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Small-Scale Urban Greening

Creating Places of Health, Creativity, and Ecological Sustainability
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Small-Scale Urban Greening explores how small-scale greening projects transform urban landscapes by enhancing human experiences and ecological health. Angela Loder examines power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics to reveal how urban nature can foster equitable and thriving communities. The book utilises interdisciplinary research and case studies to show the impact of these initiatives on residents' sense of place, health, creativity, and concentration, emphasising the importance of wildness and emotion in our connection to urban nature.
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This book is ideal for designers, academics, policy makers, and anyone interested in urban development, environmental design, and community wellbeing.

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This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban nature can help us create places that nurture ecological and human health and promote successful and equitable urban communities.

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Small-Scale Urban Greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolism, and aesthetics in our understanding of the human relationship to urban nature can help us create places that nurture ecological and human health and promote successful and equitable urban communities.

Using an interdisciplinary approach to current research debates and new comparative case studies on community perceptions of these urban greening projects and policies, this book explores how small-scale urban greening projects can impact our sense of place, health, creativity, and concentration while also being part of a successful urban greening program.

Arguing that wildness, emotion, and sense of place are key components of our humanโ€“nature relationship, this book will be of interest to designers, academics, and policy makers.

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Small-Scale Urban Greening is praised for its thorough research and detailed policy discussions. Experts commend it for deepening understanding of green infrastructure and the transformation of neglected urban spaces into vital green areas that promote health, equity, and community. Angela Loder's work is recognised for connecting ecological interventions with human and social well-being in cities.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367900830

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 7 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, color; 12 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 660g

Pages: 270

About the Author

Angela Loder is Vice President, Research, for the International WELL Building Institute. In this role she is responsible for identifying, directing, and managing evidenced-based research that supports the WELL Building Standard. She has been a core member of the Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiBR) with the National Institutes of Health since 2009. She is a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a board member of the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Denver, and part of the first cohort of WELL Faculty and a WELL AP. She holds a collaborative PhD in Health and Urban Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto.

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