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Pocket parks: Their contribution to the sustainable development of the urban web

Symeonidis Dimitrios

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The present study attempts to investigate and evaluate the way in which small-scale urban green spaces, the "Pocket Parks", as green infrastructures of urban landscape, can contribute substantially to the viability, sustainability and cohesion of dense urban web.In the first step, considering the Pocket Parks as areas of intervention of urban design and planning, it attempts to establish connection with the landscape, the natural and the urban environment. Thus, reference is made to the principles of Landscape Urbanism, which examines the connection of nature and the city, creating the urban landscape.In the next step, this study focuses on the importance, form, function and categories of green in the urban fabric, introducing the concept of Pocket Parks, as a basic category of urban green and as components of the green network. In addition, there is a description of their environmental, social, psychological, economic, humanitarian, cultural and aesthetic benefits. Furthermore, a reference is made to the general design guidelines for the creation of Pocket Parks.Finally, there is an extensive analysis and description of 8 selected examples of Pocket Parks, from the international experience, distributed in 4 categories. These include the leisure, the entrance areas, the game and the green corridors with a multifunctional and flexible character. The analysis of the examples includes the urban study and illustration of the networks and the uses that exist around them, as well as the description of the central design idea, the use of planting, the urban equipment and the results brought by the Pocket Parks in each area.

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