Ecosystem services come to town : greening cities by working with nature / Grant, Gary, 1958- txt

Por:

Gary Grant

Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012Edición: First published 2012Descripción: 220p. col. ; ill 25 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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volume

ISBN:

9781405195065

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Clasificación CDD:

711.4

Clasificación LoC:

NA 905.E58 G73 2012

Contenidos:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Author; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; Modern Cities and the Disconnected; Population Spike; Limits to Growth; Global Threats; Ecosystem Services and Stewardship; Greening Cities is Necessary; Hope; 2. Origins of Cities; Why Look Back?; Emergence of the Human Species; Great Leap Forward; Agriculture and Permanent Settlements; Agriculture Around the World; Agriculture Intensifies; Empires Rise and Fall in Mesopotamia; Nile Valley; Indus Valley; Ancient China; Ancient Greece; On the Ganges; Rome; The Moche; Mesoamerica. Fortified Centres of AdministrationEuropean Renaissance; Early Modern; Squalor; 3. Modern Cities; Origins of the Modern City; Industrial Revolution; Railways; Rapid Growth; Ill Health; Distinctive New Districts Emerge; Paris Re-born; Railways and Suburbs; Planning and Zoning; Garden Cities; Motor Vehicles Herald in the Oil Age; A Humane Outlook; Going Up; Continued Rise of the Motor Vehicle; Decline of the Inner City; New Towns; City Plans; An Unfinished Task; 4. Issues Facing Contemporary Cities; Impacts of Cities and City Living; Habitat Loss; Habitat Fragmentation; Impacts on Soil. The Water CycleWater-borne Pollution; Urban Heat Islands; Air Pollution; Noise; Light Pollution; Agricultural Land Take; Concrete; Steel; Glass; Timber; Waste; Drivers of Population Growth; Peak Oil; Peak Phosphorus; Post Oil; 5. Working with Nature; Ecology and Ecosystems; Born Free; Saving the Great Lakes; Earth Summit, Ecosystem Assessment and Ecosystem Services; Cities as Part of the Biosphere; Ecological Restoration; Urban Wildlife; Green Infrastructure; Sustainable Sites Initiative; Advice from Professional Bodies and Others; Mimic Nature; Working with Nature Works; 6. Urban Nature. Open Space PreservationThe Naturalists; Nature Leaves the City?; Urban Nature Returns; Wildlife Gardens; Encapsulated Countryside; Bukit Timah; The Urban Forest; Urban Wastelands; Canvey Wick; Emscher Park; Urban Farming; Biodiversity Action Plans; River Corridors; London's South Bank; Minneapolis Riverfront; 7. Water and Cities; Fresh Clean Water -- Essential and Increasingly Scarce; Civilisation has Modified the Water Cycle; Water Consumption; Embodied Carbon; Virtual Water; Catchment Management; Rainwater Harvesting; Grey Water; Sustainable Urban Drainage; Water Sensitive Urban Design. Rain GardensThe Streets are Changing; Ponds; Potsdamer Platz; River Restoration; The Cheonggyecheon River; Singapore; Water and Urban Heat Islands; Towards the Water Sensitive City; 8. City-wide Greening; Bioregions; Catchment Management for Clean Water; Catchment Management for Ecosystem Services; Regional Green Infrastructure Plans; Biomass and the Bioregion; Regional Ecological Networks; Community Forests; Green Belts; Green Grids; Transport; Urban Heat Islands; Blue Networks; Masterplanning; Regional Plans, Local Implementation; 9. Greening Neighbourhoods and Buildings.

Resumen: The need to find new approaches to the development of cities is becoming increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development & ndash; even in the built environment. Ecosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, citie.

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Ecosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, cities can become more efficient and more pleasant to live in. The history of cities and city planning is covered with the impacts of industrial urban development described, as well as the contemporary concerns of biodiversity loss, peak oil and climate change.

The later sections offer solutions to the challenges of sustainable urban development by describing and explaining a whole range of approaches and interventions, beginning at the regional scale with strategic green infrastructure, looking at districts and precincts, with trees, parks and rain gardens and ending with single buildings, including with green roofs and living walls.

Technical enough to be valuable to practitioners but still readable and inspirational, this guide demonstrates to town planners, urban designers, architects, engineers, landscape architects how to make cities more liveable.

