Green-blue pathways: Enhancing city connectivity and urban vitality through green-blue infrastructure in Norrköping, Sweden
(2024) ASBM01 20241Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- Our world is facing major challenges and the built environment plays a major role in both adapting to, and, challenging the current situation. As urbanization advances and densification takes place, more people reside in cities with an estimated 68% of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Urban areas confront mounting challenges due to population growth, resource constraints and the escalating effects of climate change. Tackling these issues is crucial to ensure cities offer healthy and sustainable living conditions.
What research clearly indicates is that urban green and blue spaces have the potential to play a vital role in achieving the Sustainable Development goals of the United Nations. With connection to... (More) - Our world is facing major challenges and the built environment plays a major role in both adapting to, and, challenging the current situation. As urbanization advances and densification takes place, more people reside in cities with an estimated 68% of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Urban areas confront mounting challenges due to population growth, resource constraints and the escalating effects of climate change. Tackling these issues is crucial to ensure cities offer healthy and sustainable living conditions.
What research clearly indicates is that urban green and blue spaces have the potential to play a vital role in achieving the Sustainable Development goals of the United Nations. With connection to both urbanization and densification, as well as people’s health – not to mention climate change – the importance of nature and greenery can not be emphasized enough as its function and presence is important both on an individual level and for entire societies. Urban green and blue spaces not only provide benefits for the environment but also improve public health and well-being.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the spatial organization of a densification development in Norrköping, Sweden, can be arranged with focus on green-blue values as a driver for transformation, activation and integration and create a lively, mixed used and pedestrian friendly district that also improves the overall connectivity in a city scale. The design proposal attempts to meet the needs of a growing city where the holistic benefits of green-blue values plays the key role. (Less)
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- author
- Öquist, Lovisa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ASBM01 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainable Urban Design, Green-blue Infrastructure, Densification
- language
- English
- id
- 9165084
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-19 08:40:20
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abstract = {{Our world is facing major challenges and the built environment plays a major role in both adapting to, and, challenging the current situation. As urbanization advances and densification takes place, more people reside in cities with an estimated 68% of the world’s population expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Urban areas confront mounting challenges due to population growth, resource constraints and the escalating effects of climate change. Tackling these issues is crucial to ensure cities offer healthy and sustainable living conditions.
What research clearly indicates is that urban green and blue spaces have the potential to play a vital role in achieving the Sustainable Development goals of the United Nations. With connection to both urbanization and densification, as well as people’s health – not to mention climate change – the importance of nature and greenery can not be emphasized enough as its function and presence is important both on an individual level and for entire societies. Urban green and blue spaces not only provide benefits for the environment but also improve public health and well-being.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the spatial organization of a densification development in Norrköping, Sweden, can be arranged with focus on green-blue values as a driver for transformation, activation and integration and create a lively, mixed used and pedestrian friendly district that also improves the overall connectivity in a city scale. The design proposal attempts to meet the needs of a growing city where the holistic benefits of green-blue values plays the key role.}},
author = {{Öquist, Lovisa}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Green-blue pathways: Enhancing city connectivity and urban vitality through green-blue infrastructure in Norrköping, Sweden}},
year = {{2024}},
}