Urban green belts in the twenty-first century/ edited by Marco Amati

Contributor(s):

Amati, Marco [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Ashgate 2008 HampshireDescription: xviii,: 248pISBN:

9780754649595

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.1216 URB

Contents:

Green belts: a twentieth-century planning experiment / Marco Amati -- The abandonment of Tokyo's green belt and the search for a new discourse of preservation in Tokyo's suburbs / Takashi Watanabe [and others] -- Issues with green belt reform in the Seoul metropolitan area / Jekook Kim and Tae-Kyung Kim -- Protecting Melbourne's green wedges -- fate of a public policy / Michael Buxton and Robin Goodman -- The green belt that wasn't: the case of New Zealand from 1910 to the 1990s / Caroline Miller and Marco Amati -- The Adelaide parklands and the endurance of the green belt idea in South Australia / Christine Garnaut -- Ottawa's greenbelt evolves from urban separator to key ecological planning component / David Gordon and Richard Scott -- Instruments to preserve open space and resource lands in the Seattle, Washington metropolitan region -- a US alternative to green belts / Alon Bassok -- The Vienna green belt: from localised protection to a regional concept / Meinhard Breiling and Gisa Ruland -- From green belts to regional parks: history and challenges of suburban landscape planning in Berlin / Manfred Kuhn & Ludger Gailing -- Controlling urban expansion in Italy with green belts / Giulio Senes [and others] -- The Paris-Ile-de-France ceinture verte / Nicolas Laruelle and Corinne Legenne.

Summary: The green belt is among one of the oldest and most renowned policies for controlling sprawl. This work examines how contemporary debates, such as sustainability, intersect with the green belt and how green belts are one of the most widely employed and understood planning policies for controlling urban growth globally.

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Green belts: a twentieth-century planning experiment / Marco Amati --
The abandonment of Tokyo's green belt and the search for a new discourse of preservation in Tokyo's suburbs / Takashi Watanabe [and others] --
Issues with green belt reform in the Seoul metropolitan area / Jekook Kim and Tae-Kyung Kim --
Protecting Melbourne's green wedges --
fate of a public policy / Michael Buxton and Robin Goodman --
The green belt that wasn't: the case of New Zealand from 1910 to the 1990s / Caroline Miller and Marco Amati --
The Adelaide parklands and the endurance of the green belt idea in South Australia / Christine Garnaut --
Ottawa's greenbelt evolves from urban separator to key ecological planning component / David Gordon and Richard Scott --
Instruments to preserve open space and resource lands in the Seattle, Washington metropolitan region --
a US alternative to green belts / Alon Bassok --
The Vienna green belt: from localised protection to a regional concept / Meinhard Breiling and Gisa Ruland --
From green belts to regional parks: history and challenges of suburban landscape planning in Berlin / Manfred Kuhn & Ludger Gailing --
Controlling urban expansion in Italy with green belts / Giulio Senes [and others] --
The Paris-Ile-de-France ceinture verte / Nicolas Laruelle and Corinne Legenne.

The green belt is among one of the oldest and most renowned policies for controlling sprawl. This work examines how contemporary debates, such as sustainability, intersect with the green belt and how green belts are one of the most widely employed and understood planning policies for controlling urban growth globally.

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