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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Eco-cities: The Role of Networks of Green and Blue Spaces

Author : Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira

Published in: Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

The chapter analyzes how networks of green and blue spaces are being used in the design of new eco-cities. These projects aim to define a new city typology, create models of sustainable development that would contribute to the resolution of the global need for more urban spaces, increase well-being and decrease ecological footprint. In this regard, green and blue infrastructures are playing fundamental roles in current eco-city design. Initially, the text presents our contemporary urban challenges, the emergence of the idea of the eco-city and the new meanings that networks of green and blue spaces are acquiring. Four recent case studies are analyzed and compared in order to draw conclusions on the significance of these systems of open space in the construction of a theory and practice of eco-city design.

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Footnotes
1
Since Register’s book there has been a series of International Ecocity Conferences. The last one was held in Montreal in 2011.
 
2
However, very little information can be found about the majority of these projects.
 
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Metadata
Title
Eco-cities: The Role of Networks of Green and Blue Spaces
Author
Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-37660-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-37661-0

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37661-0_9