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Towards a Spatial Planning Framework for the Re-naturing of Cities

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This chapter presents a framework for the spatial planning of re-naturing cities. There is today a lively debate about re-naturing cities, since it can address multiple societal challenges and generate benefits such as the enhancement of health and wellbeing, sustainable urbanisation, ecosystems and their services and resilience to climate change. Yet, further consideration of the roles that positive spatial planning and planning models in particular have to play in fostering the integration of urbanisation with nature is needed. This chapter, thus, focuses on representative models with such potential, including the grid, the linear, the concentric and the radial. Initially, it identifies major principles for the spatial re-naturing of cities. Secondly, it analyses the main characteristics of each of the four models, concentrating in particular on their suitability to deliver on the re-naturing principles discussed previously. The chapter then centres on how a hybrid approach can maximise the systemic integration of natural and urban systems. Finally, the conclusions offer insights into the potentialities of planning models in bridging the city–nature dichotomy and potential future directions of development.

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Lemes de Oliveira, F. (2019). Towards a Spatial Planning Framework for the Re-naturing of Cities. In: Lemes de Oliveira, F., Mell, I. (eds) Planning Cities with Nature. Cities and Nature. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_6

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