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Global Green Infrastructure: Lessons for successful policy-making, investment and management [1° ed.]
1138854646, 9781138854642

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Ian Mell

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
1 Introduction: green infrastructure: what, where and why?
2 The antecedents of green infrastructure: Olmsted, Howard and beyond
3 Green infrastructure: linking concepts with practice
4 The USA: water management in Chicago and the Atlanta Beltline development
5 UK: Cambridgeshire Green Infrastructure Strategy and the London Olympic Park
6 Europe: green infrastructure development in Paris (France) and Milan (Italy)
7 India: lessons in innovative green infrastructure planning in New Delhi and Ahmedabad
8 China: evaluating the value of green infrastructure planning in Shanghai and Suzhou
9 Global reflections of green infrastructure investment: successes and barriers
Bibliography
Index

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