Greenery in urban morphology : a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities
Łaszkiewicz, Edyta (University of Łódź. Faculty of Economics and Sociology)
Wolff, Manuel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Department of Geography)
Andersson, Erik (Stockholm University. Stockholm Resilience Centre)
Kronenberg, Jakub (University of Łódź. Faculty of Economics and Sociology)
Barton, David N. (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research)
Haase, Dagmar (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)
Langemeyer, Johannes (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Baró Porras, Francesc (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
McPhearson, Timon (The New School. Urban Systems Lab)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	The understanding of urban social-ecological systems requires integrated and interdisciplinary methods. This paper explores differences in the accessibility of urban green spaces (UGS) based on urban morphology. In contrast to other comparative analyses that followed simplified quantification of UGS provision and/or omitted the impact of morphological properties of urban space, this study proposes three improvements. First, it uses the share of UGS in the service area of 300 m walking distance around each residential building in a city as a measure of UGS provision. Second, it includes the potential physical accessibility of UGS as warranted by key actors, such as owners or managers, who decide whether UGS are open or not to potential users. Third, it links UGS accessibility and heterogeneous urban structures. We developed a mixed-methods analysis that combines multiple data sources regarding UGS, the spatial distribution of residential buildings, and street networks. We conducted our analysis in five case-study cities (Barcelona, Halle, Lodz, Oslo, and Stockholm). Our findings suggest that the urban structures where the human-environment interaction transformed the space (such as in the core city areas) are characterized by limited UGS in the service area. Urban structures that are less transformed by human activity (especially suburbia) have the highest share of selected UGS in the service area. In addition, even if the share of UGS in the service area is high, many of them might have limited physical accessibility. In the broader sense, this highlights that social-ecological processes are linked to urban form and cannot be separated in an analysis. Therefore, social-ecological systems could be better understood through the lens of urban morphology.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	GIS ; Land use ; Landscape metrics ; Social-ecological systems ; Spatial analysis ; Urban green space management
Published in:	Ecology and society, Vol. 27, issue 3 (Sep. 2022) , art. 22, ISSN 1708-3087

DOI: 10.5751/ES-13453-270322

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