Re-naturing our future cities

Ian Mell; Fabiano Lemes De Oliveira

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_19

Re-naturing our future cities

Ian Mell, Fabiano Lemes De Oliveira

University of Manchester

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Abstract

Cities need nature. They thrive on riparian corridors, urban forestry and public spaces. Without urban nature, our cities would overheat, flood and become quickly unpleasant to live in. Therefore, a basic principle of urban planning is nature, and an understanding of the capacity and functionality of the natural environment is critical to our creation and management of sustainable cities. How we achieve this is, however, more variable and subject to a range of political, socio-economic and ecological factors, many of which have been explored within this book.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Planning Cities with Nature
Subtitle of host publication	Theories, Strategies and Methods
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	19
Pages	281-285
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-01866-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-01865-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_19
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2019

Publication series

Name	Cities and Nature
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2520-8306

Keywords

re-naturing
Sustainable urbanism
green infrastructure

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10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_19

https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783030018658

2 Citations
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Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods
Lemes De Oliveira, F. (ed.) & Mell, I. (ed.), 27 Feb 2019, Springer. 285 p. (Cities and Nature)
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Re-naturing our future cities

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Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods

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