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High Island

2009-01-20T15:40:13Z

V.lolita: /* Landscape and/or urban context */

'''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'''
{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''High Island''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Neuilly-sur-Marne''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''France''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Urban ecology''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Lolita Voisin''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="48.855454" lon="2.530632" type="satellite" zoom="13" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
This area in the suburb of Paris was my project of diploma in the School of Higher Studies in Nature and Lanscape Architecture.
I made an alternative proposition to the project in process from the Direction of The Green Structures of the District (Seine-St-Denis 93)
[[Image:Plandiplome.gif]]
[[Image:DSCN2891.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:

[[Image:ILL-urb agri.jpg]]

[[Image:Blocgeologie.gif]]

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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</gallery>

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

----
[[Category:Case Study]]
[[Category:Urban ecology and Nature conservation]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Paris]]
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

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File:ILL-urb agri.jpg

2009-01-20T15:38:51Z

V.lolita:

High Island

2009-01-20T15:36:22Z

V.lolita: /* Author's perspective */

'''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'''
{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''High Island''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Neuilly-sur-Marne''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''France''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Urban ecology''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Lolita Voisin''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="48.855454" lon="2.530632" type="satellite" zoom="13" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
This area in the suburb of Paris was my project of diploma in the School of Higher Studies in Nature and Lanscape Architecture.
I made an alternative proposition to the project in process from the Direction of The Green Structures of the District (Seine-St-Denis 93)
[[Image:Plandiplome.gif]]
[[Image:DSCN2891.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:

[[Image:Blocgeologie.gif]]

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

----
[[Category:Case Study]]
[[Category:Urban ecology and Nature conservation]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Paris]]
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

About categories: You can add more categories by copying the tag and filling in your additional categories

High Island

2009-01-20T15:34:05Z

V.lolita: /* Author's perspective */

'''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'''
{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''High Island''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Neuilly-sur-Marne''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''France''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Urban ecology''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Lolita Voisin''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="48.855454" lon="2.530632" type="satellite" zoom="13" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?
[[Image:Plandiplome.gif]]
[[Image:DSCN2891.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:

[[Image:Blocgeologie.gif]]

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

----
[[Category:Case Study]]
[[Category:Urban ecology and Nature conservation]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Paris]]
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

About categories: You can add more categories by copying the tag and filling in your additional categories

File:Plandiplome.gif

2009-01-20T15:33:41Z

V.lolita:

High Island

2009-01-20T15:33:05Z

V.lolita: /* Landscape and/or urban context */

'''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'''
{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''High Island''
|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Neuilly-sur-Marne''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''France''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Urban ecology''
|-
| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Lolita Voisin''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the client''
|-
| '''Project costs''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the costs (if known)''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="48.855454" lon="2.530632" type="satellite" zoom="13" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?
[[Image:Plan diplome.jpg]]
[[Image:DSCN2891.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:

[[Image:Blocgeologie.gif]]

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Working Group Nature Conservation

2009-01-20T15:25:59Z

V.lolita: /* Synthesis */

== Case Studies of this working group ==
The list includes all case studies categorised in this group and the respective answers to the first question "Rationale:Why is this case study interesting?"

''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, do not edit this paragraph!''
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?
</DPL>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Core Questions of this Working Group ==

'''Core themes'''
(as identified on 3rd of December 2008):

*User group
*City
*Urban nature
*Interaction
*Water

'''Core questions'''

#What is the role of user groups? (Emel)
#What is the role of the city? (Virpi)
#How do urban and natural structures interact? (Urban nature interaction, Daliborka and Jovana)
#What is the role of water? (Barbara)

'''Notes:'''
* The names behind the questions identify those people that take up a kind of editor's responsibility for the questions. All group members are asked to integrate all questions into their case study report. The respective question editors will then compile the different answers and report back to the group plenary on December 19th.

* People who did not attend the session on 3rd of December may have additional proposals for core questions. Feel free to add these questions as proposals to the list above and discuss it via e-mail or using the discussion page.

* Please integrate the questions soon and try to deliver some draft answers before December 15th - otherwise it will become difficult to create a synthesis report for December 17th.

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== Synthesis of Core Questions ==

=== What is the role of user groups? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Emel

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of user groups?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]
=== What is the role of the city? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of the city?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Virpi

I was comparing case studies from the point of view of the city:

- How the nature area is located to the densely built city environment?

- Is the city affecting to the status of the nature area? Is the area protected or is there some uncertainty with the status and the future of the nature area?

There were a lot of similarities with the location of the case study areas: most of them were under strong influence of built environment and human in the city structure. Usually there were still quite good ecological connections left to the other surrounding nature areas. In many cases the ecological connection was water related: a river or a lake environment.

