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September 27th, 2010

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Green Belt

Objectives

In countries that have them, development in green belt areas is limited. The stated objectives of green belt policy are:

Protecting natural resources and semi natural environments;

Improving air quality in urban areas

Make sure that the urban population has access to the countryside, with consequent activities educational and recreational

Protect the unique character of rural communities that could be absorbed by expanding suburbs.

GBM has many benefits for people:

Hiking, camping, riding bike and the areas close to cities and towns.

Habitat for wild plants, animals and wildlife.

Air and water filter

Best areas of land use in neighboring cities.

The efficiency belts green differs by location and country. It can often be eroded by the city uses the rural fringe, and sometimes "jumps" of development in the green zone resulting in the creation of "satellite towns" which, although separate from the city by a green belt, operate more like suburban communities autonomous.

History

The Old Testament present a proposal for a green belt around Levite city in the Land of Israel to Moses Maimonides explains that the Greenbelt Plan Old Testament refers to all cities in ancient Israel. In the seventh century Muhammad created a primitive form of a green belt around Medina. He did so by prohibiting any additional extraction of trees in a strip 12 miles long through the city. In 1580, Elizabeth I of England banned the construction of new on a belt of 3 feet wide around the city of London in an attempt to stop the spread of plague. However, it was possible to buy exemptions reduce the effectiveness of the proclamation.

In modern times, politics belt Green was launched in the UK in the 1930 under pressure from the CPRE and various other organizations. There are fourteen green belt areas, the United Kingdom comprising 16,716 kilometers, or 13% of England and 164 miles from Scotland, for a detailed discussion of these issues, see the green belt (United Kingdom). Other notable examples are Ottawa Greenbelt and Greenbelt Golden Horseshoe greenbelt Ontario, Canada. Ottawa Greenbelt is 20,350 acres administered by the Capital Commission (NCC). The more general term in the U.S. is green space or green space, which can be a very small area like a park.

The concept of "green zone" has evolved in recent years to encompass not only "green" but also "Greenstructure" take account of all urban green spaces, an important aspect of sustainable development into the 21st century. COST Action C11 of the European Commission (European Cooperation in the field Scientific and Technical Research) carried out "case studies in Greenstructure Planning" involving 15 European countries.

An Act of Parliament of Sweden in 1994 reported a series of parks in Stockholm and the adjacent municipality of Solna to its north, a park "National City" call Ekoparken (the "ecological park, which extends into the park near the royal palaces and Make Ulriksdal in Solna, in the area to the ground Brunnsviken former royal hunting lodge in North and South Djurgården).

Comments

The difference in the effects interpretation and cons of the current green / motivation (for example, suggested by economist Tim Harford) is a green belt is created by residents to maintain the status quo of the bourgeoisie who already live in the area, and especially the advantage of homeowners who benefit from the shortage of housing (see up, "preserve the character of rural communities). In this interpretation, motivation and benefits of the green zone are well-meaning (public health, environment), but these benefits accrue only intended or claimed (for example, critics argue that only a small fraction of the population never set foot in the green belt recreational purposes, [citation needed], claiming that a green belt is not strongly causally related to clean air and water). Instead, the final outcome of the decision of a city's green belt is to maintain the status quo of the middle class [citation needed], exacerbating the housing prices by high concentration of demand in the area and stifling competition in general.

Another area of criticism is that, as a green belt does not extend indefinitely out of town, may stimulate growth areas much farther from the center if it had not existed, increasing urban sprawl. Frequently cited examples are the Ottawa suburb of Kanata and New Orleans, which are outside the green belt of the city, and are currently explosive growth phase (see Greenbelt (Ottawa)). This can lead to other problems that the residents of these areas still to get to work (if seeking employment the city) and limited access to public transport. This also means that people go to the Green Belt, an area not designed to cope with high levels transport. Not only the background of a green belt apparently reversed, but the green belt may exacerbate the problem and make the city quote [unsustainable needed].

There are many examples where the real effect of the green is to act as a land of highways and other roads ahead. Examples include sections of Highway 407 north Toronto and Hunting Club / Richmond st south of Ottawa. They were originally intended as such, or the result of a new administration to take advantage of the land that left by their predecessors is debatable.

