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As this volume draws to an end, what conclusions can we reach? How can we summarise our findings? For many years the forest of Mumbai’s national park was managed like a “fortress”—not that this prevented leopards from getting out nor thousands of slum dwellers getting in: what has it in common with the fynbos shrub of Cape Town’s national park, which is crisscrossed by asphalt roads as well as numerous economically disparate residential suburbs, which contribute to its image as a world-class city enhanced by the “nature” criterion?
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This neologism has already been used by Gaulier (2013), an architect and landscape designer who argues for the creation or rehabilitation of urban landscapes with sustainability and conservation agendas.
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Michael Slayen, “Tokai Plantation: Transition to an urban National Park”, paper for UNPEC BiodiverCities Conference, Rescaling Natural Parks and the City, Cape Town, Apr 7–9, 2014.
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Uma Adusumili, “The Mumbai debate”, UNPEC BiodiverCities Conference, Rescaling Natural Parks and the City, Cape Town, Apr 7–9, 2014.
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J. Swanepoel, S. Didier, “A park for all… by all?”, BiodiverCities Conference, Cape Town, April 7, 2014.
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Landy, F. (2018). Conclusion: National Parks Between Urbanisation and Globalisation. In: Landy, F. (eds) From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8462-1_13
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