Panagopoulos, Thomas <br/><br/>
Landscape Urbanism and Green Infrastructure 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 electronic resource (184 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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 critical connections between natural and urban systems. In light of ongoing developments in landscape architecture, the goal is a paradigm shift towards a landscape that restores and rehabilitates urban ecosystems. Nine contributions examine a wide range of successful cases of designing livable and resilient cities in different geographical contexts, from the United States of America to Australia and Japan, and through several European cities in Italy, Portugal, Estonia, and Greece. While some chapters attempt to conceptualize the interconnections between cities and nature, others clearly have an empirical focus. Efforts such as the use of ornamental helophyte plants in bioretention ponds to reduce and treat stormwater runoff, the recovery of a poorly constructed urban waterway or participatory approaches for optimizing the location of green stormwater infrastructure and examining the environmental justice issue of equative availability and accessibility to public open spaces make these innovations explicit. Thus, this volume contributes to the sustainable cities goal of the United Nations. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-03921-370-2 9783039213702 9783039213696 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03921-370-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>public perception urban sustainability public open space landscape urbanism urban ecology re-naturing cities floating treatment wetland viable city deprived areas urban planning renaturing cities Greece postal questionnaire pedestrian zones street verges landscape first public green infrastructure (PGI) resource rationalization context-sensitive design green infrastructure environmental justice river restoration public amenity well-being sustainable cities Japan recreation plant ecology social equity runoff sustainable development Soviet-era housing blocks regenerative design biophilic urbanism livability post-postmodernism landscape history nature-based solutions vacant land nature-based solution built environment green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) urban nature (UN) urban design geographic information systems landscape theory urban geography residents’ views pollutant removal liveability visitor satisfaction survey biophilic design Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) urban nature spontaneous vegetation Asia green gentrification site suitability modeling landscape architecture Roma minority Philadelphia