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How are greenways designed? What situations lead to their genesis, and what examples best illustrate their potential for enhancing communities and the environment? Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation design to illustrate how greenways function and add value to ecosystems and human communities alike.

Encompassing everything from urban trail corridors to river floodplains to wilderness-like linkages, greenways preserve or improve the integrity of the landscape, not only by stemming the loss of natural features, but also by engendering new natural and social functions. From 19th-century parks and parkways to projects still on the drawing boards, Designing Greenways is a fascinating introduction to the possibilities-and pitfalls-involved in these ambitious projects. As towns and cities look to greenways as a new way of reconciling man and nature, designers and planners will look to Designing Greenways as an invaluable compendium of best practices.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Greenway Functions, Design, and History(p. 1)
• Greenways and Landscape Integrity: An Overview(p. 1)
• Landscape Problems and Greenway Opportunities(p. 10)
• A Strategic Greenway Design Approach(p. 22)
• Greenways and Sustainable Design: The Significance of Scale and Equity(p. 23)
• Evolution of Greenways from Linear Conservation and Transportation Corridors(p. 26)
• Greenway Examples(p. 34)
• Chapter 2 Greenway Ecology and the Integrity of Landscapes: An Illustrated Primer(p. 42)
• Bringing Together Diverse Perspectives(p. 42)
• A Willingness to Communicate beyond Narrow Limits(p. 43)
• Landscape Ecology a Boon to Greenway Design(p. 43)
• Landscape Ecology as an Inclusive Perspective(p. 44)
• Taking the Broader View(p. 45)
• Getting to Know a Landscape at a Human Scale(p. 45)
• An Illustrated Primer: The Language of Landscape Integrity(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 Greenways as Wildlife Corridors(p. 70)
• Wildlife Movement and the Role for Corridors(p. 72)
• Corridors at Habitat(p. 74)
• Corridors in Daily and Seasonal Wildlife Movements(p. 82)
• Corridors and Other Landscape Elements in Dispersal(p. 84)
• The Role of Dispersal Corridors in Population Persistence(p. 87)
• The Role of Corridors in Facilitating Long-Distance Range Shifts(p. 90)
• Key Greenway Design Issues(p. 92)
• Conclusion(p. 99)
• Chapter 4 Riparian Greenways and Water Resources(p. 108)
• Structure of Riparian Corridors and Their Associated Watersheds(p. 109)
• Riparian Corridor Functions(p. 114)
• Effects of Human Activities on Riparian Corridors(p. 132)
• Applications in Design and Management(p. 135)
• Conclusion(p. 150)
• Chapter 5 The Social Ecology of Landscape Design: Applications for Greenways(p. 158)
• Society and Nature: Understanding the Human Landscape(p. 159)
• The Social Basis of Landscape Change: Ideas, Institutions, and Participation(p. 167)
• Applications: Greenways as Part of a Reinvigorated Commons(p. 178)
• Conclusion(p. 202)
• Chapter 6 Ecological Greenway Design(p. 207)
• Chatfield Basin Conservation Network: An Example(p. 208)
• Design Makes a Difference(p. 210)
• Dealing with the Complexity of Greenway Design and Confusion among Designers(p. 210)
• Greenways Can Be a Component of Sustainable Design(p. 211)
• Language, Principles, and Models for Greenway Design(p. 213)
• A Design Method: Getting the Greenway Vision(p. 215)
• Greenway Design Method(p. 222)
• Sources of Information for the Greenway Design Method(p. 254)
• Finding and Using Maps(p. 254)
• Conclusion(p. 256)
• Epilogue: Landscape Lines to Hold(p. 259)
• Index(p. 263)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Paul Cawood Hellmund is director of the Conway School of Landscape Design in western Massachusetts
Daniel Somers Smith teaches environmental studies at Ramapo College and resides in Mahwah, New Jersey