Abstract
The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is complex: UGS have positive and negative immediate impacts on residents’ well-being, residential location choice, housing, and land markets. Property owners and real estate agents might consider how prospective clients perceive UGS and act accordingly, while urban planners influence UGS location and management as well as aim at steering the built environment. Typically, studies focus on one of these perspectives at a time. Here, we provide a synopsis of results from studies, taking different perspectives for a single case study: Leipzig, Germany. We summarise and discuss the findings of eight studies on UGS and residential development. In detail, these studies focus on spatial pattern analysis, hedonic pricing analysis, mixed-methods studies on experts’ perspectives, surveys, and choice experiments exploring residents’ perceptions of UGS. We reflect on the feasibility of deriving a synthesis out of these independent studies and to what extent context matters. We conclude that both triangulating of data and methods, as well as long-term and context-sensitive studies are needed to explain the interlinkages between UGS and residential development and their context dependency.
Highlights
Green spaces are a vital part of cities
We try to answer the following two research questions: 1. What are the relationships between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential developments in Leipzig beyond different disciplinary boundaries? 2
We addressed the complementarity of the studies along three poles: synthesising the main results of each study and reflecting on the potential matches in time and space of the chosen analysis resulted in key relationships of the elements (UGS and socio-demographic attributes)
Summary
Many types of urban green spaces (UGS) exist, i.e., green locations in cities which provide opportunities for recreation or relaxation, or for just being there or passing through. This encompasses diverse UGS such as parks, cemeteries, urban forests, gardens, street trees, allotments, or agricultural land [1]. Second-tier cities in Europe represent the backbone of the large urban system. They are not capital cities, have more than 200,000 inhabitants, and operate as hubs for the economy, education, culture, and mobility [3]. In Leipzig, one of the large UGS is the floodplain forest that runs from northwest to southeast through the city, passing its central parts as well
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