Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods

Abstract

This book explores novel theories, strategies and methods for re-naturing cities. It enables readers to learn from best practice and advances the current theoretical and empirical understanding in the field. The book also offers valuable insights into how planners, urban designers and policymakers can apply this knowledge to their own cities and regions, exploring top-down, bottom-up and mixed mechanisms for the systemic re-naturing of planned and existing cities. The book offers both analysis of historical and contemporary cases in re-naturing strategies.