Planning Cities with Nature Theories, Strategies and Methods /c Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Ian Mell, editors

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 policymakers can apply this knowledge to their own cities and regions, exploring top-down, bottom-up and mixed mechanisms for the systemic re-naturing of planned and existing cities. There is considerable interest in ‘naturalising’ cities, since it can help address multiple global societal challenges and generate various benefits, such as the enhancement of health and well-being, sustainable urbanisation, ecosystems and their services, and resilience to climate change. This can also translate into tangible economic benefits in terms of preventing health hazards, positively affecting health-related expenditure, new job opportunities (i.e. urban farming) and the regeneration of urban areas. There is, thus, a compelling case to investigate integrative approaches to urban and natural systems that can help cities address the social, economic and environmental needs of a growing population. How can we plan with nature? What are the models and approaches that can be used to develop more sustainable cities that provide high-quality urban green spaces? Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Understanding Landscape: Cultural Perceptions of Environment in the UK and China (Ying Li, Ian Mell)....Pages 3-16 Green Wedges: The Resilience of a Planning Idea (Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira)....Pages 17-27 Demystified Territories: City Versus Countryside in Andrea Branzi’s Urban Models (Pablo Martínez Capdevila)....Pages 29-43 The Introduction of Nature in the Austrian Radicals Practice (Alessandro Melis)....Pages 45-63 University Campuses: Experimentations on the Relations Between City and Nature in Brazil (Klaus C. Alberto)....Pages 65-77 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Towards a Spatial Planning Framework for the Re-naturing of Cities (Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira)....Pages 81-95 Green Networks as a Key of Urban Planning with Thermal Comfort and Well-being (Ornella Iuorio, Loyde A. Harbich)....Pages 97-109 Relationships Between Urban Green Areas and Health in China, Brazil and the UK (Klaus C. Alberto, Loyde A. Harbich, Ying Li)....Pages 111-119 Planning a Green City: The Case of Helsinki, 2002–2018 (Matti O. Hannikainen)....Pages 121-134 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 The Democracy of Green Infrastructure: Some Examples from Brazil and Europe (S. Caputo, V. Donoso, Fabiana Izaga, P. Britto)....Pages 137-152 Re-naturing the City for Health and Wellbeing: Green/Blue Urban Spaces as Sites of Renewal and Contestation (Mary Gearey, Lynette Robertson, Jamie Anderson, Paula Barros, Deborah Cracknell)....Pages 153-168 Do Built Environment Assessment Systems Include High-Quality Green Infrastructure? (Danielle Sinnett, Tom Calvert, Nick Smith)....Pages 169-186 Establishing Payment for Environmental Services in Urban Areas (José Antônio Tietzmann e Silva, Josyanne P. Giesta, Luciane M. de Araújo, Mariana R. R. dos Santos)....Pages 187-198 Perspectives on Green: Recent Urbanisation Works and Measures in Brazil and India (Fabiana Izaga, José Guilherme Schutzer, Komali Kantamaneni)....Pages 199-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Understanding and Applying Ecological Principles in Cities (Heather Rumble, Fabio Angeoletto, Stuart Connop, Mark A. Goddard, Caroline Nash)....Pages 217-234 People-Policy-Options-Scale (PPOS) Framework: Reconceptualising Green Infrastructure Planning (Ian Mell, Camila Sant’Anna, Karin Schwabe Meneguetti, Julia Rodrigues Leite)....Pages 235-249 For More Sponge Cities (Karla Emmanuela Ribeiro Hora, Maurício Martines Sales)....Pages 251-263 Green Infrastructure in the Space of Flows: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing (Daniela Perrotti, Ornella Iuorio)....Pages 265-277 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 Re-naturing our Future Cities (Ian Mell, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira)....Pages 281-285