Planning small for winning big: Small urban green space distribution patterns in an expanding city |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania;2. Department of Regional Geography and Environment, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Romania;1. Faculty of Design and Environment, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, 133 Shing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, China;2. Landscape Division, Highways Department, Spectrum Tower, 53 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;3. Greening, Landscape and Tree Management Section, Development Bureau, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong, China;1. Geography Department, Landscape Ecology Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany;2. Croatian Forest Research Institute, Division for International Scientific Cooperation in Southeast Europe, Cvjetno naselje 41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia;3. UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany;4. UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany;1. School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China;2. Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Eco-Environmental Change and Management Observation and Research Station, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai 200240, China;3. Shanghai Urban Forest Ecosystem Research Station, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 800 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China;4. Key Laboratory for Urban Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 800 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, China;1. School of Public Policy and Government, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil;2. University of Brasilia, School of Public Health, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil;3. University of Brasilia, Geoscience Institute, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil;4. University of Brasilia, Planaltina, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil;5. University of Brasilia, Ceilândia, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil;1. CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;2. Shenyang Arboretum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;3. Tanghekou Middle School, Huairou District, Beijing 101400, China;1. Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, 901 Walnut St., 10th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, USA;2. Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | While major urban areas are expanding, becoming more crowded, vegetated lands areshrinking. Built-up densification limits the planning of large urban green spaces,depriving urban dwellers of the benefits provided by such structures. In this context,small public urban green spaces (SPUGS) become of high value for urban landscapes,and their distribution throughout the city should aim to compensate the lack of largergreen areas. The driving forces of SPUGS distribution may be linked to the urbanfunctions they are usually paired with.The current study aimed to determine which are the urban functions that benefit ofhigher amounts of SPUGS in their proximities and to map the distribution and densityof SPUGS within Bucharest, helping us expose the green deprived communities.Results revealed that multi-dwelling residential areas are the ones with higher share ofSPUGS within walking distance. Nevertheless, analysis on SPUGS deprivation withinthe city showed that communist planned residential neighbourhoods are greener thanthe ones developed in the past three decades. Healthcare and commercial functionswithin the city recorded smaller shares of SPUGS in their proximity, highlighting thatvulnerable groups (such as ill people) are exposed to less vegetation, and that publicplanning documents are not encouraging developers to allocate more land for greenfeature development.These results are relevant for projecting the quality of outdoor environmentsthroughout Romania’s capital and for assessing potential future managementchallenges. The outcomes of this research provide local policy makers and plannerswith the vulnerable areas in which immediate action for expanding the greeninfrastructures should take place. At the same time, the methodological approachdescribed in the study proved to be efficient in assessing the distribution of SPUGSthroughout the city and the determinants of this distribution. It can be easily replicatedin other cities by scholars and planners. |
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| Keywords: | Small public urban green spaces Urban functions GIS Remote sensing Postsocialism Romania |
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