The closeness of the city was affecting to all of the case study areas: in most of the cases there exists for example recreational use, littering and pollution, which are affecting to the nature and landscape values of the area. There was no high pressure of housing to spread to the nature areas: the reason for that may be that the case study areas were usually not that favourable land for building.

The values of the nature areas were mostly recognised and the status of the area were usually somehow protected. In many cases national legislation and/or town planning is protecting the nature areas, but there might still be problems with inadequate supervision or lack of control or irresponsible use of the area. The recreational or economical use of the area is in many cases too strong and that causes disadvantages for organisms of nature.

In most of the cases it seems that the process of protecting and recognising nature area is still on its way and the authorities are still trying to find better balance between the protection and the use. Tools to prevent harms for nature caused by human are in many cases inadequate. As a conclusion one important method to save the nature area with values could probably be the combination of at least regionally recognised status by city plan and the appreciation of the area gained by informing people – the city has the most important role in that work (if the area is administered by the city, and in most of these case studies it probably is so). That combination would provide continuous, strong status of the area and responsible use of the area.

[[Image:THE_ROLE_OF_THE_CITY.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== How do urban and natural structures interact? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered

include = #How do urban and natural structures interact?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
'''Chinyi''' and (Daliborka and Jovana)

From Chinyi

A conflict can be always found in the relationship of urban and natural structure, either spatially or functionally.However, nearly all the projects here are trying to mitigate the confilit.

In the case of great wall island, We observed a asymmetric influence imposed by the natual structure to the urban area and vice versa. The natural structure release always beneficial influence to the city while the urban space affect the island mainly in a negative manner(pollution, reduced biodiversity).

Next come to the example of Westlake, '''Hangzhou''', who has a long-term close co-existence state with urban space. The peculiarity of the interaction here should be the phenomenon of symbiosis between natural and urban structure. Conflicts can be after all found but seldom change the balance between them.( To some extent, the aesthetic and recreational need of residents in Hangzhou, which finally result in the artificial measures taken to prevent the extinction of Westlake , counteract the negative effect imposed by human activities.

As for '''Lake Morgan''',the factor of urban structures extremely overstand the other elements in this fragile relationship.To fulfill the need of daily urban life, all natural structures have been sacrificed and seems to be hardly recalled.

Instead of exploiting more virgin territory, the reversible version in the case of '''Parque de Educacao'''.trys to integrate more space into natural domain. Since the living stress here is so fierce, people can sacrifice certain space to accommodate more natural elements, and on the contrary, push their life more close to the nature

Harmonious interactions were found both functionally and ecologically in the case of '''Vikki'''. A finger like morphology increases the length of edge, which in a matter of fact mitigate the conflict in between. Various of plants also boost the biodiversity.

Working group: Nature conservation

Core question '''How do urban and natural structures interact?''' (from Chinyi)
{| border="1" cellpadding="1"
!width="300"|CASE
!width="400"|2-D SPATIALLY
!width="400"|FUNCTIONALLY and NATURE CONSERVATIONALLY

|-valign="top"
|
*Great War Island
||
*The change from Natural to urban structures is designed in a gradient manner.
*the border of tourism zone was cutted evenly while the border to recreational zone and protection zone express a finger like form.
*Reference illustration(http://draco.hfwu.de/~wikienfk5/index.php/Image:ZONES_AND_BORDERS.jpg )
||
*The gradient arrangement make natural and urban structure gradually join together
*From tourism zone to natural protection zone, from open to close,the design creatively satisfy the need of fucntion and extensively decrease the danger the urban structure can probably made.
|-valign="top"
|
*Hangzhou
||
*No arbitrary border or territory was set to separate the natural and urban structure
*The urban structure and natural structure were merged in the whole “Westlake” area.
||
*Due to the historical reason, and the coexistence of nature and urban structure, the interaction between natural and urban structure are more itimate and harmonious than other case
|-valign="top"
|
*High island
||
*Natural and urban structures seperated due to historical reason
*the abyss between natural and urban structure are hardly overcome

|-valign="top"
|
*Lake Morgan
||
*Natural structure overlapped with urban structure
||
*Urban structure negatively affect the natural structure

|-valign="top"
|
*Parque de Educação Ambiental Professor Mello Barreto
||*Natural structure overlapped with urban structure
*restored area was integrated to the nature that surrounds the city of Rio de Janeiro.
||
*The natural structure was restored to some extend
*The urban structure was created for education and instruction purpose in order to ease its negative impact to natural structure
|-valign="top"
|
*River Liesing, Vienna
||
*Natural and urban structure interacted in a linear way (waterfront)
||
*The recreational purpose is maximize in the premise of natrual conservation

|}
From Daliborka and Jovana

[[Image:Urban_vs.natural_table.jpg|left|thumb]] [[Image:Graphic.jpg|center|thumb]]

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== What is the role of water? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Barbara
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of water?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Barbara
[[Image:Folie1.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie2.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie3b.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie4.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
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===What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ===
==== Anwers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Lolita & Chinyi

The relationship between nature and human can be always described either harmonious or conflicted.