In Britain, the obstacles to the expansion of the Greenbelt in urban areas have been strongly criticized by one of several major protectionist barriers to housing and economic relations with negative effects on supply, cost / price and quality of new housing. (Other obstacles include new taxes and housing development quasi-taxes, political discrimination against certain categories suppliers of new housing, consumer spending, housing and the product and controls on technical product development of housing, in particular, blocking construction of affordable housing through the use of new materials and innovative production technologies). Critics argue that green is the defeat of its own stated objective to save the landscape and open spaces. By preventing existing towns and cities to expand normally and biological, are the result of the evolution of housing in the area the situation is wider, the establishment beyond the green of new communities with a low building density, built its own infrastructure and other facilities, and greater reliance on the automobile, travel, etc. Meanwhile, the lovely urban green space and brownfield sites that best suits the industry and trade are lost in the existing cities, such as housing news increasingly is stuffed into them.

Notable green areas

Australia

Adelaide central business district is completely surrounded by parks of Adelaide as was originally planned in 1837.

Brazil

The So Paulo Biosphere Reserve Belt Green – GBBR, part of the Biosphere Reserve of the Atlantic Forest, was established in 1994 resulting from a grassroots movement that has gathered 150,000 signatures. It extends along 73 municipalities including Metro São Paulo and Santos region. With nearly 17,000 miles, is inhabited by about 23 million people, representing more than 10% of the total population over an area equivalent 2000th of Brazilian territory. There are over 6,000 miles of forests and other ecosystems Forest Reserve Atlantic, a planet's most threatened biomes. Besides the spectacular biological diversity, the ecosystems of the GBBR that useful ecosystem services.

Canada

Ottawa Greenbelt – The area around the capital city of Ottawa

Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe) is a group of 7,300 km of land that includes rural and agricultural lands surrounding the Greater Toronto and the Niagara Peninsula and parts of the Bruce Peninsula. The Most of the land is the Oak Ridges Moraine, an environmentally sensitive land is an important aquifer in the region and the Niagara Escarpment, Biosphere Reserve UNESCO. In an effort to limit urban sprawl has encroched in these lands, the Government of Ontario Act was created in the Green Belt in February 2005 to protect this green space for all future developments, except for agricultural use is limited.

British Columbia – Agricultural Land Reserve protects agricultural land in this mountainous province urban development, including the Vancouver area. This protection is strict and urban development of agricultural land is allowed only if no reasonable alternative. However, it does not protect non-agricultural land, especially hills, the hill leading to important and highly visible type skip expansion.

Dominican Republic

Greater Santo Domingo a Greenbelt (Greenbelt Santo Domingo) that surrounds the project consists of DN Botanical Garden, Mirador del Norte, the Mirador del Este and other parks around the area outside their municipalities. It greatly affected by uncontrolled urbanization, but other parts will not be affected.

Continental Europe

European Green Belt

Banjica Forest, Belgrade

Stockholm ecopark

German Green Belt

New Zealand

Dunedin Town Belt is one of the oldest green areas of the world, having been foreseen when the rapid growth of the city during the Otago gold rush of 1860's. The city is surrounded on three sides (The fourth is the port city).

The Philippines

Greenbelt Makati City is very green, but full of modern facilities and commercial structures.

South Korea

Seoul

United Kingdom

Main article: Green Belt (United Kingdom)

Green Belt Greater London (5.133 km)

The Green Belt in the northwest (2,578 kilometers)

Belt South and West Yorkshire Green (2,556 kilometers)

West Midlands Green Belt (2,315 km)

United States

U.S. states Oregon, Washington and Texas require cities to establish the limits to growth Urban (UGBs).

Notable American cities that have adopted UGBs include Portland, Oregon, Twin Cities, Minnesota, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Lexington, Kentucky, Miami-Dade.

More than 20 cities in the San Francisco Bay UGBs (see Greenbelt Alliance, an organization of Bay Area who was involved in setting these limits.)

Staten greenbelt Island

The Barton Creek Greenbelt

Ann Arbor, Michigan the acquisition of conservation easements on farmland around the city, without establishing urban growth boundary. Although the city's initial plan does not include the participation of the municipalities surrounding at least four counties participated directly or have launched their own efforts to protect agricultural land near the city.

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