Concrete Versus Green Corridors in Road Planning. Gdansk Case

2019

The renewal of historic gardens, landscapes and sites has become more common in Eastern and Central European region. The Department of Garden Art and Garden Techniques of the Szent István University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design has been dealing with this since 1963, with landscape renewal on landscape, garden and settlement scale, based on scientific research. The more than 50-year experience has already proved the advantages of such “design by research” approach in the garden and landscape renewal processes, with Landscape Architecture being a discipline which has developed from a very practical basis in park and garden design. (Brink, 2017) The purpose of this paper is to show the most significant conclusions of our historic garden research related to the castle and manor house gardens from Carpathian Basin, focusing on the importance of visual connections and links designed initially on sites. Using case studies, the paper intends to explore how good landsc...

Manzar the scientific journal of landscape, 2016

| In the context of rapid global changes in the urban environments and sustainability and resilience approaches, many aspects of cities including infrastructure, i.e. urban highways, is experiencing a paradigm shift where programming for multiple-use and the integration of both human and natural needs is a primary consideration. In the ecological urbanism approach to infrastructure planning and design, urban infrastructure, including transportation routes, no longer belongs in the exclusive field of engineers, transportation planners and managers and role of landscape architecture and landscape ecology is incremental in this process. The potential of infrastructure systems for performing the additional function of shaping architectural, ecological, and urban form has been largely unrealized. Urban transportation corridors as an important part of built urban ecosystems can be enhanced by integration with ecological features in terms of their contribution to both human experiences of the urban environments and green infrastructure in the city. The significant roles of landscape architecture, landscape ecology and landscape urbanism in the urban transportation corridors planning and design is the core of this paper to find out how urban infrastructural projects can be built more sustainably and become multifunctional and bring ecological services to the city. This research uses a case study for investigation; EastLink, a large scale infrastructural transportation project in Melbourne, Australia. This project is the largest road ever constructed in state of Victoria and Australia's largest urban road project. It incorporates an extensive shared use path network for cyclists and pedestrians and has established constructed wetlands, water retention basins and bioretention strips along its route. The environmental experience of drivers, cyclist, pedestrians and the people living in the nearby environments has been considered during the planning and design and landscape architects and designers were actively involved in the process. The research has established accessibility, connectivity, multiple use, multi scale functions, and maintainability as main criteria for integrating human and natural realms in contemporary infrastructure design for the cities and reshaping future urban landscapes.

One of the prevalent malfunctions of the contemporary urban landscape pertains to the disruption of the natural environment’s procedures and consequently, the breach of the equilibrium in the composite urban ecosystem. This paper deals with the most common forms of abuse and degradation of the natural elements (vegetation, ground, water and air) within the contemporary urban environment, examining the cause for this abuse in dependence with the conventions of the modern way of living. Furthermore, the impact on the quality of urban spaces and the living within is mentioned. The urgent need for adopting an attitude towards sustainability is underlined by making a brief reference to its multiple advantages - ecological, social, cultural and economic. The main part of the study focuses on proposals made in terms of a sustainable development for the prospective urban landscape. Emphasis is laid, amongst others, on the need for redefining the relation between the natural systems and the urbanization processes; for new design strategies concerning both the public open spaces and the green areas (urban and suburban) by taking into consideration all the natural environment parameters; for collaboration between all the scientific fields involved; and the creation of a network of green areas aiming at the balanced distribution of open spaces into the urban web. Additionally, there are mentioned the current tendencies on the issue of upgrading and enhancing the natural environment of the urban landscape, as these are outlined by the announcements of international competitions, European Programs and Actions, Academic Research Programs etc. Key words: urbanism, ecology, integration, landscape.

Green infrastructure (GI) has been an object of different theoretical-practical approaches concerning its application as a tool to build a sustainable and resilient land use plan. The key would be to guarantee the cities' functions and services to work with nature. The challenge requests a clear association between conceptual terms and the design practices that have been developed in recent years, attending urban functions and protecting ecosystem services. The present work contributes to the debate, establishing the relationship between principles, urban scales, urban functions and configurable components of green infrastructure with the potential to guarantee the ecosystem service and to respond to the demands of the city's functioning. The research approach is related to the ecosystem service associated with the water cycle in cities. The method is based on the organization of conceptual review bases and some research results on green infrastructure, landscape architecture and urbanism, to build a framework of analysis that can be validated in an empirical study that will subsidize plans of urban spatial planning. As a result, we present the primitive analytical and methodological steps for the identification of aspects raised for the intervention of a plan of urban land occupation based on nature.

