Nature and City : an Integrated Approach to Urban Biodiversity

The book “Nature and City”. An Integrated Approach to Urban Biodiversity illustrates the outcomes of the research developed for the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC). The research investigates urban transformation processes through an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, defining strategies, methods, and tools for enhancing biodiversity and mitigating environmental stressors in urban environments. The theoretical framework is grounded in the evolution of the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) concept as an overarching paradigm for the sustainable management of urban ecosystems. The approach adopted is holistic and systemic: the built environment is conceived as a hybrid and dynamic system where nature and human construction operate as co-evolutionary and interdependent components.

Roberto Bologna, architect, PhD, full professor of Technological and Environmental Design of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence, and Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre Systems and Technologies for Social, Healthcare and Education Structures (TESIS).Anna Lambertini, architect with a postgraduate specialization and PhD in Landscape Architecture, is associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. She is coordinator of the DIDA Research Unit Exploring for Landscape Architecture. Luca Solari, engineer, PhD, full professor of Hydraulics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, and director of the international PhD course in Civil and Environmental Engineering. [Publisher's text]

Pianificazione urbanistica, aspetti architettonici.

Collected essays.

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