Urban Parks

Urban Green Spaces begins by reviewing the history of parks, gardens, sports fields, and playgrounds in Europe, Asia, and North America, focusing on their contemporary role according to scientists and city planners. It then covers urban parks physical characteristics, including spatial geography, and ecological issues such as air quality, soil pollution, and water movement.

Urban Green Spaces then turns toward urban park users' habits, preferences, and...
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Urban Green Spaces begins by reviewing the history of parks, gardens, sports fields, and playgrounds in Europe, Asia, and North America, focusing on their contemporary role according to scientists and city planners. It then covers urban parks physical characteristics, including spatial geography, and ecological issues such as air quality, soil pollution, and water movement.

Urban Green Spaces then turns toward urban park users' habits, preferences, and activities, focusing on how parks design and ecosystem services impact park user's demography, culture, and health. The book concludes with a discussion of urban park planning and design, including legislation and regulation examples from cities around the world.

Focused around the key current global concern of maintaining healthy cities during times of climate change, Urban Green Spaces is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners.

• Shows how global issues are handled at local settings
• Evidence based applied research that bridges the gap between urban green space researchers and designers
• Case studies of from cities around the globe that link academic research to planning and design practice
• Interdisciplinary approach integrates physical sciences with social science issue