TY  - BOOK
AU  - Puay Yok Tan
AU  - Vincent Chua
AU  - Kuei-Hsien Liao
AU  - Yun Hye Hwang
AB  - Neighbourhood landscapes are the quintessential forms of urban landscapes in most cities worldwide. They are pervasive, and hence experienced by the large majority of urban dwellers in their everyday life. More than parks, nature reserves or nature areas which are visited as destinations, neighbourhood landscapes provide the most immediate, frequent and convenient form of nature experienced by urban dwellers on a daily basis. They are also valuable as social spaces to bring residents together, foster social ties, and strengthen communities. Despite their importance, surprisingly little has been written to guide the planning and design of neighbourhood landscapes. This book is written for a specific purpose, to illustrate how the design of neighbourhood landscapes helps to deliver more benefits for urban dwellers and, at the same time, protect ecosystems that facilitate human well-being. This is in turn important as the synergistic relationships between human well-being, quality of biophysical urban environment, and health of human–environment interactions fundamentally underpin urban sustainability. The authors emphasize the role neighbourhood landscapes play in forging connections between people and nature, people and people, and people and place. Most of all, the book highlights the role of focusing on people in this endeavour, as it is only when landscapes are appropriately designed, and when people recognize these benefits, that they become valued and protected as a community resource. This book is organized into two parts. Part 1 focuses on the conceptual foundations that underpin the neighbourhood landscape design guidelines being developed. In this section, the authors describe the key concepts relating functions of neighbourhood landscapes to the key urban development goals of sustainability, liveability and reliance; how they can be represented in a framework; and how a synthesis of current knowledge of cities as socio-ecological systems helps to identify principles that can guide the designing of neighbourhood landscapes. Part 2 is more application focused, and is centred on neighbourhood landscape design guidelines inspired by the concept of ecosystem services. The guidelines consist of design approaches, practical strategies, design targets and performance monitoring indicators for tracking the performance of neighbourhood landscapes. The book is written for readers in academia and design practice, and anyone who has a role in shaping neighbourhood landscapes for the benefit of urban dwellers.
DO  - 10.1142/10879
ID  - OAPEN ID: 26645
KW  - Urban Landscapes
KW  - Irrigation
KW  - Urban Areas
KW  - Neighbourhoods
KW  - Environmental Education
KW  - Aesthetic Values
KW  - Living Spaces
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Heat Mitigation
KW  - Noise Abatement
KW  - Landscape Design
KW  - Nature
KW  - Soil Quality Maintenance
KW  - Social Relations
KW  - Storm and Domestic Waste Water Treatment
KW  - Flood Hazard Mitigation
KW  - People
KW  - Neighbourhood Landscape
KW  - Water Cycling
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Nutrient Cycling
KW  - Landscape Development
KW  - Green Spaces
KW  - Landscape Services
KW  - Erosion Control
KW  - Recreational Spaces
KW  - Open Spaces
KW  - Sense of Place
KW  - Recreation
KW  - Typology
KW  - Parks
L1  - https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10879#t=toc
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54374
PB  - World Scientific Publishing Co.
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9789813236035
TI  - Nature, Place & People:Forging Connections through Neighbourhood Landscape Designnull
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