, Francisca Magnani and Valentina Salinas

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