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Zielone miasto – socjalna utopia?

Publication date: 08.01.2019

Housing Environment, 2018, 24/2018, pp. 42 - 49

https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.18.056.9646

Authors

Renata Mikielewicz
Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki, Wydział Budownictwa, Architektury i Inżynierii Środowiska, Politechnika Łódzka
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6891-4138 Orcid
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‘The Green City’ – an social utopia?

Abstract

‘Green is more than a color. It is a philosophy.’ – the Benneton marketing slogan used among others on the firm’s bags. Green color and greenery build nowadays a specific interchange for the idea of sustainable development when related to the creation of the urban space. At the same time, this includes the definition of sustainable development and excludes its un­derstanding through instrumental use of already existing green areas (especially trees). So a city, subjected to overcrowding (because of concentration caused mainly by migration), and on the other hand – to depopulation (through the migration to suburban areas in want for the nature’s proximity), as a ‘green city’ is becoming a social utopia. A description of exemplary dealings with greenery and water resources in urban space (and a comparison of the methods and attitudes to natural urban resources) starts a consideration process of the present and the future of a city as an urban form.

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Information: Housing Environment, 2018, 24/2018, pp. 42 - 49

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:
‘The Green City’ – an social utopia?
Polish:

Zielone miasto – socjalna utopia?

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6891-4138

Renata Mikielewicz
Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki, Wydział Budownictwa, Architektury i Inżynierii Środowiska, Politechnika Łódzka
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6891-4138 Orcid
All publications →

Instytut Architektury i Urbanistyki, Wydział Budownictwa, Architektury i Inżynierii Środowiska, Politechnika Łódzka

Published at: 08.01.2019

Article status: Open

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Renata Mikielewicz (Author) - 100%

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Polish, English