Biodiverse green infrastructure for the 21st century: from "green desert" of lawns to Biophilic cities

Abstract

Modern urban green infrastructures are following globalisation trends and contribute to homogenization at all levels of green areas from the master plan to the finest scale. We discuss the place and role of three principal urban living spaces, the “skeleton” of green infrastructures: lawns, green walls and green roofs. This “trio” of modern GI elements provide significant ecosystem services, it contributes to biodiversity and social values; and have environmental and economic impact. The main goal of our approach to sustainable GI is to introduce a new landscape architecture style – biodiversinesque – as an alternative to the existing global homogenised picturesque-gardenesque. innovative and alternative landscape design solutions (biodiverse lawns, pictorial meadows, walls and green roofs) and implement them on three major scales: city, intermediate neighborhood and the small biotope level.This new approach will combine the best achievements of

Published in

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism
2013, Volume: Volume 37, number: 1, pages: 1-9

SLU Authors

• Ignatieva, Maria

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Ahrné, Karin

  • SLU Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities


UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2013.786284

Permanent link to this page (URI)

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