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Reading Urban Green Morphology to Enhance Urban Resilience: A Case Study of Six Southern European Cities
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Geography. Navarino Environmental Observatory, Greece; Coimbra Agrarian Technical School, Portugal.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3709-4103
Number of Authors: 32021 (English)In: Sustainability, E-ISSN 2071-1050, Vol. 13, no 16, article id 9163Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A loss of natural capital within cities and their surrounding areas has been noticed over the last decades. Increasing development associated with higher sealing rates has caused a general loss of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) within the urban environment, whereas urban sprawl and the improvement of road networks have deeply fragmented the surrounding landscape and jeopardized ecosystems connectivity. UGS are an essential component of the urban system, and their loss has a greater impact on, e.g., ecological and hydrological processes, threatening human well-being. Different types and spatial configurations of UGS may affect their own ability to provide ecosystem services, such as biodiversity support and water regulation. Nevertheless, the study of UGS spatial patterns is a research branch poorly addressed. Moreover, UGS analyses are mainly focused on public and vast green spaces, but seldom on informal, private, and interstitial ones, returning a myopic representation of urban green areas. Therefore, this study investigates the UGS spatial patterns within six Southern European cities, using the urban morphology analysis to assess all urban vegetated lands. Results revealed three main Urban Green Spatial Patterns (UGSPs): Fragmented, Compact, and Linear Distributions. UGSPs taxonomy represents a novelty in the urban morphology field and may have important implications for the ability to provide ecosystem services and, thus, human well-being.

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2021. Vol. 13, no 16, article id 9163
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Urban Green Spaces (UGS), Urban Green Spatial Patterns (UGSPs), Green Infrastructure (GI), Informal Urban Greenspace (IGS), urban morphological analysis, sustainable urban development, Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-197501DOI: 10.3390/su13169163ISI: 000689754800001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-197501DiVA, id: diva2:1600693
Available from: 2021-10-05 Created: 2021-10-05 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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