1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities Climate, Society and Health
This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people’s health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the “state-of-the-art” and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities.
Foreword
Wong Mun Summ
Introduction: Greening High-Density Cities: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Urban Habitats
Peng Du, Kheir Al-Kodmany and Mir M. Ali
1. Cities’ Match-Making: Fostering International Collaboration For Climate-Resilient Twins
Iacopo Neri and Erzë Dinarama
2. An Analysis of the Potential Role of Controlled Environment Agriculture in Dense Urban Developments: A Case Study of Chicago
Tristan Searight, Khadija Benis amd Christoph Reinhart
3. Mitigating Climate Change: The Potential of Vertical Farming to Feed High-Density Cities
Kheir Al-Kodmany
4. A Modular Greening Intervention in Sydney CBD: Variation and Optimization through Evolutionary Computation
Mohammed Makki and James Melsom
5. Greening High-Density Texas Cities: Ecological Grounds for an Adaptive Climate Approach
Peter S. Raab
6. Greening the Gray and Dense Center of São Paulo, Brazil: From Green Roofs to Disputed Fragments of Green Spaces
Wendel Henrique Baumgartner and Humberto Catuzzo
7. Overcoming the Planning Gap by Greening the City: From Designing for the Past to Anticipating Future Climates
Rob Roggema
8. Inhabiting, Expanding, and Greening: The Previ Housing Development Approach
Andrés Pinzón
9. Juan Diaz River Basin Study Case: How To Green a High-density City
Haydée Osorio Ugarte, Amsley Medina, Alexandra Aparicio, Daisy Márquez, Astrid Ruiz, Annette Saénz and Karen Bonilla
10. Greening Buildings, Open Spaces and Infrastructures: Circular and Regenerative Climate Actions Linking Environmental with Social Aspects
Maria Beatrice Andreucci
11. Urbanizing the Amazonian Rainforest: A Multi-Objective Urban Model for Rainforest Cohabitation
Blake Raymond, Alexander Clisdell, Mia Evans-Liauw and Mohammed Makki
12. The Social Imperative of Urban Greening
Rob Fleming
13. Beyond Upgrading: Rental Densification as a Pattern for Urban Greening
Kristine Stiphany
14. The Role of Green Space in Urban Growth and Social Equity in Dallas, Texas
Hyesun Jeong and Matthew Ables
15. Greening of Sociable Spaces and Buildings in Postindustrial High-Density Cities
Paul J. Armstrong and Paul H. Kapp
16. Daily Accessed Street Greenery in High-density Built Environments: A Comparative Study of Major Chinese Cities
Changyu Chen, Hongyu Wan and Yu Ye
17. Stratified Public and Green Spaces in High-density Urban and Hybrid Environments: A Review of Three Case Studies in Singapore
Swinal Samant, Primavera Desta and Tsubasa Nakanishi
18. How Tall and How Green Can a Vertical Mall Be? Case Studies of East Asian Cities
Cong Sun, Yingting Chen and Charlie Xue
19. Public Green Spaces in CBDs: Reconsidering the Central Business District of Istanbul
Onur Mengi, Deniz Deniz, Asli Ceylan Oner and Buğra Gökçe
20. Three Possibilities for Landscape Urbanism in Middle Eastern Cities
Anna Grichting and Ashraf M. Salama
21. High-Density Green Cities for Socio-Environmental Sustainability
Ricardo de Souza Rocha
22. Greenspace and Respiratory Health: A Systematic Review and Analytical Framework
Lan Wang, Yalan Zhang and Xiji Jiang
23. The Impacts of Urban Green Spaces on Mental and Physical Health in Dense Urban Settings of Chicago
Liwen Kang, Hao Huang and Nicole Ditchman
24. Improving Population Health through Green Space Design
Mitchell Kaminski and Victoria Anderson
25. The Healing Serendipity: The Therapeutic Value of Interval Biophilic Restoration in High-Density Cities
Alia Fadel
26. Greening Indoor Workplace in High-density Cities: A Quantitative Study of Indoor Workplace Greenery to Improve Health and Productivity Performance
Qinghua Lei, Chao Yuan and Stephen Siu Yu Lau
27. Living Tracks Chicago: The Bronzeville and Englewood Trails
María A. Villalobos H.
28. A Soundscape Approach: Transformation of Negative Spaces Near Urban Transportation Corridors for Active Use
Jiang Liu, Szymon Nogalski and Xinhao Wang
29. Promoting Health in Dense Cities through Vertical Greeneries: The Case of Plant- and Tree-Covered Tall Buildings
Kheir Al-Kodmany
30. Greenery Building: A Path to Sustainable Urban Living
Xianya Xu
31. Light, Air, And Views: The Underappreciated Health Benefits of Balconies
Paul Daniel Marriott and Dan Willis
32. Gardens, Greenbelts, Parks, and Permanent Furniture for the City: Recovering Ebenezer Howard and Frederick Law Olmsted for Future High-Density Cities
Phillip M. Crosby
33. Planning the Dense and Healthy City for All: Access to Green Spaces in Densification Projects
Jessica Verheij
Biography
Peng Du is an assistant professor and director of the Master of Urban Design – Future Cities Program at the College of Architecture and Built Environment in Thomas Jefferson University and a Research Fellow of Jefferson Institute of Smart and Healthy Cities. He also serves as the Asia Regional Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, geographic information systems (GIS), visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
Mir M. Ali is professor emeritus and former long-time chairman of the Structures Division in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive industrial experience that includes Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Sargent & Lundy in Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