The nature, exist as the fundamental base for human activity,always follow its own biological evolutional step in absence of the effect from human. However, since human beging initialized the dominant status among all the "organisms" live in the globe. The activities significantly affected the nature, either in a positive way, or reverserly, negative way.

In all case studies, attempts were made to soften the relationship between nature and human given that our era just located in the very moment, when nature system (ecological system) has been broken extensively. Anyway, since the close attachment of city, the city, the population explosion, the conflict between nature and human is more and more severe. We tried to use relativly mild measure,make it possible for the nature to survive its evolution, meanwhile also serve as a functional (recreational or productive) site for human being.

As a part of the process of relation between humans and Nature, we can see in all these case studies that we have three great ways of treating it in the landscape projects:
'''First''' we have the relation with the huge elements of nature: Lake, mountain, rivers, forests... (Great war Island, Hangzhou, High Island, Lake Morgan, River Liesing)
The answers in these cases are often first to use it as a resource item, then to include it as a part of the city and finally to restore its ecological value (due to the actual politics).

Often, we have the case of a natural element part of a urban process (High Island, Lake Mogan, Parque de Educaçao Ambiental Mello Barreto, River Liesing). These projects are often seen as recreational system, as well as a biodiversity item. We can see here the difficulties of the cohabitation, as reported by the Lake Mogan experience. High Island could be one of these not successful experience, as the politics's aims were too numerous (recreational, esthetical, ecological...)

Then we have the example of Viikki, which is the typical example of the Nature seen as an element of construction of the project. This modern way of built is a new form of the garden-cities, with an ecological politic. This conception of relation between nature and humans is full of technical solutions, presented as perfect answers to ecological problems. However, we still have few reports back from these experiences, and as an experience, we can't really say that is the miracle system to use every time.

In the case of Hangzhou,which the interaction between human and nature was comparatively detailed record,we can observe all kinds of measure taken to improve the relationship between city, human, and nature( lake).However, up to now,the traditional technique maintain the most fequently used measure in this project. The ultimate goal, in which people and nature can coexist without frequently amendation and restoration, remains pending.

So we see that the recent ecological politics can, on one hand, take part to re-structuralism of natural sites in urban process, with the difficulties about sharing uses and objectives. On the other hand, these politics are motors of natural planning in urban process, showed by the Eco-district system, as the one of Viikki, and use nature as an element of construction, seen as a recreational and ecological item.
[[Image:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature2.jpg]]

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="5">
Image:Evolution_of_Viikki_copy.jpg|Evolution of Viikki
Image:Evolution_of_great_war_island_copy.jpg|Evolution of Great War Island
Image:Evolution_of_highisland_copy.jpg|Evolution of High Island
</gallery>
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Working Group Minutes==

=== First Meeting ===

* [[Minutes First Meeting WG 2]], 3rd of December 2008
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Working Group Nature Conservation

2009-01-20T15:25:02Z

V.lolita: /* Synthesis */

== Case Studies of this working group ==
The list includes all case studies categorised in this group and the respective answers to the first question "Rationale:Why is this case study interesting?"

''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, do not edit this paragraph!''
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?
</DPL>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Core Questions of this Working Group ==

'''Core themes'''
(as identified on 3rd of December 2008):

*User group
*City
*Urban nature
*Interaction
*Water

'''Core questions'''

#What is the role of user groups? (Emel)
#What is the role of the city? (Virpi)
#How do urban and natural structures interact? (Urban nature interaction, Daliborka and Jovana)
#What is the role of water? (Barbara)

'''Notes:'''
* The names behind the questions identify those people that take up a kind of editor's responsibility for the questions. All group members are asked to integrate all questions into their case study report. The respective question editors will then compile the different answers and report back to the group plenary on December 19th.

* People who did not attend the session on 3rd of December may have additional proposals for core questions. Feel free to add these questions as proposals to the list above and discuss it via e-mail or using the discussion page.

* Please integrate the questions soon and try to deliver some draft answers before December 15th - otherwise it will become difficult to create a synthesis report for December 17th.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Synthesis of Core Questions ==

=== What is the role of user groups? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Emel

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of user groups?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]
=== What is the role of the city? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of the city?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Virpi

I was comparing case studies from the point of view of the city:

- How the nature area is located to the densely built city environment?

