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Greening The Urban Habitat: A Quantitative And Empirical Approach (Hardcover)
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Greening The Urban Habitat: A Quantitative And Empirical Approach (Hardcover)
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This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects
and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and
building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the
liveability of their cities. It introduces the Singapore Green Plot
Ratio (GnPR) as an Urban Planning Metric to promote the widespread
and intensive use of greenery for new and existing buildings in
towns and cities like Singapore - a former third world city that
has transformed into one of the world's most liveable
metropolises.Increasing urban greenery has been observed to enhance
the quality of our built environment, and in turn, the quality of
life of its inhabitants. The book shows readers how to do so using
the GnPR, which it presents as an important urban complement of the
leaf area ratio (LAI) concept, through an in-depth discussion of
three key aspects of the GnPR. It proposes optimal levels of GnPR
for various land-use types and how these levels are benchmarked
against current levels of greenery provision; stipulates the
greenery quantum which encourages the concentration of some plants,
especially native trees and certain local species; and advocates
the development of ecological or natural landscapes over manicured
gardens. The book also discusses the impact of various levels of
GnPR provision with the inevitable capital and maintenance costs of
greening built environments, and how they affect the application of
the GnPR guidelines.
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