Restoration of urban streams to create blue–green infrastructure

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Jenny Mant ◽  
Colin Thorne ◽  
Josh Burch ◽  
Marc Naura
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Streams

scholarly journals The Value and Services of Urban Stream Polygnotou, Thessaloniki

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 576
Author(s):  
Eleni A. Athanasiadou ◽  
Maria Tratsela ◽  
Eleni Gkrimpa
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Urban Streams ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Riparian Ecosystems ◽  
Runoff Water ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Urban Stream Syndrome ◽  
Mental Map

Grey, blue and green infrastructure supports socio-ecological processes the city undergoes. Yet, procedures of constructing anthropogenic habitats often undermine the value of natural landscape elements such as urban streams. Thessaloniki’s backbone comprises of urban streams that run from the suburban forest of ‘Seih-Sou’ to the Thermaikos Gulf acting as corridors of the natural urban matrix. Policies of the past have dealt with urban streams through extensive engineering drainage methods, eliminating the risk of flooding, yet resulting in rapid stormwater runoff, water quality problems, disturbed riparian ecosystems, leading to the urban stream syndrome. Furthermore, they have failed to address urban streams as an inseparable part of the landscape and thus to incorporate them in people’s mental map and everyday activities. The paper discusses the case of ‘Polygnotou stream’ which forms the beginning of the large scale engineered peripheral moat of Thessaloniki, constructed in the 60’s, and playing the role of the water recipient for six urban streams in total. It falls unknown to the majority of people living in the area, yet its services as an ecosystem ought to be acknowledged, helping inform decision makers of its socio-ecologic, perceptual and economic value. In addition, Polygnotou stream, adjacent streams and the peripheral moat overall, could be considered as a touristic product of great importance.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE POTENTIALS OF SMALL URBAN STREAMS IN CREATING BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CITY OF NIŠ, SERBIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Dinić Branković ◽  
Milica Igić ◽  
Petar Mitković ◽  
Jelena Đekić ◽  
Ivana Bogdanović Protić
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Urban Streams ◽  
The City

“Blue-Green Infrastructure” (BGI) is a simple and cost-effective natural resource that enhances theappeal, resilience and sustainability of urban areas. Small urban streams are an important BGIcomponent that is often underused, especially regarding stormwater management. The aim of thisresearch is to explore small urban streams and their integration into BGI in the urban area of Niš,and to point out the benefits that their restoration would bring in functional, social and environmentalterms. Results of this study show that Niš urban area has significant “Blue” natural capital in smallstreams, and that standing planning documents support the creation of BGI to some extent. Theseare good grounds for the implementation of BGI in urban planning practice.

scholarly journals Revitalizing small urban streams as an instrument of urban planning in creating resilient cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Milena Dinic-Brankovic ◽  
Milica Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Urban Streams ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Small Streams

Small urban streams are an important element of blue-green infrastructure that is often underused, especially regarding storm water management. In addition, small streams in dense urban areas often seem to be polluted and devastated, or even buried underground. This paper discusses the problems and challenges that occur in urban areas regarding small streams and creeks, and explores how their revitalization can help in shaping more resilient communities. The study explores two cities, Graz and Oslo, and their best practice examples in revitalizing urban watercourses. As a valuable natural ?blue? capital, small streams can reduce the city?s risk of flooding from intense rainfall and strengthen the ecosystem. At the same time, small urban streams are cost effective, proactive and attractive elements of urban landscape. Research identifies the benefits that the process of revitalization of small urban streams brought about to the selected case studies regarding the environment, public health, social interactions, land use and adaptation to climate change. Furthermore, the research establishes urban planning guidelines for revitalization of watercourses that could help in setting up policy framework for adapting inherited urban settings to climate change.

Smart Green Infrastructure in Tiger Range Countries

10.1596/27751 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. Quintero ◽  
Roberto Roca ◽  
Alexis Morgan ◽  
Aradhna Mathur ◽  
Xiaoxin Shi
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure

Industrial zones is the place where the green city originates

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1857-1880
Author(s):  
N.N. Krupina
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Fiscal Incentives ◽  
Industrial Zones

Subject. The article updates the scientific view of the environmental protection greening and the special land use regime as a special city planning means of passive sanitary protection of people from the adverse aerial and technological impact and the recovery of the environment we live in. Objectives. I identify the specifics of designing and efficient operation of environmental protection greening as an inseparable part of the urban ecosystem. The article justifies the technique for strategic positioning of respective infrastructure projects in order to ensure the protective effect. Methods. The study relies upon general methods of analysis, systematization of existing viewpoints and published findings, graphic and logic analysis, matrix-based tools to choose an administrative strategy. Results. I analyzed the air-holding capacity of economic activity in regions and the outcome of air quality monitoring as a risk factor for public health. The article pinpoints operational difficulties in the environmental protection greening facilities and strategic approaches to addressing the issues in order to improve the environmental security of industrial zones. I determine new aspects of public relations and groups of criteria to assess the effectiveness of green infrastructure projects. The article provides the rationale for fiscal incentives for investors and public-private partnership of stakeholders. Conclusions and Relevance. Considering national projects, such as Ecology, Demography, Convenient Urban Environment, I emphasize the relevance of recovering and rehabilitating obsolete environmental protection greening facilities situated in industrial zones of industrially developed cities. Green projects should indeed comply with a set of progressive results of fundamental studies carried in various scientific areas. There should be fiscal incentives in terms of taxes and depreciation on special assets as the basis for the private-municipal partnership in green assets management in order to enhance the environmental security of industrial zones.

Urban Greening and Human-Wildlife Relations in Philadelphia: From Animal Control to Multispecies Coexistence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hunold
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
Urban Wildlife ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Animal Control

City-scale urban greening is expanding wildlife habitat in previously less hospitable urban areas. Does this transformation also prompt a reckoning with the longstanding idea that cities are places intended to satisfy primarily human needs? I pose this question in the context of one of North America's most ambitious green infrastructure programmes to manage urban runoff: Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters. Given that the city's green infrastructure plans have little to say about wildlife, I investigate how wild animals fit into urban greening professionals' conceptions of the urban. I argue that practitioners relate to urban wildlife via three distinctive frames: 1) animal control, 2) public health and 3) biodiversity, and explore the implications of each for peaceful human-wildlife coexistence in 'greened' cities.

Hydromorphological Structure Assessment of Urban Streams after Close-to-Nature Stream Restoration Using LAWA

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gye-Woon Choi ◽  
Hyea-Ju Kim ◽  
Jong-Sik Park ◽  
Man-Shin Han
Keyword(s):  
Stream Restoration ◽  
Urban Streams ◽  
Structure Assessment

Blueprint Columbus Green Infrastructure Workforce Development Training Program: Working Together, Working in Neighborhoods

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (13) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625
Author(s):  
Cynthia Jacobsen ◽  
Keena Smith ◽  
Debra Knapke ◽  
Ramona Swayne ◽  
John Hazlett
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Working Together
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