The green metropolis generator: Developer's toolkit for urban landscape in the Green

Abstract

In this paper, a method is developed to identify a typology of interrelated landscapes in the urban - rural realm, in order to describe the connection between landscape characteristics, natural environment characteristics and ecological strategies, finally translated into spatial planning styles. This interrelated complex of physical, social and managerial concepts may at first seem unusual, but the authors are convinced that this approach provides a useful insight. That one of the great challenges for planners today is to connect the best of two worlds: the one actually focussing on differentiation in governance style in the field of planning concepts, as well the one focussing the debate on landscape ecology on connectivity in spatial structures as the key towards sustainability in both nature development and sustainable urban planning. © 2007 WIT Press.