Wild Urban Woodlands

by Kowarik, ingo; Korner, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9783540239123
• ISBN10: 354023912X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Urban landscapes formerly shaped by heavy industry are evolving all over the world. The associated processes enhance the evolution of a new kind of wilderness. In regions such as the German Ruhrgebiet, vast post-industrial areas have already been re-colonised naturally by forests. These new types of urban woodlands are often overlooked by ecologists, foresters and planners. The book provides a first concise overview of ecological features and potential social functions of this new kind of urban wilderness. The general chapters provide introductions and conceptual approaches from the perspectives of ecology, environmental sociology, forestry, nature conservation and landscape architecture. They are illustrated by a broad array of case studies from England, Germany and Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface
Ingo Kowarik, Stefan Körner	V
Contents	IX
List of Contributors	XI
Wild woodlands as a new component of urban forests
Wild urban woodlands: Towards a conceptual framework
Ingo Kowarik	1	(32)
New Perspectives for Urban Forests: Introducing the Wild Woodland
Cecil C. Konijnendijk	33	(14)
Attitudes towards wild woodlands
Attitudes towards Wilderness and Public Demands on Wilderness Areas
Nicole Bauer	47	(20)
Surrogate Nature or Wilderness? Social Perceptions and Notions of Nature in an Urban Context
Dieter Rink	67	(14)
Nature for People: The Importance of Green Spaces to Communities in the East Midlands of England
Simon Bell	81	(14)
Living in the Urban Wildwoods: A Case Study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK
Anna Jorgensen, James Hitchmough, Nigel Dunnett	95	(22)
Use and Perception of Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes in the Ruhr
Andreas Keil	117	(14)
People Working for Nature in the Urban Forest
Clive Davies	131	(12)
Ecological studies
Nature Returns to Abandoned Industrial Land: Monitoring Succession in Urban-Industrial Woodlands in the German Ruhr
Joachim Weiss, Wolfgang Burghardt, Peter Gausmann, Rita Haag, Henning Haeupler, Michael Hamann, Bertram Leder, Annette Schulte, Ingrid Stempelmann	143	(20)
Spontaneous Development of Peri-Urban Woodlands in Lignite Mining Areas of Eastern Germany
Sabine Tischew, Antje Lorenz	163	(18)
Ecological Networks for Bird Species in the Wintering Season Based on Urban Woodlands
Tomohiro Ichinose	181	(12)
Conceptual approaches and projects
Nature Conservation, Forestry, Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation: Perspectives for a Conceptual Alliance
Stefan Körner	193	(28)
Approaches for Developing Urban Forests from the Cultural Context of Landscapes in Japan
Ryohei Ono	221	(10)
Strategies between Intervening and Leaving Room
Lucia Grosse-Bächle	231	(16)
"New Wilderness" as an Element of the Peri-Urban Landscape
Sigurd Karl Henne	247	(16)
Forests for Shrinking Cities? The Project "Industrial Forests of the Ruhr"
Jörg Dettmar	263	(14)
Post-Industrial Nature in the Coal Mine of Gottelborn, Germany: The Integration of Ruderal Vegetation in the Conversion of a Brownfield
Justina Drexler	277	(10)
Natur-Park Südgelande: Linking Conservation and Recreation in an Abandoned Rail Yard in Berlin
Ingo Kowarik, Andreas Langer	287