Developing the Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure as a Tool for Urban Air Quality Management

Joanna Badach; Jakub Szczepański; Wojciech Bonenberg; Jacek Gębicki; Lucyna Nyka

doi:10.3390/su14159688

Developing the Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure as a Tool for Urban Air Quality Management

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Urban structure is an important factor that shapes the process of urban ventilation and pollution dispersion. With proper planning of the urban spatial layout, city breathability can be effectively regulated, contributing to urban air quality improvement. This paper investigates the development and current management of urban systems of green and open spaces in four Polish cities: Gda ´nsk, Warsaw, Pozna ´n and Wrocław, with a particular focus on the planning aspects of urban ventilation and air quality management. The initial GIS-based comparison of historical plans and the current spatial layouts of the cities show that these systems, consciously shaped at the beginning of the twentieth century, remain clearly identifiable. However, in some locations, the continuance of these systems was interrupted by later investments. The next step was to develop GIS procedures to effectively map the spatial distribution of selected urban form indicators that are related to urban ventilation, especially the frontal area index. The results made it possible to determine the main features of the current ventilation systems and to identify some of the local problem areas. The last phase of the study was to conduct a local-scale analysis of these problem areas. With this study, the applicability of various analysis and simulation tools for the purpose of improving city breathability by appropriate integrated planning and design decisions was demonstrated. The presented approach, taking into account the city- and micro-scale interactions, should be used in current planning practice to preserve the historically developed ventilation systems.

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Joanna Badach dr inż. arch.
Jakub Szczepański prof. dr hab. inż. arch.
Wojciech Bonenberg
- Instytut Architektury i Planowania Przestrzennego, Wydział Architektury, Politechnika Poznańska
Jacek Gębicki dr hab. inż.
Lucyna Nyka prof. dr hab. inż. arch.

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Sustainability no. 14,
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2022

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Badach J., Szczepański J., Bonenberg W., Gębicki J., Nyka L.: Developing the Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure as a Tool for Urban Air Quality Management// Sustainability -Vol. 14,iss. 15 (2022), s.9688-

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