- Is the city affecting to the status of the nature area? Is the area protected or is there some uncertainty with the status and the future of the nature area?

There were a lot of similarities with the location of the case study areas: most of them were under strong influence of built environment and human in the city structure. Usually there were still quite good ecological connections left to the other surrounding nature areas. In many cases the ecological connection was water related: a river or a lake environment.

The closeness of the city was affecting to all of the case study areas: in most of the cases there exists for example recreational use, littering and pollution, which are affecting to the nature and landscape values of the area. There was no high pressure of housing to spread to the nature areas: the reason for that may be that the case study areas were usually not that favourable land for building.

The values of the nature areas were mostly recognised and the status of the area were usually somehow protected. In many cases national legislation and/or town planning is protecting the nature areas, but there might still be problems with inadequate supervision or lack of control or irresponsible use of the area. The recreational or economical use of the area is in many cases too strong and that causes disadvantages for organisms of nature.

In most of the cases it seems that the process of protecting and recognising nature area is still on its way and the authorities are still trying to find better balance between the protection and the use. Tools to prevent harms for nature caused by human are in many cases inadequate. As a conclusion one important method to save the nature area with values could probably be the combination of at least regionally recognised status by city plan and the appreciation of the area gained by informing people – the city has the most important role in that work (if the area is administered by the city, and in most of these case studies it probably is so). That combination would provide continuous, strong status of the area and responsible use of the area.

[[Image:THE_ROLE_OF_THE_CITY.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== How do urban and natural structures interact? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered

include = #How do urban and natural structures interact?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
'''Chinyi''' and (Daliborka and Jovana)

From Chinyi

A conflict can be always found in the relationship of urban and natural structure, either spatially or functionally.However, nearly all the projects here are trying to mitigate the confilit.

In the case of great wall island, We observed a asymmetric influence imposed by the natual structure to the urban area and vice versa. The natural structure release always beneficial influence to the city while the urban space affect the island mainly in a negative manner(pollution, reduced biodiversity).

Next come to the example of Westlake, '''Hangzhou''', who has a long-term close co-existence state with urban space. The peculiarity of the interaction here should be the phenomenon of symbiosis between natural and urban structure. Conflicts can be after all found but seldom change the balance between them.( To some extent, the aesthetic and recreational need of residents in Hangzhou, which finally result in the artificial measures taken to prevent the extinction of Westlake , counteract the negative effect imposed by human activities.

As for '''Lake Morgan''',the factor of urban structures extremely overstand the other elements in this fragile relationship.To fulfill the need of daily urban life, all natural structures have been sacrificed and seems to be hardly recalled.

Instead of exploiting more virgin territory, the reversible version in the case of '''Parque de Educacao'''.trys to integrate more space into natural domain. Since the living stress here is so fierce, people can sacrifice certain space to accommodate more natural elements, and on the contrary, push their life more close to the nature

Harmonious interactions were found both functionally and ecologically in the case of '''Vikki'''. A finger like morphology increases the length of edge, which in a matter of fact mitigate the conflict in between. Various of plants also boost the biodiversity.

Working group: Nature conservation

Core question '''How do urban and natural structures interact?''' (from Chinyi)
{| border="1" cellpadding="1"
!width="300"|CASE
!width="400"|2-D SPATIALLY
!width="400"|FUNCTIONALLY and NATURE CONSERVATIONALLY

|-valign="top"
|
*Great War Island
||
*The change from Natural to urban structures is designed in a gradient manner.
*the border of tourism zone was cutted evenly while the border to recreational zone and protection zone express a finger like form.
*Reference illustration(http://draco.hfwu.de/~wikienfk5/index.php/Image:ZONES_AND_BORDERS.jpg )
||
*The gradient arrangement make natural and urban structure gradually join together
*From tourism zone to natural protection zone, from open to close,the design creatively satisfy the need of fucntion and extensively decrease the danger the urban structure can probably made.
|-valign="top"
|
*Hangzhou
||
*No arbitrary border or territory was set to separate the natural and urban structure
*The urban structure and natural structure were merged in the whole “Westlake” area.
||
*Due to the historical reason, and the coexistence of nature and urban structure, the interaction between natural and urban structure are more itimate and harmonious than other case
|-valign="top"
|
*High island
||
*Natural and urban structures seperated due to historical reason
*the abyss between natural and urban structure are hardly overcome

|-valign="top"
|
*Lake Morgan
||
*Natural structure overlapped with urban structure
||
*Urban structure negatively affect the natural structure

