1st Edition
Global Green Infrastructure Lessons for successful policy-making, investment and management
By Ian Mell
Copyright 2016
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the last decade research exploring green infrastructure planning has burgeoned. Transferable green infrastructure messages between locations though are less well established and there remains a visible gap between the conceptual understanding of green infrastructure and its application in practice. Drawing together evaluations of green infrastructure policy-making and practice from across... Read more
1. Green Infrastructure: What, where and why? 2. The Antecedents of Green Infrastructure: Olmsted, Howard and Beyond, 3. Green infrastructure: Linking Concepts with Practice, 4. The USA: Water Management in Chicago and the Atlanta Beltline Development, 5. UK: the London Olympic Park and Cambridgeshire Green Infrastructure Strategy, 6. Europe - Green Infrastructure Development in Paris (France) and Milan (Italy), 7. India: Lessons in Innovative Green Infrastructure Planning in New Delhi and Ahmedabad, 8. China – Evaluating the Value of Green Infrastructure Planning in Shanghai, 9. Global Reflections of Green Infrastructure Investment: Successes and Barriers
Biography
Ian Mell is a Lecturer in Planning & Civic Design at the University of Liverpool. He teaches and researches green infrastructure and planning issues across the world, evaluating the opportunities and disconnects between landscape planning strategy, policy and practice.
