TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adedeji,Joseph Adeniran
TI  - Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba Cities in Nigeria: An Ecosystem Services Approach 
T2  - Cities and Nature,
SN  - 9783031346880
U1  - 577.56 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Urban ecology (Biology)
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Landscape architecture
KW  - Culture
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Urban Ecology
KW  - Social and Cultural Geography
KW  - Landscape Architecture
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Urban Sociology
N1  - Chapter 1. Introduction: Ecosystem Services of Green Infrastructure - Towards a Theoretical Praxis -- Chapter 2. Ecological Urbanism in Yoruba Cities - An Ecosystem Services Survey -- Chapter 3. Ecosystem Services of Yoruba Home Greens - Indigenous Knowledge System for Wellbeing -- Chapter 4. Between Profanity and Sacredness - Global North and South Divide -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Evidence-based Design of Eco-cultural Cities
N2  - This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants' interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria. It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osogbo; Biological Garden and Park, Akure; Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos; Adekunle Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti; Muri Okunola Park, Lagos; and some institutional GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens, Ibadan; Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Botanical Garden, Abeokuta; and University of Lagos Lagoon Front Resort, Lagos, Nigeria. The study draws on theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green spaces, home gardens, and English-types of parks and gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism, colonial and post-colonial city planning. The book provides methods of achieving a form of modernized traditionalism as means of translating the IKS into design strategies for eco-cultural cities. The strategies are framework, model, and ethnographic design algorithms that are syntheses of the lived experiences of the key informants
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34688-0
ER  -