|-valign="top"
|
*Parque de Educação Ambiental Professor Mello Barreto
||*Natural structure overlapped with urban structure
*restored area was integrated to the nature that surrounds the city of Rio de Janeiro.
||
*The natural structure was restored to some extend
*The urban structure was created for education and instruction purpose in order to ease its negative impact to natural structure
|-valign="top"
|
*River Liesing, Vienna
||
*Natural and urban structure interacted in a linear way (waterfront)
||
*The recreational purpose is maximize in the premise of natrual conservation

|}
From Daliborka and Jovana

[[Image:Urban_vs.natural_table.jpg|left|thumb]] [[Image:Graphic.jpg|center|thumb]]

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== What is the role of water? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Barbara
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of water?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Barbara
[[Image:Folie1.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie2.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie3b.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[Image:Folie4.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

===What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ===
==== Anwers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Lolita & Chinyi
The relationship between nature and human can be always described either harmonious or conflicted.

The nature, exist as the fundamental base for human activity,always follow its own biological evolutional step in absence of the effect from human. However, since human beging initialized the dominant status among all the "organisms" live in the globe. The activities significantly affected the nature, either in a positive way, or reverserly, negative way.

In all case studies, attempts were made to soften the relationship between nature and human given that our era just located in the very moment, when nature system (ecological system) has been broken extensively. Anyway, since the close attachment of city, the city, the population explosion, the conflict between nature and human is more and more severe. We tried to use relativly mild measure,make it possible for the nature to survive its evolution, meanwhile also serve as a functional (recreational or productive) site for human being.

As a part of the process of relation between humans and Nature, we can see in all these case studies that we have three great ways of treating it in the landscape projects:
'''First''' we have the relation with the huge elements of nature: Lake, mountain, rivers, forests... (Great war Island, Hangzhou, High Island, Lake Morgan, River Liesing)
The answers in these cases are often first to use it as a resource item, then to include it as a part of the city and finally to restore its ecological value (due to the actual politics).

Often, we have the case of a natural element part of a urban process (High Island, Lake Mogan, Parque de Educaçao Ambiental Mello Barreto, River Liesing). These projects are often seen as recreational system, as well as a biodiversity item. We can see here the difficulties of the cohabitation, as reported by the Lake Mogan experience. High Island could be one of these not successful experience, as the politics's aims were too numerous (recreational, esthetical, ecological...)

Then we have the example of Viikki, which is the typical example of the Nature seen as an element of construction of the project. This modern way of built is a new form of the garden-cities, with an ecological politic. This conception of relation between nature and humans is full of technical solutions, presented as perfect answers to ecological problems. However, we still have few reports back from these experiences, and as an experience, we can't really say that is the miracle system to use every time.

In the case of Hangzhou,which the interaction between human and nature was comparatively detailed record,we can observe all kinds of measure taken to improve the relationship between city, human, and nature( lake).However, up to now,the traditional technique maintain the most fequently used measure in this project. The ultimate goal, in which people and nature can coexist without frequently amendation and restoration, remains pending.

So we see that the recent ecological politics can, on one hand, take part to re-structuralism of natural sites in urban process, with the difficulties about sharing uses and objectives. On the other hand, these politics are motors of natural planning in urban process, showed by the Eco-district system, as the one of Viikki, and use nature as an element of construction, seen as a recreational and ecological item.
[[Image:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature2.jpg]]

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="5">
Image:Evolution_of_Viikki_copy.jpg|Evolution of Viikki
Image:Evolution_of_great_war_island_copy.jpg|Evolution of Great War Island
Image:Evolution_of_highisland_copy.jpg|Evolution of High Island
</gallery>
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Working Group Minutes==

=== First Meeting ===

* [[Minutes First Meeting WG 2]], 3rd of December 2008
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

File:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature.jpg

2009-01-20T15:23:53Z

V.lolita: uploaded a new version of "Image:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature.jpg"

File:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature2.jpg

2009-01-20T15:22:04Z

V.lolita:

High Island

2009-01-14T16:52:39Z

V.lolita: /* Author's perspective */

'''15km east from Paris' Center: An educative program about the relation between humans and nature'''
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|-
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|-
| '''Place''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Neuilly-sur-Marne''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''France''
|-
| '''Topic''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Urban ecology''
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| '''Author(s)''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Lolita Voisin''
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</googlemap>
|}

=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?
[[Image:Plan diplome.jpg]]
[[Image:DSCN2891.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

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=== References ===
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2009-01-14T16:51:59Z

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V.lolita:

High Island

2009-01-14T16:49:10Z

V.lolita: /* Author's perspective */

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=== Rationale: Why is this case study interesting? ===
*The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors. The answers found by the technical teams are very interesting. However, we can continue to debate about the future of a natural site forgotten from the humans for a long time.

