Kowarik, Ingo

Körner, Stefan

Wild Urban Woodlands.

New Perspectives for Urban Forestry.

Berlin

2005

9783540239123

354023912X

48952

Contents:

Preface
Ingo Kowarik, Stefan Körner

- Contents
- List of Contributors

Wild woodlands as a new component of urban forests
Wild urban woodlands: Towards a conceptual framework
Ingo Kowarik

New Perspectives for Urban Forests: Introducing the Wild Woodland
Cecil C. Konijnendijk

Attitudes towards wild woodlands
Attitudes towards Wilderness and Public Demands on Wilderness Areas
Nicole Bauer

Surrogate Nature or Wilderness? Social Perceptions and Notions of Nature in an Urban Context
Dieter Rink

Nature for People: The Importance of Green Spaces to Communities in the East Midlands of England
Simon Bell

Living in the Urban Wildwoods: A Case Study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK
Anna Jorgensen, James Hitchmough, Nigel Dunnett

Use and Perception of Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes in the Ruhr
Andreas Keil

People Working for Nature in the Urban Forest
Clive Davies

Ecological studies
Nature Returns to Abandoned Industrial Land: Monitoring Succession in Urban-Industrial Woodlands in the German Ruhr
Joachim Weiss, Wolfgang Burghardt, Peter Gausmann, Rita Haag, Henning Haeupler, Michael Hamann, Bertram Leder, Annette Schulte, Ingrid Stempelmann

Spontaneous Development of Peri-Urban Woodlands in Lignite Mining Areas of Eastern Germany
Sabine Tischew, Antje Lorenz

Ecological Networks for Bird Species in the Wintering Season Based on Urban Woodlands
Tomohiro Ichinose

Conceptual approaches and projects
Nature Conservation, Forestry, Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation: Perspectives for a Conceptual Alliance
Stefan Körner

Approaches for Developing Urban Forests from the Cultural Context of Landscapes in Japan
Ryohei Ono

Strategies between Intervening and Leaving Room
Lucia Grosse-Bächle

″New Wilderness″ as an Element of the Peri-Urban Landscape
Sigurd Karl Henne

Forests for Shrinking Cities? The Project ″Industrial Forests of the Ruhr″
Jörg Dettmar

Post-Industrial Nature in the Coal Mine of Göttelborn, Germany: The Integration of Ruderal Vegetation in the Conversion of a Brownfield
Justina Drexler

Natur-Park Südgelände: Linking Conservation and Recreation in an Abandoned Rail Yard in Berlin
Ingo Kowarik, Andreas Langer