How to push the implementation of the European Green Belt by landscape policy instruments?, 2014

My Livable City 21: Landscape & Infrastructure, 2019

From the Mandarin Route to colonial boulevards and canals to Soviet-style networks to contemporary grids for city extensions and industrial zones, there has been a conscious relation of movement, landscape and urbanism. Construction of infrastructure has always been strongly motivated by development expectations. With that comes an alignment of infrastructure with the most innovative and performant technical means available. Simultaneously, there has also been a constant appropriation of infrastructural spaces for a variety of unintended uses. Vietnamese sidewalks are proverbial universes of activities. As the mobility revolution beckons, Vietnam has the opportunity to leapfrog development and largely skip the petrol-age: it can thrive with electric bikes and motorbikes, reinvigoration of its water transport network, various forms of public transportation and the sharing economy. At the same time, as one of the most severely affected countries by climate change, new street profiles can fundamentally redefine nature and culture relationships. As such, the assignment for new infrastructures is always multiple, generating a world of possible uses and meanings, while accommodating new means of transportation. In the coming post-petrol age, this creation of civics by technics necessarily has to incorporate much more sensitive relations with nature.

Carroll Elizabeth, cited Archana 2010 Rethinking greenways design in context of sustainable development:towards landscape synergism Proceedings of Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenways Planning : 347-364, under “References” in Carroll, “Civilizing ecological landscape through assimilation of urban parks and vacancy: a case study Baltimore, Md” in Fabos,J.G., Lindhult, M., Ryan, R., Jacknin,M.(ed). Proceedings of 2013 Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Pathways to Sustainability, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013 April 12-13, pp 527-535, pg 218

Ecology, Environment and Conservation

Roads are indispensable for the socioeconomic development of any region. Roads way projects face various issues such as Land, Environment, Technology and Bio diversity among others. Environment is the surroundings of our living thing. It consists of living things and non-living things. It also includes the Sun and weather of the place you live in, as we depend on our environment for all our needs as it provides us with food, water, air, materials to construct houses and all the useful things we use in our daily life. Humans have found many new ways to keep themselves comfortable, from a wide range of things like good houses to live in, good roads, cars and buses to travel and many more things for the increasing population. However in making our lives comfortable we have damaged our environment and biodiversity in many ways. We have affected forest to build cities and forms, and keep cutting down trees to make houses and roads, thereby destroying animal habitats. The study is quite a comprehensive with a variety of examples and cases, and focused primarily on some key environmental and biodiversity factors associated with development of roadways, various laws and mitigation measures in order to safeguard the environment in the process of inevitable man made development.

Maintaining the landscape and road construction without destroying it is a novelty in Albania, because until today construction of the roads and housing also does not take into account the landscape and the impact on it. A great importance has the constructions of the roads because during the constructions we need to protect the identity of the zone, without destroying the landscape. Street and landscape are very closely related to each other by having a huge impact on human feelings. Technical base in road construction while maintaining the landscape is an essential element. The main focus will be tracking parameters and European road planning and construction criteria road above the landscape, where most will stick to the European Convention for the scenery, being able to bring an interesting topic for road infrastructure and landscape. Street can be considered as a landscape fragmentation, so it is necessary that it cannot create fragmentation but way be considered as part of the landscape. At the same time using different techniques can provide and road construction on unstable terrain making can establish the specific way a connection between people and landscape. We will see a case study which comes as a good example for the integrity of the road in the landscape. .

Acta Horticulturae et Regiotecturae

Analysis of urban green infrastructure is used to identify the concepts of its planning, implementation, and management at the level of the whole city as well as its individual parts. Green infrastructure, as a planned network of natural and semi-natural elements in cities, delivers a wide range of ecosystem services and improves urban environmental conditions. Planning the network of green infrastructure becomes a standard part of urban and spatial planning. Implementation strategies of green infrastructure in urban environment include applications of new specific elements and nature-based solutions. Green infrastructure research covers a wide range of topics. Our research focuses on the selected aspects of spatial analysis of green infrastructure in the city of Warsaw: distribution of main public green areas at the urban scale – forests and parks in the urban fabric, the forms of their protection, the use of linear elements of green infrastructure along communication routes, and t...