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Julián Briz Manfred Köhler Isabel de Felipe MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN The book is a fruitful collaboration between institutions, organizations, enterprises and expertise’s in green urban infrastructures under the common idea that Humanity needs a sustainable development, where urban areas has to look for INFRASTRUCTURE ecosystemic services. Solutions to many problems may resolved under the nature experience which for thousand years have Editors: Julián Briz, Manfred Köhler, Isabel de Felipe been adapted to the environment. We present the experience of specialist in a broad range of disciplines, which deal with topics as mimicry, energy saving, Health landscape or urban planning. Food Environment INFRASTRUCTURE Biodiversity Along 352 pages the publications includes 17 chapters with 30 authors from 17 countries. There is a special section, which describes international and national organization from 30 Recreation countries. Photography color, tables and graphics facilitate the Biomimetisme SDG lecture and understanding of the topic green urban infrastructure. Socioeconomics Energy Landscape Climate change URBAN GREEN MULTIFUNCTIONAL 2019 MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Editors: Julián Briz, Manfred Köhler, Isabel de Felipe Food Health Biodiversity Environment Recreation Biomimetisme SDG Socioeconomics Energy Landscape Climate change Title: Multifunctional Urban Green Infrastructure Edition: © Julián Briz, Manfred Köhler, Isabel de Felipe Design: Editorial Agrícola Española S.A. Daniel Fernández-Caro Chico Editorial Agrícola Española S.A. ISBN: 978-84-92928-96-5 ISBN (Digital): 978-84-17884-00-0 Depósito Legal: M-11856-2019 Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de sus titulares, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO ( Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos, www.cedro.org) si necesita fotocopiar, escanear o hacer copias digitales de algún fragmento de esta obra. MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 5 INDEX PREFACE ............................................................................................................................. 9 FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................ 11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 13 SPONSORS .........................................................................14 PART I FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES ................................................ 20 CHAPTER 1 ........................................................................................................................23 SMART URBAN ENVIRONMENT: A CHALLENGE IN A CLIMATE CHANGE FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES Julián Briz, Isabel de Felipe CHAPTER 2 ........................................................................................................................37 LIVING IN HARMONY WITH NATURE Hartmut Wurster CHAPTER 3 ........................................................................................................................43 MULTI-TIERED LANDSCAPES Maria Auböck, Janós Kárász, Franziska Leeb CHAPTER 4 ........................................................................................................................ 61 BIOMIMETIC LANDSCAPE THROUGH ECOSYSTEMS, MICROORGANISMS AND THERMODINAMIC PARAMETERS Cristina Jorge Camacho CHAPTER 5 ........................................................................................................................79 BIOMIMICRY: AN INSPIRED WAY TO REGENERATIVE DESIGN IN CITIES BASED ON NATURE Manuel Quirós CHAPTER 6 ........................................................................................................................93 LIVING WALL SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES Valentina Oquendo-Di Cosola, Francesca Olivieri 6 INDEX CHAPTER 7 ....................................................................................................................... 113 CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ECOSYSTEMS. CLOSING THE NUTRIENT CYCLES IN URBAN FOOD PRODUCTION Radu M. Giurgiu, Rares C. Nistor, Alexander van Tuyll, Seppe Salari, Zjef van Acker, Manfred Köhler, Dan C. Vodnar CHAPTER 8 ...................................................................................................................... 135 VERTICAL ECOSYSTEMS: THE VALUE OF FIELDWORK Ignacio Solano CHAPTER 9 ...................................................................................................................... 149 LESSONS LEARNED IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS LIVING WALLS, BOTH INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR Andreas Schmidt, Yaël Ehrenberg CHAPTER 10 .................................................................................................................... 163 NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF AIR QUALITY IN CITIES Jorge Adán Sánchez Reséndiz CHAPTER 11 ......................................................................................................................175 ECOPRODUCTIVE ARCHITECTUREFOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL AND RESTORATIVE CITIES: FROM PHYSICAL FORMS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS R. Andrés Ibáñez G. CHAPTER 12 .................................................................................................................... 201 GREEN FAÇADES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING Carl Stahl PART II COUNTRY EXPERIENCES .............................................. 208 CHAPTER 13 ..................................................................................................................... 211 EXPERIENCES WITH ECO ARCHITECTURE IN BERLIN LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE 1980S FOR TODAY’S SOLUTIONS Manfred Köhler, Ulrike Grau CHAPTER 14 ....................................................................................................................229 DEVELOPING THE GREEN ROOF AND WALL INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA FOR GREENER, HEALTHIER CITIES: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED Steven W. Peck MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 7 CHAPTER 15 ....................................................................................................................249 A BRAZILIAN GREEN ROOF STORY: HOW TO GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL? Sérgio Rocha CHAPTER 16 ....................................................................................................................263 GREEN ROOFS IN PORTUGAL: FROM INVISIBILITY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INCENTIVE POLICY FOR THE CITY OF PORTO Beatriz Castiglione and Paulo Palha CHAPTER 17 ......................................................................................................................271 ENGLAND: GREEN ROOFS IN LONDON FROM POLICY TO DELIVERY Dusty Gedge, Ben Moat PART III NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ............................................................277 AUSTRALIA ........................................279 IRAN ................................................... 315 AUSTRIA ............................................284 ISRAEL ............................................... 318 BELGIUM ...........................................286 ITALY ..................................................322 BOLIVIA .............................................287 JAPAN ................................................324 BRAZIL ...............................................289 KOREA ...............................................326 CHINA ............................................... 290 MEXICO .............................................328 COLOMBIA ........................................293 PERU .................................................. 330 CUBA ................................................. 296 POLAND.............................................332 CZECH REPUBLIC ............................ 300 PORTUGAL ....................................... 334 EFB .................................................... 302 SCANDINAVIA ................................. 336 FRANCE ............................................ 304 SINGAPORE .......................................338 GERMANY ........................................ 306 SPAIN ................................................ 339 HONG KONG .................................... 308 TAIWAN .............................................342 HUNGARY ..........................................312 THE NETHERLANDS ........................ 344 INDIA.................................................. 313 USA / CANADA .................................347 8 PREFACE MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 9 Green roof in Spain. I. de Felipe PREFACE The World Green Infrastructure Network con- WGIN, who supported this project. Every im- tinues with its own publications. After its first plementation of green infrastructure projects book “Green Cities in the World” in 2014, the needs competent partners, have a look at what update in 2015 and the Spanish version in 2016, they have to offer. the “Vertical urban agriculture” book followed in 2018. Now you have our new book in your We are on a tour with more stories coming up, hands, which also updates the overview of na- so pay attention to the next WGIN-congresses tional green infrastructure associations around with face to face contacts. Meanwhile here are the globe. some stories – we are happy about responses and we would like to get to know your thoughts The present book is a product of several WGIN about green infrastructure in some feed-back to members
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