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Mind Map #3, Christophe Pellerin and Gabe Lavoie - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map #3
Urban forest as green infrastructures
Different systems and approach
Provide services rather than goods
Circulate energy and information
Treating every green spaces as interdependent components
It's more like a living, interconnected network
Infrastrucure
Delivering ecosystem services
Healthy Food
Air quality, filter pollutants and regulate microclimates
Clean Water regulation
Reframes as a "Functional system" of green infrastructure
Integration of urban food systems
Beacon Food Forest (7-acre public food forest)
Functional expansion (Urban forest provides fruits, nuts, mushrooms and plants)
P-Patch Gardens (small-scale community plots)
Components
Green roofs
Residential yards
Urban, Ecological biodiversity and Environmental Services
Community gardens
Parks
Social, Cultural and Life
Health benefits (Green space = improves mental and physical state
Parks and trail enhance quality of life
Shared space and community foster interaction and sociability
Economic and Policy
Can increases values and investment
Reduces infrastuructures costs
Economic valuation of urban forests for funding and inclusion
Prioritize equity in food distribution
Can follow a framework widely used by municipal forestry programs
Creating meaning change in policy for the future generations
Using the living systems ecological principle framework the shape the cities of the future
In Reading #5 overall the author is arguing that to transform cities into sustainable ecosystems three main things need to happen
Rethinking Design
Rethinking Economy
Rethinking Governance
Cities as Living systems - Newman and Jennings
Article speaks of reworking and building a new framework for rethinking cities as living systems
Current cities are viewed as isolating and destructive
Author argues that cities should "mimic key factors which ecological systems are built on"
Resilience
interdependence
Energy Efficiency
diversity
Urban sustainability
Must be an action that functions like our natural ecosystems
Cities who lead in implementing sustainable ecosystem practices
Perth, Australia
A water smart and sensitive design
Green transport
Implementing renewable energy
To build cities as living systems ecological principles must be implemented
Article speaks of a few that would offer the biggest hand in helping
Energy and Resource Cycling
Cities minimise waste while mimicking nutrient cycles found in ecosystems, the idea where an output becomes an input for another process
Long-Term Sustainability Thinking
Prioritising the future and future generations in planning
Biodiversity and Interconnection
Bringing diversity in animal, plant, and human systems. Building resilience and adaptability
Integration of Ecological and Social Systems
The overall human health, equality, and culture are directly attached to ecological health.
Urban Greening
Integrating vegetation and natural elements into city
Ecological benefits
Climate regulation
Create microhabitats, composting, mulching, stabilize soil.
Soil Health
Biodiversity corridors
Policy strategy
Biodiversity strategies
Equity towards Urban Greening
Prioritizes ares with a lot of food insecurity or pollution
Promoting multi-functional spaces
Christophe Pellerin and Gabe Lavoie