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• Title:Green wedge urbanism : history, theory and contemporary practice / Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano, author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
  

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  • Call Number: HT241 .L46 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Greenways.
  Urban ecology (Sociology)
  Sustainable urban development.
  
• Description:xiv, 285 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the 'green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models - the 'green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect - a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regional planning today.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781474229180 hardback
  1474229182 hardback
  9781474229203 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Green wedge: Definitions
  Interdisciplinarity, locality, temporality and scale
  structure
  Methods and sources
  pt. ONE Green Wedges in History
  1. Urban Planning with Nature
  Enlightenment and the pursuit of nature
  Industrial Revolution and the disintegration of open spaces
  rise of town planning
  Ring vs radial growth
  Park systems
  2. Emergence and Diffusion of the Green Wedge Idea
  Radial planning, radial parks and green wedges
  Intrinsic opposition: Belts vs wedges
  Opposition resolved: Belts and wedges as elements of the same park system
  socialist city
  3. Towards a Bright Future: Green Wedge Visions for the Post-war Period
  London: The green wedge metropolis
  New towns and green spaces
  Planning new beginnings
  4. Polycentrism and Regional Planning
  Organizing the territory
  corridor-wedge model
  Green Heart and green wedges of Randstad in the Netherlands
  pt. TWO Green Wedges Today
  5. Green Spaces, Networks and Contemporary Challenges
  benefits of green spaces
  birth of urban design and the `Star City'
  Green infrastructure
  Landscape Ecology
  Landscape Urbanism
  Sustainability and resilience in face of climate change
  6. Towards Sustainable and Resilient City-regions
  Stockholm: Blue and green wedges
  Copenhagen Finger Plan: The development of a model
  green fingers of Helsinki
  Randstad: From Green Heart to Green-Blue Delta
  Melbourne towards 2030
  Freiburg: The green wedge and the mountain-valley systems
  7. Green Wedges: From the City-region to the Neighbourhood
  Hamburg green network plan
  Raggi Verdi of Milan
  Songzhuang Arts and Agriculture city: A new form of urban-rural relationship
  Green wedges at multiple scales: Viikki
  Rieselfeld
  Vauban
  neighbourhood scale: Dunsfold Park, UK
  green wedge as a typology: La Sagrera Linear Park
  Green Wedge Urbanism: Past, Present and Future
  green wedge idea: From the city scale to the polycentric region
  Towards a theory of green wedge urbanism
  Final words.