Green Infrastructure [electronic resource] : Planning Strategies and Environmental Design / edited by Benedetta Giudice, Gilles Novarina, Angioletta Voghera.

Framing green (and blue) infrastructure -- Part 1: Planning strategies -- Milton Keynes, the "Forest City". From the landscape planning to the advent of the car, lessons for the future green infrastructure?- Towards a method of assessing the well-being brought by landscape and heritage along a blue and green infrastructure: The Loire Valley (France) -- Unfolding the Aniene River in Peri-urban Rome. From conflicts to opportunities for a sustainable strategy -- Landscape and ecological networks -- A multi-scalar green infrastructure project for the landscape enhancement and regional regeneration of media and Alta Valtellina -- Re-urbanising the contemporary city. Spatial planning and green strategy in Turin -- Part 2: Urban design -- When constraints become assets in the design of blue-green infrastructures: An insight from two cases in the Western part of France (Loire River Basin) -- 'River Movie', nature, and culture projects on the banks of Lyon's Rhône and Saône Rivers -- Designing a captivating proximity to water: Two case studies of the Iberian Peninsula -- Limiting soil sealing and depaving: Local actions for regenerating public spaces to build green infrastructures.-"Surviving the City". Nature as an architecture design strategy for a more resilient urban ecosystem -- Part 3: Innovative practices. A dialogue between researchers and practitioners -- From theory to planning practice. The green and blue infrastructure in the urban plan of Ravenna. Interview with Carlo Gasparrini -- Green and blue infrastructure. Integration of landscapes. Interview with Andreas Kipar (Studio Land) -- Integration of biodiversity in the urban project approach. Interview with Magali Volkwein and Sébastien Roussel (Agence Devillers and Associés Paris) -- Future perspectives and approaches towards operationalisation.

This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. The GI strategy is widely recognized for its multifunctionality (as a tool for ecological, economic and social enhancement) and multiscalarity. Starting from this assumption, the book intends to implement the concept of GI and blue networks in planning strategies and their linked urban projects. New urban and regional paradigms of the latest years, such as urban sprawl, ecosystem services, biodiversity, urban resilience, climate change and health emergencies, have made it necessary to rethink cities and territories and their related plans and projects. To satisfy these paradigms, worldwide plans and projects have started to focus both on short-term and long-term processes and strategies which integrate environmental, landscape and ecological elements. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.