* It explains the debate unstable that interests all the people who are debating of the urban form including part of nature in the future.

=== Author's perspective ===
* What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study?
[[Image:Plan diplome.jpg]]

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension in housing of Paris.

Everybody will admit that the parisian suburb is most of the time hardly urbanised, with large roads, hard traffic, high buildings and lack of activities of proximity. Neuilly-sur-Marne, the town nearby High Island, is typically one of these hard programms of quick urbanisation in the suburb of Paris. Then, the contrast between the salvage High Island and the town of Neuilly-sur-Marne is apparent: nature and human beings as they are capable to over react in a process.

The question of discovering a new time the High Isalnd, as suggested by the departemental programm of Green Spaces (93), raises to me the very actual and important debate of the relation that humans and nature had, have today, and will maybe try to have in the future. That's what I try to lead during my one year of Diploma in Blois, France (ENSNP)

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

=== History ===
*How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

Illustration: Table or time line

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Questions Working Group Nature Conservation / Water ===
==== What is the role of user groups? ====
==== What is the role of the city? ====
==== How do urban and natural structures interact? ====
==== What is the role of water? ====

==== What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ====

'''2000 from Department of Seine-Saint-Denis (93)'''

The High Island project in Neuilly-sur-Marne, next to Paris, is interesting as basis of reflexion around the debate of integration of nature in urban sectors.
Hihg Island is a part of the natural site of the Marne river. It's an alluvionnary site, which has been forgotten from humans for 200 years. Before that, it was a cultivated part of an old property called "Ville Evrard". The construction of a canal cut this part of land from the other and tranforms it into an "Island". Therefore, this site took back is natural evolution, as a humid forest, part of the process of inondation with which the Marne river is familiar. During all this time of coming back ti nature, the rest of the land was very quickly urbanised as the extension of housing of Paris.
High Islan is between two cities which have since the biginning of the operations of housing around Paris, turn back from the river and its natural sites. As part of the territoy, High Island is a way to meet again these cities and the river and its functions.
However, the project that the Seine Saint Denis départment has chosen, using a lot the recreation potentiel of the site, may have long term issues that are not very interesting about the river wild life. Its evolution is to loo at, and maybe be an example of debate around what contact we want between Nature and Human!

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Future development directions ===
* How is the area/project/plan evolving?
* Are there any future goals?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Peer reviews or critique ===
* Has the area/ project/plan been reviewed by academic or professional reviewers?
* What were their main evaluations?
Pleas add references, quotes...

=== Points of success and limitations ===
*What do you see as the main points of success and limitations of the area/project/plan?
Illustration: Summary table

=== What can be generalized from this case study? ===
*Are there any important theoretical insights?
Short statement plus background notes

=== Which research questions does it generate? ===
Short statement plus background notes

=== Image Gallery ===

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=== References ===
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File:Plan diplome.jpg

2009-01-14T16:48:11Z

V.lolita:

Working Group Nature Conservation

2009-01-14T16:45:30Z

V.lolita: /* Synthesis */

== Case Studies of this working group ==
The list includes all case studies categorised in this group and the respective answers to the first question "Rationale:Why is this case study interesting?"

''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, do not edit this paragraph!''
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?
</DPL>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Core Questions of this Working Group ==

'''Core themes'''
(as identified on 3rd of December 2008):

*User group
*City
*Urban nature
*Interaction
*Water

'''Core questions'''

#What is the role of user groups? (Emel)
#What is the role of the city? (Virpi)
#How do urban and natural structures interact? (Urban nature interaction, Daliborka and Jovana)
#What is the role of water? (Barbara)

'''Notes:'''
* The names behind the questions identify those people that take up a kind of editor's responsibility for the questions. All group members are asked to integrate all questions into their case study report. The respective question editors will then compile the different answers and report back to the group plenary on December 19th.

* People who did not attend the session on 3rd of December may have additional proposals for core questions. Feel free to add these questions as proposals to the list above and discuss it via e-mail or using the discussion page.

* Please integrate the questions soon and try to deliver some draft answers before December 15th - otherwise it will become difficult to create a synthesis report for December 17th.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Synthesis of Core Questions ==

=== What is the role of user groups? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Emel

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of user groups?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]
=== What is the role of the city? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of the city?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Virpi

I was comparing case studies from the point of view of the city:

- How the nature area is located to the densely built city environment?

- Is the city affecting to the status of the nature area? Is the area protected or is there some uncertainty with the status and the future of the nature area?

