From Landscape to Garden-with Wildflowers Meadows


Autoria(s): Ponte-e Sousa, Clara; Castro, Maria Conceição; Carvalho, Mário
Contribuinte(s)

Gismondi, Simone

Frassi, Silvia

Data(s)

19/01/2017

19/01/2017

01/04/2016

Resumo

Since the middle age wildflower meadows are used to bring the flowers from the natural and rural areas into urban landscapes. Wildflowers meadows can improve the quality of Green Infrastructures as they increase biodiversity. However, after a few centuries of given flowers a principal part, lawns started to be used in every kind of places leading to a green obsession. Nowadays, urban lawns are cover more than 70% of urban green spaces all over the world. Frequently design options aren’t environmental or economical friendly, and lawns are this example. Lawns are green deserts with low biodiversity, and unsustainable. Wildflower meadows are an alternative to lawns, more sustainable, less resources consumer and much more biodiverse. In the regions with a Mediterranean climate water is a limit factor, especial in summer.

Identificador

Ponte-e Sousa, C., Castro,M.C., Carvalho, M.(2016).From Landscape to Garden-with Wilflower Meadows in Tasting the Landscape. Procceedings of 53rd IFLA World Congress, April, Torino, Italy

http://hdl.handle.net/10174/19865

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Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Edifir-Edizioni Firenze

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Wildflower meadows #urban spaces
Tipo

article