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Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba Cities in Nigeria : An Ecosystem Services Approach (2023)

Adedeji, Joseph Adeniran.

Cham :Springer International Publishing :

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Keywords: Urban ecology (Biology). ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Landscape architecture. ; Culture Study and teaching. ; Ethnology. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Urban Ecology. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Landscape Architecture. ; Cultural Studies. ; Ethnography. ; Urban Sociology.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Ecosystem Services of Green Infrastructure – Towards a Theoretical Praxis -- Chapter 2. Ecological Urbanism in Yoruba Cities – An Ecosystem Services Survey -- Chapter 3. Ecosystem Services of Yoruba Home Greens – Indigenous Knowledge System for Wellbeing -- Chapter 4. Between Profanity and Sacredness – Global North and South Divide -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Evidence-based Design of Eco-cultural Cities.

Abstract: This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria. It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osogbo; Biological Garden and Park, Akure; Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos; Adekunle Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti; Muri Okunola Park, Lagos; and some institutional GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens, Ibadan; Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Botanical Garden, Abeokuta; and University of Lagos Lagoon Front Resort, Lagos, Nigeria. The study draws on theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green spaces, home gardens, and English-types of parks and gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism, colonial and post-colonial city planning. The book provides methods of achieving a form of modernized traditionalism as means of translating the IKS into design strategies for eco-cultural cities. The strategies are framework, model, and ethnographic design algorithms that are syntheses of the lived experiences of the key informants.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: XX, 193 p. 1 illus. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2023.

ISBN: 9783031346880

Series Statement: Cities and Nature,

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34688-0

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34688-0

DDC: 577.56

Language: English

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Reconstruction of Urban Forests : Post World War II and the Bosnian War (2021)

McBride, Joe R. ; Stilgenbauer, Judith. ; Lacan, Igor. ; [et al.]

Cham :Springer International Publishing :

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Keywords: Urban ecology (Biology). ; Cities and towns History. ; Human ecology History. ; Human geography. ; Geography. ; Urban Ecology. ; Urban History. ; Environmental History. ; Human Geography. ; Regional Geography.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Aerial bombing of cities during World War II -- 3. London -- 4. Coventry -- 5. Hamburg -- 6. Dresden -- 7. St. Petersburg -- 8. Stalingrad -- 9. Tokyo -- 10. Hiroshima -- 11. Conclusions.

Abstract: This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War and their reconstruction in the post-war years. After reviewing the general objectives and results of aerial bombing, the book explores the effects of bombing and the reconstruction of urban forest in London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, St. Petersburg, Stalingrad, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Sarajevo. Sarajevo stands out among these cities because the destruction of its urban forest was the result of citizens cutting down trees for firewood during the siege of the city. Most of the cities studied developed plans for reconstruction either during or after the war. These plans often addressed the planning and re-establishment of the urban forest that had been destroyed. Urban planners often planned for infrastructure improvements such as new boulevards and parks where trees would be planted. After the war many of these plans were abandoned or significantly modified. Cost, resistance by property owners, control of reconstruction by authorities outside of the cities, and the lack of planting stock were factors contributing to the failure of many of the plans. Exceptions occurred in Hiroshima and Coventry where the destroyed cities became symbols of national reconstruction and every effort was made to redesign the destroyed portions of these cities as memorials to those who lost their lives and to demonstrate the rebirth of the cities. In several of the cities studied individual citizens undertook on their own the replanting of street and park trees. Their ingenuity, hard work, and dedication to trees in their cities was remarkable. A common factor limiting efforts to replant street and park trees was the lack of nursery stock. During and immediately after the wars nearly all nurseries that had supplied trees for city planting had been converted to vegetable gardens to produce food for the urban populations. The slow return to the production of trees for urban planting was a common factor in the time required in many cities to restore their street and park trees. There are lessons to be learned by urban planner, urban forester, and landscape architects from this book that will be useful in the future destruction of urban forest either by natural or man-made causes.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: X, 106 p. 33 illus., 16 illus. in color. , online resource.

Edition: 1st ed. 2021.

ISBN: 9783030649388

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64938-8

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64938-8