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Multifunctionality of urban green spaces in the EU
Recently, there has been a global trend of people migrating from rural areas to urban centers, known as urbanization. While this process creates further dynamics in city planning, social services and many more professional or scientific fields, geographic research of recent years has had its focus inter alia on livelihood in urban areas (Jones & Newsome, 2015; Zhang et al., 2022). Closely connected to that are ‘urban green spaces’ (UGS), which are often defined as every green or blue surface area inside a city’s borders. UGSs play a vital role in serving diverse landscape functions (LF), such as the critical task of water filtration, significantly influencing the well-being of urban residents as well as the overall ecological health of the city. As cities have experienced significant population density growth in recent decades, UGSs are tasked with fulfilling multiple LF responsibilities. In this thesis I want to measure the multifunctionality (MF) of UGSs in the European Union (EU), to provide valuable insight for decision-makers to identify areas for improvement in parks and other greenspaces. For this purpose, an indicator of MF was developed and applied to cities across Europe. By conducting case studies on selected cities, variations in MF can be observed and analyzed. Additionally, this thesis compares the MF with socio-economic factors to determine if correlations between these factors and the multifunctionality of UGS in the same area exist among different areas within a city.
Multifunctionality of urban green spaces in the EU
Recently, there has been a global trend of people migrating from rural areas to urban centers, known as urbanization. While this process creates further dynamics in city planning, social services and many more professional or scientific fields, geographic research of recent years has had its focus inter alia on livelihood in urban areas (Jones & Newsome, 2015; Zhang et al., 2022). Closely connected to that are ‘urban green spaces’ (UGS), which are often defined as every green or blue surface area inside a city’s borders. UGSs play a vital role in serving diverse landscape functions (LF), such as the critical task of water filtration, significantly influencing the well-being of urban residents as well as the overall ecological health of the city. As cities have experienced significant population density growth in recent decades, UGSs are tasked with fulfilling multiple LF responsibilities. In this thesis I want to measure the multifunctionality (MF) of UGSs in the European Union (EU), to provide valuable insight for decision-makers to identify areas for improvement in parks and other greenspaces. For this purpose, an indicator of MF was developed and applied to cities across Europe. By conducting case studies on selected cities, variations in MF can be observed and analyzed. Additionally, this thesis compares the MF with socio-economic factors to determine if correlations between these factors and the multifunctionality of UGS in the same area exist among different areas within a city.
Multifunctionality of urban green spaces in the EU
Sigrist, Jan (author)
2023-07-19
doi:10.5167/uzh-252243
Sigrist, Jan. Multifunctionality of urban green spaces in the EU. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.
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