Abstract
Modern urban green infrastructures are following globalisation trends and contribute to homogenization at all levels of green areas from the master plan to the finest scale. We discuss the place and role of three principal urban living spaces, the “skeleton” of green infrastructures: lawns, green walls and green roofs. This “trio” of modern GI elements provide significant ecosystem services, it contributes to biodiversity and social values; and have environmental and economic impact. The main goal of our approach to sustainable GI is to introduce a new landscape architecture style – biodiversinesque – as an alternative to the existing global homogenised picturesque-gardenesque. This new approach will combine the best achievements of innovative and alternative landscape design solutions (biodiverse lawns, pictorial meadows, walls and green roofs) and implement them on three major scales: city, intermediate neighborhood and the small biotope level.
Highlights
The modern globalized world faces the process of homogenization of cultures and environments
Modern urban green infrastructures (GI) in many European cities comprise a random combination of green areas: parks, gardens, parkways, cemeteries, abandoned wastelands and connected urban corridors such as street, road, and railway wedges and riversides
Designers even of small street or flowerbed biotopes ought to use “global” plant material from the same nurseries and similar hard material, which have resulted in creating similar urban habitats globally (Ignatieva, Stewart 2009) (Fig. 1)
Summary
The modern globalized world faces the process of homogenization of cultures and environments. Urban GI can potentially contribute to a number of these services related to recreation, promotion of human health, pollination of garden fruits and vegetables, water and nutrient management, carbon sequestration, social cohesion and sustainable economic development This has started to be recognized among scientists and politicians (Müller, Werner 2010). The main goal of this article is to discuss the place and role of three principal urban living spaces, the “skeleton” of GI: lawns, green walls and green roofs This “trio” of modern GI elements provides significant ecosystem services, it contributes to biodiversity and b social values; environmental and economic effects. Ecosystem services, which are processes in ecosystems that are of value or benefit to human society can be classified as provisioning, regulating, support-
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