TY - JOUR

T1 - How are urban green spaces and residential development related? A synopsis of multi-perspective analyses for Leipzig, Germany

AU - Schwarz, Nina

AU - Haase, Annegret

AU - Haase, Dagmar

AU - Kabisch, Nadja

AU - Kabisch, Sigrun

AU - Liebelt, Veronika

AU - Rink, Dieter

AU - Strohbach, Michael W.

AU - Welz, Juliane

AU - Wolff, Manuel

N1 - Funding information: M.W.S. acknowledges funding by the program “Science for Sustainable Development” of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (METAPOLIS, grant no. ZN3121). D.H., N.K., M.W.S. and N.S. acknowledge funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme for research (EC FP6 Contract No. 036921). V.L. gratefully acknowledges the support of iDiv funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG–FZT 118, 202548816), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (marEEShift, grant no. 01LC1826A), ESCALATE. This research was partly supported by the project ENABLE, funded through the 2015–2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, German Aeronautics and Space Research Centre, National Science Centre (Poland), The Research Council of Norway, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. J.W., A.H., and S.K. acknowledge funding by the City of Leipzig. N.K.’s work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Grant/Award Number: 01LN1705A; Environmental-Health Interactions in Cities (GreenEquityHEALTH)—Challenges for Human Well-Being under Global Changes. M.W.S. acknowledges funding by the program “Science for Sustainable Development” of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (METAPOLIS, grant no. ZN3121). D.H., N.K., M.W.S. and N.S. acknowledge funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme for research (EC FP6 Contract No. 036921). V.L. gratefully acknowledges the support of iDiv funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG–FZT 118, 202548816), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (marEEShift, grant no. 01LC1826A), ESCALATE. This research was partly supported by the project ENABLE, funded through the 2015–2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, German Aeronautics and Space Research Centre, National Science Centre (Poland), The Research Council of Norway, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. J.W., A.H., and S.K. acknowledge funding by the City of Leipzig. N.K.’s work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Grant/Award Number: 01LN1705A; Environmental-Health Interactions in Cities (GreenEquityHEALTH)—Challenges for Human Well-Being under Global Changes.

PY - 2021/6

Y1 - 2021/6

N2 - The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is com-plex: 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.

AB - The relationship between urban green spaces (UGS) and residential development is com-plex: 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.

KW - Multi-method approach

KW - Residential development

KW - Urban development

KW - Urban green

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108711618&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/land10060630

DO - 10.3390/land10060630

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85108711618

VL - 10

JO - Land

JF - Land

IS - 6

M1 - 630

ER -