There were a lot of similarities with the location of the case study areas: most of them were under strong influence of built environment and human in the city structure. Usually there were still quite good ecological connections left to the other surrounding nature areas. In many cases the ecological connection was water related: a river or a lake environment.

The closeness of the city was affecting to all of the case study areas: in most of the cases there exists for example recreational use, littering and pollution, which are affecting to the nature and landscape values of the area. There was no high pressure of housing to spread to the nature areas: the reason for that may be that the case study areas were usually not that favourable land for building.

The values of the nature areas were mostly recognised and the status of the area were usually somehow protected. In many cases national legislation and/or town planning is protecting the nature areas, but there might still be problems with inadequate supervision or lack of control or irresponsible use of the area. The recreational or economical use of the area is in many cases too strong and that causes disadvantages for organisms of nature.

In most of the cases it seems that the process of protecting and recognising nature area is still on its way and the authorities are still trying to find better balance between the protection and the use. Tools to prevent harms for nature caused by human are in many cases inadequate. As a conclusion one important method to save the nature area with values could probably be the combination of at least regionally recognised status by city plan and the appreciation of the area gained by informing people – the city has the most important role in that work (if the area is administered by the city, and in most of these case studies it probably is so). That combination would provide continuous, strong status of the area and responsible use of the area.

[[Image:THE_ROLE_OF_THE_CITY.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== How do urban and natural structures interact? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered

include = #How do urban and natural structures interact?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Chinyi and '''Daliborka and Jovana'''

A conflict can be always found in the relationship of urban and natural structure, either spatially or functionally.

In the case of great wall island, We observed a asymmetric influence imposed by the natual structure to the urban area and vice versa. The natural structure release always beneficial influence to the city while the urban space affect the island mainly in a negative manner(pollution, reduced biodiversity).

Next come to the example of Westlake, '''Hangzhou''', who has a long-term close co-existence state with urban space. The peculiarity of the interaction here should be the phenomenon of symbiosis between natural and urban structure. Conflicts can be after all found but seldom change the balance between them.( To some extent, the aesthetic and recreational need of residents in Hangzhou, which finally result in the artificial measures taken to prevent the extinction of Westlake , counteract the negative effect imposed by human activities.

As for '''Lake Morgan''',the factor of urban structures extremely overstand the other elements in this fragile relationship.To fulfill the need of daily urban life, all natural structures have been sacrificed and seems to be hardly recalled.

Harmonious interactions were found both functionally and ecologically in the case of '''Vikki'''. A finger like morphology increases the length of edge, which in a matter of fact mitigate the conflict in between. Various of plants also boost the biodiversity.
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== What is the role of water? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Barbara
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of water?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Barbara
[[Image:Synthesis_RoleofwaterV2.png]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

===What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ===
==== Anwers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Lolita & Chinyi
The relationship between nature and human can be always described either harmonious or conflicted.

The nature, exist as the fundamental base for human activity,always follow its own biological evolutional step in absence of the effect from human. However, since human beging initialized the dominant status among all the "organisms" live in the globe. The activities significantly affected the nature, either in a positive way, or reverserly, negative way.

In all case studies, attempts were made to soften the relationship between nature and human given that our era just located in the very moment, when nature system (ecological system) has been broken extensively. Anyway, since the close attachment of city, the city, the population explosion, the conflict between nature and human is more and more severe. We tried to use relativly mild measure,make it possible for the nature to survive its evolution, meanwhile also serve as a functional (recreational or productive) site for human being.

As a part of the process of relation between humans and Nature, we can see in all these case studies that we have three great ways of treating it in the landscape projects:
'''First''' we have the relation with the huge elements of nature: Lake, mountain, rivers, forests... (Great war Island, Hangzhou, High Island, Lake Morgan, River Liesing)
The answers in these cases are often first to use it as a resource item, then to include it as a part of the city and finally to restore its ecological value (due to the actual politics).

Often, we have the case of a natural element part of a urban process (High Island, Lake Mogan, Parque de Educaçao Ambiental Mello Barreto, River Liesing). These projects are often seen as recreational system, as well as a biodiversity item. We can see here the difficulties of the cohabitation, as reported by the Lake Mogan experience. High Island could be one of these not successful experience, as the politics's aims were too numerous (recreational, esthetical, ecological...)

Then we have the example of Viikki, which is the typical example of the Nature seen as an element of construction of the project. This modern way of built is a new form of the garden-cities, with an ecological politic. This conception of relation between nature and humans is full of technical solutions, presented as perfect answers to ecological problems. However, we still have few reports back from these experiences, and as an experience, we can't really say that is the miracle system to use every time.

