Green Infrastructure Gauge: A Tool for Evaluating Green Infrastructure Inclusion in Existing and Future Urban Areas

M’Ikiugu, Martin Mwirigi; Wang, Qianna; Kinoshita, Isami

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.12.269

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“…The proposed approach was conducted as described in the previous sections. This section presents the empirical analysis of Tokyo, one of the most urbanized and densely populated spots on earth [88]. In addition, to obtain correct results and reduce the role of the random factor, the analysis has covered the most extensive number of existing AGs from official data; the 472 mappable AGs are used as the research object for this study.…”

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Provision of Allotment Gardens and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Tokyo, Japan

Hua

Akita

Araki

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Allotment gardens (AGs) are widely used in metropolitan areas around the world to offer agricultural opportunities to urban residents. However, there are not enough individual plots for residents to rent for urban gardening, and research on AGs from a city-wide perspective is ongoing. In addition, AGs have a long history in Tokyo, yet few international studies on the current situation of AGs have addressed Asian cities. Thus, this study intends to analyze the provision of AGs and its influencing factors in Tokyo. Using ArcGIS combined the 472-points dataset created by geo-coordinate mapping with urban GIS data to reveal spatial characteristics in four dimensions. Results demonstrate that most AGs are in the urbanization promotion area; most municipalities have AGs; AGs are concentrated within 20 to 30 km from the center of Tokyo; the AGs’ clusters are located at the municipal boundaries. We conducted multiple regressions to determine the influencing factors at the municipal level, with the provision that AGs are related to population density, land price, and the ratio of productive green space. The policy implication of this study is that policymakers need to consider the siting strategy of AGs based on spatial characteristics of AGs.

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Provision of Allotment Gardens and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Tokyo, Japan

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Akita

Araki

et al. 2022

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“…The concept of green spaces is multidimensional and tends to vary in research according to the researchers' aims, activity, and fields of interest. A series of studies (Benedict, McMahon, 2006;Green infrastructure..., 2011;M'Ikiugu et al, 2012;Kramer, 2014;Jaszczak, Kristianova, 2019) on employment of green spaces with the view towards ecological (environmental), economic, social goals have revealed that green spaces should be accessible and used both by individuals and by the local community. Developing urban areas increase the threat of degradation of green spaces, and not only with the respect to nature and ecosystem services, as these developments also challenge how nature can support the wellbeing of various social groups.…”

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Strengthening Youth Wellbeing Through Green Spaces: Case Study of a Small Town

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Vaznonis

2020

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development

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The article deals with the concept of green spaces as a part of green infrastructure by highlighting its benefit to wellbeing of the youth living in a small town. Properly maintained and equipped green spaces are positive elements of living environment which attracts youth to stay where they live and not to move to cities. The increasing interest in wellbeing issues in different territorial levels reveals the necessity to explore how youth wellbeing can be strengthened by using, being and acting in green spaces. The aim of the article is to analyse the importance of green spaces to youth wellbeing. The research question: in which ways can green spaces contribute to better wellbeing of youth? Case study and experts' interview methods were used to explore the formulated research question. The results of the research have demonstrated that green spaces promote youth wellbeing including personal development, physical functioning, emotional status, and have positive effects on their overall wellbeing. The results may serve as the groundwork for further researches of this kind and as the guidelines for local communities in small towns and other actors concerned with promotion of youth wellbeing.

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“…Although all these dimensions are of an eminently spatial nature (Mwirigi et al, 2012;Tzoulas et al, 2007), difficulties nevertheless arise in the spatially explicit design of territorial elements for inclusion in a GI. The increasing application of the concept to territorial planning makes it even more necessary to develop tools and procedures that help planners and local government, for example, to draw up spatial plans that identify and map potential elements for inclusion in a GI through suitability analysis.…”

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Green infrastructure design using GIS and spatial analysis: a proposal for the Henares Corridor (Madrid-Guadalajara, Spain)

2019

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. services; ecological connectivity; ecological status; and proximity/potential accessibility to the public. The results of this analysis were combined using Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) techniques, thus offering different alternatives for defining and designing GI. The GI maps obtained show better results in less restrictive situations, which could be considered to articulate the existing protected areas. Not only is our proposal a promising tool for defining this kind of infrastructure, but its implementation only requires a limited amount of base spatial datasets.

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Green Infrastructure Gauge: A Tool for Evaluating Green Infrastructure Inclusion in Existing and Future Urban Areas

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Provision of Allotment Gardens and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Tokyo, Japan

Provision of Allotment Gardens and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Tokyo, Japan

Strengthening Youth Wellbeing Through Green Spaces: Case Study of a Small Town

Green infrastructure design using GIS and spatial analysis: a proposal for the Henares Corridor (Madrid-Guadalajara, Spain)

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