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Green infrastructure to enhance urban sustainability
Green infrastructure is one of the main design strategies that must be developed within the urban plans of any city, its essential role in achieving the principles of sustainability and enhance its social, economic and environmental pillars. It contributes to increasing the quality of life within urban cities, areas and vitality, as well as making it ...
Donya Hameed Ali Alanbari +2 more
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Landscape Urbanism and Green Infrastructure [PDF]
This volume examines the applicability of landscape urbanism theory in contemporary landscape architecture practice by bringing together ecology and architecture in the built environment. Using participatory planning of green infrastructure and application of nature-based solutions to address urban challenges, landscape urbanism seeks to reintroduce ...
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Spatial and urban planning are directed towards achieving territorial cohesion as one of the sustainable development goals. Considering the hybrid concept of green infrastructure, this paper aims to provide an “ecological model” of achieving territorial ...
Luka Bajić +4 more
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With the rapid development of urbanization and industrial economy, urban green space and land resources have been squeezed. The problem of urban ecological environment pollution is becoming increasingly serious.
Feng Zhang, Xintian Wang, Xiaojie Liu
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Some suggestions for Urban planning approach to Green Infrastructure, implications for Vinh city, Nghe An province, Viet Nam [PDF]
Research on green infrastructure has become a mainstream of managers, planners and architects around the world given its utmost impacts on human life and nature.
Nguyen-Thi Kieu-Vinh +1 more
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Green infrastructure and urban sustainability [PDF]
Temperature increase in urban areas due to the urban heat island as well as the global climate change inevitably raises the peak load supply for space cooling as well as the risk of heat-related illness in hot climate. This paper provides the comprehensive review of the thermal mitigation effect of urban vegetation based on the field observations.
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A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization
Multifunctional green infrastructure, a key component of compact sustainable cities, is challenged by the pressures associated with rapid urbanization. In this paper, we present a method that uses remote sensing, GIS modeling and stakeholder engagement ...
Peta Brom +5 more
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National Inventory and Morphological Analysis of Urban Squares in Hungary
This study examines the entire urban network of Hungary, excluding Budapest, with the primary goal of creating a nationwide cadastre that systematically documents the country’s stock of urban squares found in cities.
Anna Andrea Szövényi +2 more
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Given the significance of green infrastructure in enhancing social, economic and ecological sustainability of the built environment, it is important to unearth how green infrastructure can influence pro-environmental behaviours among the urban ...
Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu +2 more
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The concept of green infrastructure has gained political momentum globally and, therefore, has been rapidly introduced into planning theory, policy, and practice in the USA and Europe. Yet, it does not have a single widely recognised or accepted definition and has been adopted fluidly by various disciplines.
Li, Ying, Mell, Ian
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