Technology and Ecology in a Green Mesh: A Healthy Alliance for the Smart City

Chivas, J; Bryant, M; Melsom, J

Technology and Ecology in a Green Mesh: A Healthy Alliance for the Smart City

Chivas, J Bryant, M Melsom, J

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Citation:: The Empathic City An Urban Health and Wellbeing Perspective, 2023, pp. 193-217
Issue Date:: 2023-07-04

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dc.contributor.author	Chivas, J
dc.contributor.author	Bryant, M
dc.contributor.author	Melsom, J https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6703-6743
dc.contributor.editor	Biloria, N
dc.contributor.editor	Sebag, G
dc.contributor.editor	Robertson, H
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-24T05:20:56Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-24T05:20:56Z
dc.date.issued	2023-07-04
dc.identifier.citation	The Empathic City An Urban Health and Wellbeing Perspective, 2023, pp. 193-217
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dc.identifier.isbn	9783031328398
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dc.description.abstract	In response to the related issues of natural habitat fragmentation and human disconnection from nature, we have been investigating an urban planning concept we call a ‘Green Mesh’, which is a fine-grained and continuous green network that could be retrofitted into the extensively built-up areas between a city’s skeletal grid of parklands and street vegetation. This chapter explains our research for a citizen-driven ‘platform’ which integrates ecology in the technological and social enablers of the Green Mesh. The platform’s components connect new 3D spatial technologies such as photogrammetry spatial data that simulate microclimate conditions in detailed accuracy, field-based socio-spatial studies that document human narratives and programmatic requirements of everyday activity in suburban streets and yards, and vegetation typology matrices that collate plant species characteristics according to urban conditions and ecosystem’s function. Tested on a suburban case study, the Green Mesh Platform offers the potential to supplement traditional urban planning by increasing designers’ capacity to analyse the complexities of urban landscape with new technologies; and it facilitates smart city individuals’ and communities’ ecological activism in contributing to, and taking responsibility for the implementation of a network of novel and healthy ecosystems running between the public lands and through private lands of a city. The Green Mesh Platform might thereby catalyse the Green Mesh, which would benefit habitat regeneration and biodiversity and, simultaneously, improve community well-being by increasing everyday human contact with natural environments.
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dc.title	Technology and Ecology in a Green Mesh: A Healthy Alliance for the Smart City
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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Abstract:

In response to the related issues of natural habitat fragmentation and human disconnection from nature, we have been investigating an urban planning concept we call a ‘Green Mesh’, which is a fine-grained and continuous green network that could be retrofitted into the extensively built-up areas between a city’s skeletal grid of parklands and street vegetation. This chapter explains our research for a citizen-driven ‘platform’ which integrates ecology in the technological and social enablers of the Green Mesh. The platform’s components connect new 3D spatial technologies such as photogrammetry spatial data that simulate microclimate conditions in detailed accuracy, field-based socio-spatial studies that document human narratives and programmatic requirements of everyday activity in suburban streets and yards, and vegetation typology matrices that collate plant species characteristics according to urban conditions and ecosystem’s function. Tested on a suburban case study, the Green Mesh Platform offers the potential to supplement traditional urban planning by increasing designers’ capacity to analyse the complexities of urban landscape with new technologies; and it facilitates smart city individuals’ and communities’ ecological activism in contributing to, and taking responsibility for the implementation of a network of novel and healthy ecosystems running between the public lands and through private lands of a city. The Green Mesh Platform might thereby catalyse the Green Mesh, which would benefit habitat regeneration and biodiversity and, simultaneously, improve community well-being by increasing everyday human contact with natural environments.

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