Includes bibliographical reference and Index

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Author; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; Modern Cities and the Disconnected; Population Spike; Limits to Growth; Global Threats; Ecosystem Services and Stewardship; Greening Cities is Necessary; Hope; 2. Origins of Cities; Why Look Back?; Emergence of the Human Species; Great Leap Forward; Agriculture and Permanent Settlements; Agriculture Around the World; Agriculture Intensifies; Empires Rise and Fall in Mesopotamia; Nile Valley; Indus Valley; Ancient China; Ancient Greece; On the Ganges; Rome; The Moche; Mesoamerica. Fortified Centres of AdministrationEuropean Renaissance; Early Modern; Squalor; 3. Modern Cities; Origins of the Modern City; Industrial Revolution; Railways; Rapid Growth; Ill Health; Distinctive New Districts Emerge; Paris Re-born; Railways and Suburbs; Planning and Zoning; Garden Cities; Motor Vehicles Herald in the Oil Age; A Humane Outlook; Going Up; Continued Rise of the Motor Vehicle; Decline of the Inner City; New Towns; City Plans; An Unfinished Task; 4. Issues Facing Contemporary Cities; Impacts of Cities and City Living; Habitat Loss; Habitat Fragmentation; Impacts on Soil. The Water CycleWater-borne Pollution; Urban Heat Islands; Air Pollution; Noise; Light Pollution; Agricultural Land Take; Concrete; Steel; Glass; Timber; Waste; Drivers of Population Growth; Peak Oil; Peak Phosphorus; Post Oil; 5. Working with Nature; Ecology and Ecosystems; Born Free; Saving the Great Lakes; Earth Summit, Ecosystem Assessment and Ecosystem Services; Cities as Part of the Biosphere; Ecological Restoration; Urban Wildlife; Green Infrastructure; Sustainable Sites Initiative; Advice from Professional Bodies and Others; Mimic Nature; Working with Nature Works; 6. Urban Nature. Open Space PreservationThe Naturalists; Nature Leaves the City?; Urban Nature Returns; Wildlife Gardens; Encapsulated Countryside; Bukit Timah; The Urban Forest; Urban Wastelands; Canvey Wick; Emscher Park; Urban Farming; Biodiversity Action Plans; River Corridors; London's South Bank; Minneapolis Riverfront; 7. Water and Cities; Fresh Clean Water --
Essential and Increasingly Scarce; Civilisation has Modified the Water Cycle; Water Consumption; Embodied Carbon; Virtual Water; Catchment Management; Rainwater Harvesting; Grey Water; Sustainable Urban Drainage; Water Sensitive Urban Design. Rain GardensThe Streets are Changing; Ponds; Potsdamer Platz; River Restoration; The Cheonggyecheon River; Singapore; Water and Urban Heat Islands; Towards the Water Sensitive City; 8. City-wide Greening; Bioregions; Catchment Management for Clean Water; Catchment Management for Ecosystem Services; Regional Green Infrastructure Plans; Biomass and the Bioregion; Regional Ecological Networks; Community Forests; Green Belts; Green Grids; Transport; Urban Heat Islands; Blue Networks; Masterplanning; Regional Plans, Local Implementation; 9. Greening Neighbourhoods and Buildings.

The need to find new approaches to the development of cities is becoming increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development & ndash; even in the built environment. Ecosystem Services come to Town: greening cities by working with nature demonstrates how to make urban environments greener. It starts by explaining how, by mimicking nature and deliberately creating habitats to provide ecosystem services, citie.

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CHOICE Review

Environmentalist Grant (Univ. College London, UK) has consulted on geographically dispersed projects primarily concerned with sustaining green resources in urban environments. He describes the goals and missions of past projects in chapters that address urban environmental issues historically and from an idealistic perspective, including specific examples for each "green infrastructure" concept. His discussions and recommendations for urban environmental problems range from the management of street "tree trenches," to "living walls," to rooftop gardens. The author finds "squatter settlements" in various parts of the world to be "remarkably efficient," stating that they "provide people with attractive dwellings and workplaces with an excellent family and cultural life." He pushes the boundaries of prioritizing ecological values and design concepts in this beautifully illustrated book; however, any honest attempt to put these issues in perspective with other urban concerns would necessitate, at minimum, a dose of modesty and perhaps a more serious focus on planning green spaces to meet urban human needs. The book can be a useful supplemental resource for students in urban studies, offering many wonderful ideas and a general sense of optimism. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic, professional, and large public libraries. D. E. Cleary York College

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Gary Grant is a Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, Member of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Biodiversity, thesis supervisor at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, Chair of the Judges of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition and Director of the Green Roof Consultancy Ltd. As director of EDAW and then AECOM Design + Planning and now independent, he has worked on large scale planning projects including the London 2012 Olympic Park, the Bedford Valley River Park, the Whitehill-Bordon Eco Town, Education City, Qatar and Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.

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