Green Blue Infrastructure methodologies and design proposals

Antonio Acierno; Emanuela Coppola

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-143-7

Green Blue Infrastructure methodologies and design proposals

Authors

Antonio Acierno

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-0922

Emanuela Coppola

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-1160

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-143-7

Keywords:

Green Blue Infrastructure, ecological planning, urban regeneration, multifunctionality, multi-scalar design

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TRIA Urban Studies

Pages: 346

Language: italian, english

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28326

Abstract: The Green Blue Infrastructure is a multifunctional and flexible approach based on various layers, composing an organic network. This design methodology has the potential to recompose together fragments of the contemporary city, generating positive effects on both communities and landscape while improving the health and well-being of people and ecosystems. In this book, different project proposals are presented, facing many contexts and themes, all of which can be traced back to the theory of Green Blue Infrastructure. In the first part of the volume, the attention is focused on the Italian territory, in particular in the South, where the design of Green Blue Infrastructures is still very limited: the presented projects address some relevant issues of this ecological approach, like health issues, multifunctionality, connectivity in the green-grey continuum and resilience, proposing design tools and project elements but also possible improvements in the governance and in the management. In the second part of this book, it is possible to recognise two main methodological approaches to the Green Blue Infrastructure. The first one deals with multi-scalarity of ecological design in the context of European coastal landscapes; the second one considers the relationship between the continuity of green networks and the safety and liveability of public spaces. Anyway, both methodologies try to cope with different aspects of the socio-environmental development, following the principle of integration between urban safety, regeneration and Green Blue Infrastructure design.

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Author Biographies

Antonio Acierno, University of Naples Federico II

architect and urban planner, Ph.D, Associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture (DiARC) of the University Federico II of Naples. Coordinator of the Master in Territorial Urban Landscape and Environmental Planning at the University Federico II; Vice-Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center on Urban Planning “A. Calza Bini”. Scientific editor in chief of the urban planning journal TRIA. His main interests are the theory and innovation in Urban Planning and Design, regarding social and environmental safety of places, in urban and peri-urban contexts, both in research and teaching. He has published numerous books and scientific papers on national and international journals and book series on urban safety, green infrastructure, urban regeneration, urban and landscape planning.

Emanuela Coppola, University of Naples Federico II

Researcher in Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture (DIARC) of the Federico II University of Naples and is the coordinator of the “Bagnoli Laboratory”, an internal structure of the LUPT Research Center of the Federico II University of Naples.

Winner of the “Alla Ricerca di Talenti - Roberto Marrama Award” competition, research section - 2005, she is also the winner of the INU Prize for Urban Literature 2015 for the research “Sustainable urban infrastructures” and of the GIS Day Scientific Award in 2019.

City Organizer Naples as part of the world organization of the Jane’s Walk Festival of conversations from 2018 she has been the creator and curator of identity walks in the Bagnoli district of 2018, 2019 and 2022.

She is editor of the magazine Urbanistica Informazioni and the author of numerous national and international articles. Research themes: environmental planning, ecological transformation of cities, green and blue infrastructures, healthy cities, local development policies and urban communities.