Urban parks as a driver for urban sustainability – case studies from Oporto, Portugal
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Luis Loures ; Laura Costa [1]
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[1] Universidade de Trás-os-Monts e Alto Douro - CIFAP
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- Localización: Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.5th - 6th May 2016 / coord. por Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, 2016, ISBN 978-989-8472-82-3, págs. 584-590
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Urban parks are an important part of the complex urban ecosystem network and provide significant ecosystemservices, benefiting urban communities both environmentally, aesthetically, recreationally and economically.Nevertheless, urban parks and other greenscapes as we know them today, are the result of a deep and long evolutionstarted during the industrial revolution era in England. These urban greenscapes generally associated to a complexgreenway networks could contribute to restore natural processes and functions, promoting sustainable growth.However, the intricacy of these spaces, evident in the number of different ways in which they have been described,both in the literature and by designers and other specialists who worked and/or analyzed them, make urban parks’ rolein urban development and city design, hard to explain and even more difficult to envision and design.This paper assesses two different urban park projects of the Oporto metropolitan area, evaluating how theycontribute to ecological, social and economic sustainability of the Oporto metropolitan landscape, addressing theimportance of urban nature for citizens’ quality of life and sustainable city development. The performed studycomplements a research developed in 2012 in order to assess the impact of urban parks to urban ecological sustainability
