Research Workshop: Greening of Cities; Auckland, New Zealand; 30 November 3 December 2012

研究研讨会：城市绿化；

• 批准号: 1249672
• 负责人: Patrick Miller
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1249672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Workshop; Greening; Cities; Auckland

In 1950, less than 30 percent of the world's population lived in cities. This number grew to 47 percent in the year 2000 (2.8 billion people), and it is expected to grow to 60 percent by the year 2025. The functional infrastructure services needed to accommodate this growth is staggering. If nothing is done, the potential effect on natural ecosystems could be catastrophic, both locally and globally. To avoid this will require the expertise of multiple disciplines (engineering, ecology, landscape architecture and urban planning) and new ways of thinking about urban infrastructure. The Research Workshop, Greening of Cities, will bring together experts from multiple fields, across the globe. They will identify and prioritize the range of issues that need to be addressed and assess the sufficiency of existing knowledge needed to find solutions. They will identify green technologies, such as green roofs, green walls, constructed wetlands, greenways, green streets and others that hold promise for solving these problems. Workshop attendees will identify ways of quantifying the potential functionality of Green Infrastructure, such as cleaning water, climate modification and filtering air, as well as the multiple values that come from these services, including improving human health, reducing energy consumption, moving people and increasing sustainable economic development. The attendees will also identify important intangible values that come from green urban infrastructure, such as increased wildlife diversity, visual quality and other contributors to quality of urban life. The implications of these issues will be examined at both a local and global scale. In order to understand the potential for incorporating Green Infrastructure into cities, workshop participants will examine selected case examples from around the world. The result of the workshop will be a set of research needs and strategies that will include collaborative research efforts that will provide the knowledge needed to better understand how green infrastructure can benefit the built environment, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and its communities. Cities provide important social and economic opportunities for people, which is why cities around the world are growing at a phenomenal rate. With such growth, we need to ensure that cities are healthy places to live, providing clean water, transportation and energy through urban infrastructure while ensuring people have clean air and healthy places to live and work. In order to achieve affordable, sustainable infrastructure, scientists and engineers are looking at green technologies and regenerative systems, such as green roofs, green walls, constructed wetlands and greenways. For these new, green technologies to be adopted by urban planners and others who build cities, experts must be able to demonstrate the value of these new technologies and how they can be implemented, both through research as well as practical experience. The purpose of this workshop is to gather experts from different fields around the world to examine the problems cities face, to identify potential green infrastructure solutions and to identify the research needed to demonstrate their value.

1950年，不到30％的世界人口居住在城市中。 这个数字在2000年增长到47％（28亿人），预计到2025年将增长到60％。适应这种增长所需的功能基础设施服务令人震惊。 如果什么也没做，对自然生态系统的潜在影响可能是灾难性的，无论是在本地还是全球。 为了避免这种情况，将需要多个学科（工程，生态，景观建筑和城市规划）以及有关城市基础设施的新思维方式的专业知识。 城市绿化的研究研讨会将使来自全球多个领域的专家聚集在一起。 他们将确定并确定需要解决的问题的范围，并评估找到解决方案所需的现有知识的充分性。 他们将确定绿色技术，例如绿色屋顶，绿色墙壁，建造的湿地，绿道，绿色街道以及其他有望解决这些问题的希望。 研讨会的参与者将确定量化绿色基础设施潜在功能的方法，例如清洁水，气候修改和过滤空气，以及这些服务带来的多种价值，包括改善人类健康，减少能源消耗，降低人们的能源，迁移人们以及增加可持续的经济发展。 与会者还将确定来自绿色城市基础设施的重要无形价值，例如提高野生动植物的多样性，视觉质量和其他城市生活质量的贡献者。 这些问题的含义将在本地和全球范围内进行检查。 为了了解将绿色基础设施纳入城市的潜力，研讨会参与者将研究来自世界各地的选定案例示例。 研讨会的结果将是一系列研究需求和策略，其中包括协作研究工作，这些工作将提供所需的知识，以更好地了解绿色基础设施如何使建筑环境受益于数量和定性及其社区。 城市为人们提供重要的社会和经济机会，这就是为什么世界各地的城市以惊人的速度增长的原因。 随着这种增长，我们需要确保城市是健康的居住地，通过城市基础设施提供清洁的水，运输和能源，同时确保人们拥有清洁的空气和健康的生活和工作场所。为了实现负担得起的可持续基础设施，科学家和工程师正在研究绿色技术和再生系统，例如绿色屋顶，绿色墙壁，建造的湿地和绿道。 对于这些新的，绿色的技术将由城市规划师和建造城市的其他人采用，专家必须能够通过研究和实践经验来证明这些新技术的价值以及如何实施它们。 该研讨会的目的是收集来自世界各地的专家，以研究城市面临的问题，以确定潜在的绿色基础设施解决方案，并确定证明其价值所需的研究。