A book chapter in the book “Metropolitan Design as a New Discipline”,
Roland Krebs and Stefan Mayr (editors)
About the book: Today’s cities are growing rapidly, creating heterogeneous urban fabrics that cross administrative and political borders. To meet the challenges of our time, a new cross-sectoral, multi-level, and people-centered planning approach is needed. Metropolitan planning is therefore essential to contemporary planning practice and culture and must take into account the potential of both urban and rural spaces. This publication introduces the new discipline of metropolitan design by sharing innovative and international knowledge of interconnected mobility, balanced growth, resilient landscapes and integrated programming of metropolitan regions.
The book is a project of the MetroLab – a Think Tank and Consulting Service for Metropolitan Areas and City Regions. Through collaboration and active participation, MetroLab provides tools to develop future-proof and highly liveable city regions.
Editors: Roland Krebs & Stefan Mayr
Publisher: Jovis
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9783986120115
Publication Date: April 2023
About the book chapter: Ecosystem functions offer a robust framework for managing complex environmental challenges associated with modern metropolises. A comprehensive urban ecosystem approach faces certain urban areas, such as urban wasteland occupied by nature, as valuable natural resources interrelated to the entire urban environment, aiming to provide strategic solutions for enhancement integrated ecosystem services. This chapter argues that we should consider ecosystem functions within the city of Thessaloniki as dynamic, hybrid, and living ecosystems, well-connected and lying between the city and nature. This approach provides new key aspects for policymakers and planners, particularly as urban sustainability, resilience, and environmental crisis, increasingly reshape cities and elevate consideration of these topics.
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