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Green roofs
Posted on: 30 May 2013
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The Summer 2013 issue of Living Architecture Monitor contains a number of articles on green roofs.
Living London: Green infrastructure explained
Posted on: 22 May 2013
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This is a guide for CPRE London members and local London groups about what green infrastructure is and why it is important for London. It includes case studies about promoting wellbeing, biodiversity, landscape management, and climate resilience. It has further links to key organisations, in-depth guides and funding opportunities for promoting and protecting London’s precious green spaces locally.
Parks and gardens in Berlin as community spaces
Posted on: 14 May 2013
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The first part of the article gives the institutional background with information on the German planning system, the position of green planning in it as well as the strategic green planning for Berlin today. Our argument is that, although Berlin institutions have proved to be very flexible in adapting themselves to social change, there is still a highly sophisticated and elaborate legal framework that provides a solid regulatory-normative instrument, inside which urban gardens exist and develop. The second part of the article is a closer, though still superficial, look at five examples of gardens and parks. Using a similar analytical tool for each case (short description, aims, functions, conflicts, institutional interaction) we hope to show similarities and differences that pay some tribute to the vast variety of such spaces. The last part of the article is an attempt to conceptualize the different uses and functions of parks and gardens in Berlin.
Green infrastructure: Enhancing Europe’s natural capital
Posted on: 10 May 2013
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The European Commission has adopted a new strategy for encouraging the use of green infrastructure, and for ensuring that the enhancement of natural processes becomes a systematic part of spatial planning. A technical information paper is also available.
How to push the implementation of the European Green Belt by landscape policy instruments? Vienna, 19-20 February 2013
Posted on: 1 May 2013
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This is the 2nd scientific conference of the Central Europe-project GreenNet: Promoting the ecological network in the European Green Belt. Presentations and reports are available online.
London 2012 legacy: Natural environment
Posted on: 25 March 2013
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Natural England’s work with the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and their partners has been described in four green infrastructure case studies and two micro reports. These summarise how we worked together to secure a natural environment legacy.
Green infrastructure: An integrated approach to land use
Posted on: 11 March 2013
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The Landscape Institute has published six recommendations for how to deliver the next generation of green infrastructure (GI) in a new GI position statement. Despite a groundswell of support in recent years, including increasing policy support in the government’s National Planning Policy Framework and Natural Environment White Paper, the Landscape Institute is calling for this growing interest to be matched with funding and a new approach to the landscape that enables GI to flourish.
Preparing Borough Tree and Woodland Strategies
Posted on: 28 February 2013
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This Supplementary Planning Guidance is a joint publication between the Greater London Authority and the Forestry Commission. It sets out an approach to trees and woodland that: covers the audit, protection and management of trees and woodland in line with Policy 7.21 of the London Plan; highlights the asset value of trees and woodland, both in financial terms and the broad range of economic and environmental benefits they provide; considers all the trees in a borough as a single unified resource, an ‘urban forest’; extends the concept of an ‘urban forest’ across boundaries so that the cumulative benefits of trees to Londoners can be enhanced; and takes a step by step approach to the management of trees and woodland. Two case studies, showing the approach taken by one inner and one outer London Borough, are attached as these may be helpful to other boroughs.
New London Landscape
Posted on: 28 February 2013
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New London Landscape is a showcase of green infrastructure ideas for the capital. It brings together the winning and shortlisted design ideas from the 2012 ‘A High Line for London’ competition, plus 80 previously unseen projects. Taken together, this showcase offers a timely critique of the capital’s existing green infrastructure and suggests a 100 possible futures.
The VALUE (Valuing Attractive Landscapes in the Urban Economy) Project: Final report
Posted on: 7 February 2013
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The final report of the VALUE project is now available, indicating that economic value is associated with urban greening and associated improvements in economic quality. Based on a study of 10 investment sites across North West Europe, it shows that targeting innovative green infrastructure investments ensures a high social, ecological and economic impact.
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