Simon Bell - Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being

This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities.

Numerous cities around the world are located alongside bodies of water in the form of coastlines, lakes, rivers and canals, but the relationship between city inhabitants and these water sources has often been ambivalent. In many cities, water has been polluted, engineered or ignored completely. But, due to an increasing awareness of the strong connections between city, people, nature and water and health, this paradigm is shifting.

The international editorial team, consisting of researchers and professionals across several disciplines, leads the reader through theoretical aspects, evidence, illustrated case studies, risk assessment and a series of validated tools to aid planning and design before finishing with overarching planning and design principles for a range of blue-space types.

Over 200 full-colour illustrations accompany the case-study examples from geographic locations all over the world, including Portugal, the United Kingdom, China, Canada, the US, South Korea, Singapore, Norway and Estonia. With green and blue infrastructure now at the forefront of current policies and trends to promote healthy, sustainable cities, Urban Blue Spaces is a must-have for professionals and students in landscape planning, urban design and environmental design.

Simon Bell is a professor of landscape architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia, and Associate Director of the OPENspace Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Lora E. Fleming is a professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Oceans and Human Health and Director of the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK.

James Grellier is a research fellow at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK, and a senior scientific fellow at the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.

Friedrich Kuhlmann is a chief specialist in landscape architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia.

Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen is a research professor in environmental epidemiology at ISGlobal, Spain.

Mathew P. White is a senior scientist in environmental psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being

Edited by Simon Bell, Lora E. Fleming, James Grellier, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, and Mathew P. White

First published 2022

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Names: Bell, Simon, 1957 May 24 editor. | Kuhlmann, Friedrich, editor. | White, Mathew P., editor.

Title: Urban blue spaces : planning and design for water, health and well-being / edited by Simon Bell, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mathew P. White, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, James Grellier and Lora E. Fleming.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021016588 (print) | LCCN 2021016589 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367173180 (paperback) | ISBN 9780367173173 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429056161 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Land useEuropePlanningCase studies. | Sustainable developmentEuropeCase studies. | Ecological landscape designEuropeCase studies. | Landscape protectionEuropeCase studies.

Classification: LCC HD108.6 .U727 2022 (print) | LCC HD108.6 (ebook) | DDC 712.094dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016588

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016589

ISBN: 978-0-367-17317-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-17318-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-05616-1 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429056161

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