Green Area Plan and Project
The volume, now in its fifth edition, is a manual for planning and designing green areas, understood in their most complete meaning and in a unitary vision that ranges from natural areas to agricultural greenery, from urban greenery to metropolitan fringe areas, to greenery with an environmental recovery function. The planning process is closely linked to the design process: when an intervention is carried out, in fact, it is necessary to first answer the questions “what”, “where” and “why” (planning) and then decide “how” (design); and this applies both to the creation of a private garden, and to the creation of a public park, and to the environmental recovery of an area. Having clarified the basic elements and provided the evaluation methods for planning, the volume proposes a design path, integrated with proposals, examples and tables useful for design. One chapter is entirely dedicated to the principles of composition of open spaces. Given the importance of GIS and CAD technology in design practice, an illustration and a summary are provided. A draft of a “Standard Regulation for Green Areas in Municipal Areas” is proposed, which is certainly useful for both the public technician and the appointed designer. This new edition, updated in content, has been further enriched with the theme of green urban planning where the themes of urban planning are analyzed (building density, standards, elementary urban units, zoning, settlement models, roads, building heights, green spines), evaluating them in this perspective and providing operational indications in this regard. Furthermore, the design guidelines and a series of operational recommendations for some significant types of open spaces, such as universities, hospitals and production spaces, have been included.The new edition is completed by further updates on greenways and urban green routes, all easily accessible through an essential analytical index of the topics.Alessandro ToccoliniEngineer and architect, former full professor at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Milan. He is also president of the Italian Greenways Association, full member of the Accademia dei Georgofili, of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering, of the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture.
