Strategic planning for new woodlands in the urban periphery: through the lens of social inclusiveness
(2005) Urban Forestry & Urban Greening — Vol. 3, n° 3-4, p. 177-188 (2005)
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- Current strategies for creating new woodlands in the urban periphery aim to provide as many people as possible with a recreational green space close to where they live. When taking a socially inclusive approach, however, this also involves a number of ‘distributional’ questions. These refer to the kind of people likely to benefit the most from such a plan: urban or suburban residents, low or high-income groups, and so forth. This article presents a GIS-based working method aimed at exploring different options for urban woodland proposals with regard to their positioning in relation to residential areas, as well as the socio-spatial characteristics of those areas. The example of seven possible locations for a new ‘peri-urban forest’ in Antwerp, Belgium was used to demonstrate the method's potential to address relevant questions in socially inclusive planning and hence, to improve strategic planning for new urban woodlands.
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Van Herzele, A., De Clercq, E. M., & Wiedemann, T. (2005). Strategic planning for new woodlands in the urban periphery: through the lens of social inclusiveness. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 3(3-4), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2005.01.002 (Original work published 2005)