Cities surrounded by green space - Page 3

Dimethyltryptamine · March 22nd, 2011, 10:17 AM

Adelaide, Australia - Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people. Light's design set out Adelaide in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parkland.

Wikipedia

steppenwolf · March 22nd, 2011, 12:00 PM

Adelaide is fascinating! - I'd echo earlier comments by saying that a second green ring should have been established further out to limit sprawl and encourage more high density urbanity.

Here's a very very dry graphic showing 'greenbelts' where development is limited, around UK cities:

alemza · March 22nd, 2011, 12:21 PM

Mendoza, Argentina.

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IanNunes · March 30th, 2011, 10:27 AM

Belém - Amazon - Brazil

elculo · March 30th, 2011, 01:46 PM

Frankfurt has the GrünGürtel ("green belt") surrounding the city, it is protected by law since 1991:
http://www.umweltfrankfurt.de/en/fra...rts-greenbelt/

And the city center is also surrounded by a park:
link to google maps

exciter · April 6th, 2011, 12:44 PM

Madrid

HD · April 6th, 2011, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TooFar

Are there any other cities in the world with a similar layout to Adelaide? The CDB/Downtown of Adelaide is completely ringed by parklands, it provides a nice buffer between the city and the suburbs.

frankfurt comes to my mind. there is a ring of parkland around the city center. since the creation of the ring, however, the city center has expanded beyond the borders.

Quote:

Originally Posted by elculo

Frankfurt has the GrünGürtel ("green belt") surrounding the city, it is protected by law since 1991:
http://www.umweltfrankfurt.de/en/fra...rts-greenbelt/

And the city center is also surrounded by a park:
link to google maps

the picture above shows the layout of the parks around the city center and the location of the city walls during different time periods in the past (they don't exist today anymore).

arquitekto · April 30th, 2011, 12:11 PM

Makati, Philippines

Taguig, Philippines
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Ecological · April 30th, 2011, 12:48 PM

Birmingham UK gets quite a bit of flack for being a concrete city within the country itself and Europe. However ... Birmingham is situated on a sandstone ridge and has huge amounts of greenary.

image hosted on flickr

image hosted on flickr

Geography · May 6th, 2011, 09:42 AM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Portland, Oregon. Their greenbelt is a famous in urban-planning (and much criticized for making the city extremely expensive to live in).

[IMG]http://i56.************/11siav6.jpg[/IMG]

ethlaw · May 21st, 2011, 08:57 AM

Cape Town, South Africa: where I'm going to study abroad for a semester. The center of Cape Town is surrounded by mountains, creating the "city bowl"

URBANITY REPORTS · May 21st, 2011, 09:29 AM

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***Manila-X*** · May 24th, 2011, 10:00 AM

If there is one notable city that is surrounded by green spaces, it would be

Atlanta, Georgia

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RobertoBarrich26 · June 12th, 2011, 06:26 PM

Cuiabá / Mato Grosso / Brazil - Green City /

Mãe Bonifácia Park
Largest urban forest reserve in the Cerrado of Brazil.

image hosted on flickr

@Oendel Veiga

@Secom-MT

@LDR

@leo

@Rafael.Ramos

@Secom-MT

@Rai Reis

image hosted on flickr

@Foto e Prosa

@Leandro Magalhães

Lord David · June 12th, 2011, 06:51 PM

Hmm no mention of Melbourne, the garden city from the garden State.

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pkalein · August 4th, 2011, 07:13 AM

TVN · February 14th, 2012, 07:59 PM

Vejle, Denmark
The fjord to the right, th big vally to the left and Grejs-vally to the north, forrest and steep hills all around down town and the tidal area to the left:

Grejs Vally

Grejs Vally in the background

Bird reservation

The building: "The Wave" (Bølgen) and the fjord

A whale payed a visit summer 2011

castermaild55 · February 15th, 2012, 03:15 PM

most Japanese cities are surrounded by green space. especially rice field

Sendai

Rinchinlhumbe · February 15th, 2012, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TVN

Grejs Vally

Interesting. Never thought Denmark is so mountainous

Rocky031 · February 15th, 2012, 06:17 PM

City Osijek,Croatia.City with most parks and trees in Croatia.Around old baroque fortress Tvrđa,on place where there used to be trenches and walls are parks.On the left side of the river (city is located mostly on right side) is nature park Kopački rit,one of the biggest swamps in this part of Europe.On the other sides of city are fields.

http://preglednik.arkod.hr/ARKOD-Web...8&map_sc=57142

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steppenwolf Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London Posts: 757 Likes (Received): 9	Adelaide is fascinating! - I'd echo earlier comments by saying that a second green ring should have been established further out to limit sprawl and encourage more high density urbanity. Here's a very very dry graphic showing 'greenbelts' where development is limited, around UK cities:

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