Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-first Century

by Amati,Marco; Amati,Marco

• ISBN13: 9780754649595
• ISBN10: 0754649598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Green belt is among one of the oldest and most renowned policies for controlling sprawl. Since its inception around London in the 1930s, the green belt has been employed to contain the urban growth of a variety of cities around the world. During the last decade however, planners have been questioning the usefulness of this policy, attempting green belt reforms and replacing them with alternatives such as green wedges and eco-belts. And yet, no research has attempted to gather these experiences together to guide the reform process and consider whether a green belt is a useful policy for the Twentyfirst Century.By bringing together and comparing the experiences of green belt reform across Europe, North America, SE Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book adds to the understanding of how a green belt can be effected and what alternatives exist to it. A team of leading researchers and practitioners examine how contemporary debates, such as sustainability, intersect with the green belt and how green belts are one of the most widely employed and understood planning policies for controlling urban growth globally. It concludes by assessing the usefulness of green belts and their alternatives as tools for planners in this new century

Table of Contents

Preface

Green belts: a 20th-century planning experiment

The Coalition of the Un-willing

Landowners and the Green Belt

The abandonment of Tokyo's green belt and the search for a new discourse of preservation in Tokyo's suburbs

Issues with green belt reform in the Seoul metropolitan area

Falling Out of Favour

Deregulation and Green Belts

Protecting Melbourne's green wedges - fate of a public policy

The green belt that wasn't: the case of New Zealand from 1910 to the 1990s

Re-Forming Greenery

From Green Belts to Green Nets

The Adelaide parklands and the endurance of the green belt idea in South Australia

Ottawa's greenbelt evolves from urban separator to key ecological planning component

Instruments to preserve open space and resource lands in the Seattle, Washington Metropolitan Region - a US alternative to green belts

Works in Progress

Patching Together a Flexible Green Belt

The Vienna green belt: from localised protection to a regional concept

From green belts to regional parks: history and challenges of suburban landscape planning in Berlin

Controlling urban expansion in Italy with green belts

The Paris-Ile-de-France ceinture verte

Index

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