TY - BOOK AU - Panagopoulos, Thomas AB - This volume examines the applicability of landscape urbanism theory in contemporary landscape architecture practice by bringing together ecology and architecture in the built environment. Using participatory planning of green infrastructure and application of nature-based solutions to address urban challenges, landscape urbanism seeks to reintroduce critical connections between natural and urban systems. In light of ongoing developments in landscape architecture, the goal is a paradigm shift towards a landscape that restores and rehabilitates urban ecosystems. Nine contributions examine a wide range of successful cases of designing livable and resilient cities in different geographical contexts, from the United States of America to Australia and Japan, and through several European cities in Italy, Portugal, Estonia, and Greece. While some chapters attempt to conceptualize the interconnections between cities and nature, others clearly have an empirical focus. Efforts such as the use of ornamental helophyte plants in bioretention ponds to reduce and treat stormwater runoff, the recovery of a poorly constructed urban waterway or participatory approaches for optimizing the location of green stormwater infrastructure and examining the environmental justice issue of equative availability and accessibility to public open spaces make these innovations explicit. Thus, this volume contributes to the sustainable cities goal of the United Nations. DO - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-370-2 ID - OAPEN ID: 42480 KW - public perception KW - urban sustainability KW - public open space KW - landscape urbanism KW - urban ecology KW - re-naturing cities KW - floating treatment wetland KW - viable city KW - deprived areas KW - urban planning KW - renaturing cities KW - Greece KW - postal questionnaire KW - pedestrian zones KW - street verges KW - landscape first KW - public green infrastructure (PGI) KW - resource rationalization KW - context-sensitive design KW - green infrastructure KW - environmental justice KW - river restoration KW - public amenity KW - well-being KW - sustainable cities KW - Japan KW - recreation KW - plant ecology KW - social equity KW - runoff KW - sustainable development KW - Soviet-era housing blocks KW - regenerative design KW - biophilic urbanism KW - livability KW - post-postmodernism KW - landscape history KW - nature-based solutions KW - vacant land KW - nature-based solution KW - built environment KW - green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) KW - urban nature (UN) KW - urban design KW - geographic information systems KW - landscape theory KW - urban geography KW - residents’ views KW - pollutant removal KW - liveability KW - visitor satisfaction survey KW - biophilic design KW - Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) KW - urban nature KW - spontaneous vegetation KW - Asia KW - green gentrification KW - site suitability modeling KW - landscape architecture KW - Roma minority KW - Philadelphia L1 - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1492 LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51367 PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute PY - 2019 SN - 9783039213702 SN - 9783039213696 TI - Landscape Urbanism and Green Infrastructurenull ER -