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Open Spaces as an Urban System
2020According to a 2018 United Nations report, by 2050, more than 7.7 billion people will be living in urban areas. One can predict that this rapid rate of urbanization, if uncontrolled, will reduce the quality of open spaces in cities. In response to the dilemmas posed by these forces, this chapter explores the urban design concepts which will comprise ...
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Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 1970
(1970). Urban Open Space Programming. Journal of the American Institute of Planners: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 65-68.
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(1970). Urban Open Space Programming. Journal of the American Institute of Planners: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 65-68.
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Re-Envisioning Urban Open Spaces
2022Cities are expanding rapidly, and the impact of dense human-oriented urban systems on ecosystems is both direct (conversion of natural land cover to urban footprint) and indirect. Human settlements are more complex than any other ecosystems as they meet human socio-ecological needs and support local biodiversity.
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Treating open space as an urban amenity
Resource and Energy Economics, 2002Abstract In “the welfare economics of city bigness”, George Tolley asserts that the virtual price of amenities can be used to judge the efficiency of a urban spatial land use patterns. Expanding this test to open space amenities is not straightforward because those amenities are especially difficult to characterize. Bockstael and Irwin [Economics and
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URBAN OPEN SPACE PLANNING IN FRANCE
Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 1988ABSTRACT Souchon-Zahn (1985) has argued that there is a philosophy underlying land use planning in France in recent years which is based on two sets of motivations: those corresponding to inescapable requirements, i.e. themes of civilisation, of progress, of future, and those corresponding to an original way of meeting these inescapable requirements, i.
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2004
There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play. Urban Open Spaces brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of different types of open space to ...
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There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play. Urban Open Spaces brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of different types of open space to ...
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Urban spaces as public action ‘made durable’. Open spaces and urban change in Milan
2013peer ...
BRICOCOLI, MASSIMO, SAVOLDI, PAOLA
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Green areas in open urban spaces
2005The paper consists in two parts: the first is about the effects of vegetation on microclimate in urban areas. Experimental data in different contexts case studies- are analysed in order to define strategies for cooling. The second part deal with a plant data base which the authors are elaborating to aid designers in the selection and use of plants ...
MARINO, Donatella +2 more
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