Green Infrastructures for Urban Water System: Balance between Cities and Nature

Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History

Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities

Nature based solutions are amongst other practices that transition initiatives work with when intervening in their place and change its fabric. Focusing on the actors establishing, driving and scaling these solutions in and across cities, we come to evince that nature-based solutions have transformative social impact since they mediate new social relations and new social configurations contribu...

Urban water management in cities: historical, current and future regimes.

Drawing from three phases of a social research programme between 2002 and 2008, this paper proposes a framework for underpinning the development of urban water transitions policy and city-scale benchmarking at the macro scale. Through detailed historical, contemporary and futures research involving Australian cities, a transitions framework is proposed, presenting a typology of six city states,...

Between Green and Grey: Towards a New Green Volume Indicator for Cities

Trees in urban settings have vast and documented benefits for city dwellers. We propose that to represent city green the green volume should be taken into account, instead of surface or number of trees. In addition, green volume should be seen in relation to the built “grey” volume to account for dilution or misrepresentation effects. This paper is a first contribution to develop tree-to-buildi...

A Comprehensive System for Monitoring Urban Accessibility in Smart Cities

The present work discusses the possibilities offered by the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies with the aim of designing a system to dynamically obtain knowledge of accessibility issues in urban environments. This system is facilitated by technology to analyse the urban user experience and movement accessibility, which enabling accurate identification of urban barriers and ...