In the case of Hangzhou,which the interaction between human and nature was comparatively detailed record,we can observe all kinds of measure taken to improve the relationship between city, human, and nature( lake).However, up to now,the traditional technique maintain the most fequently used measure in this project. The ultimate goal, in which people and nature can coexist without frequently amendation and restoration, remains pending.

So we see that the recent ecological politics can, on one hand, take part to re-structuralism of natural sites in urban process, with the difficulties about sharing uses and objectives. On the other hand, these politics are motors of natural planning in urban process, showed by the Eco-district system, as the one of Viikki, and use nature as an element of construction, seen as a recreational and ecological item.
[[Image:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature.jpg]]

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="5">
Image:Evolution_of_Viikki_copy.jpg|Evolution of Viikki
Image:Evolution_of_great_war_island_copy.jpg|Evolution of Great War Island
Image:Evolution_of_highisland_copy.jpg|Evolution of High Island
</gallery>
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Working Group Minutes==

=== First Meeting ===

* [[Minutes First Meeting WG 2]], 3rd of December 2008
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

Working Group Nature Conservation

2009-01-14T16:44:06Z

V.lolita: /* Synthesis */

== Case Studies of this working group ==
The list includes all case studies categorised in this group and the respective answers to the first question "Rationale:Why is this case study interesting?"

''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, do not edit this paragraph!''
[[Category:Working Group Nature Conservation]]

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?
</DPL>

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Core Questions of this Working Group ==

'''Core themes'''
(as identified on 3rd of December 2008):

*User group
*City
*Urban nature
*Interaction
*Water

'''Core questions'''

#What is the role of user groups? (Emel)
#What is the role of the city? (Virpi)
#How do urban and natural structures interact? (Urban nature interaction, Daliborka and Jovana)
#What is the role of water? (Barbara)

'''Notes:'''
* The names behind the questions identify those people that take up a kind of editor's responsibility for the questions. All group members are asked to integrate all questions into their case study report. The respective question editors will then compile the different answers and report back to the group plenary on December 19th.

* People who did not attend the session on 3rd of December may have additional proposals for core questions. Feel free to add these questions as proposals to the list above and discuss it via e-mail or using the discussion page.

* Please integrate the questions soon and try to deliver some draft answers before December 15th - otherwise it will become difficult to create a synthesis report for December 17th.

[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

== Synthesis of Core Questions ==

=== What is the role of user groups? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Emel

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of user groups?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]
=== What is the role of the city? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====

<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of the city?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Virpi

I was comparing case studies from the point of view of the city:

- How the nature area is located to the densely built city environment?

- Is the city affecting to the status of the nature area? Is the area protected or is there some uncertainty with the status and the future of the nature area?

There were a lot of similarities with the location of the case study areas: most of them were under strong influence of built environment and human in the city structure. Usually there were still quite good ecological connections left to the other surrounding nature areas. In many cases the ecological connection was water related: a river or a lake environment.

The closeness of the city was affecting to all of the case study areas: in most of the cases there exists for example recreational use, littering and pollution, which are affecting to the nature and landscape values of the area. There was no high pressure of housing to spread to the nature areas: the reason for that may be that the case study areas were usually not that favourable land for building.

The values of the nature areas were mostly recognised and the status of the area were usually somehow protected. In many cases national legislation and/or town planning is protecting the nature areas, but there might still be problems with inadequate supervision or lack of control or irresponsible use of the area. The recreational or economical use of the area is in many cases too strong and that causes disadvantages for organisms of nature.

In most of the cases it seems that the process of protecting and recognising nature area is still on its way and the authorities are still trying to find better balance between the protection and the use. Tools to prevent harms for nature caused by human are in many cases inadequate. As a conclusion one important method to save the nature area with values could probably be the combination of at least regionally recognised status by city plan and the appreciation of the area gained by informing people – the city has the most important role in that work (if the area is administered by the city, and in most of these case studies it probably is so). That combination would provide continuous, strong status of the area and responsible use of the area.

[[Image:THE_ROLE_OF_THE_CITY.jpg|thumb|none|400px]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== How do urban and natural structures interact? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered

include = #How do urban and natural structures interact?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Chinyi and '''Daliborka and Jovana'''

A conflict can be always found in the relationship of urban and natural structure, either spatially or functionally.

In the case of great wall island, We observed a asymmetric influence imposed by the natual structure to the urban area and vice versa. The natural structure release always beneficial influence to the city while the urban space affect the island mainly in a negative manner(pollution, reduced biodiversity).

Next come to the example of Westlake, '''Hangzhou''', who has a long-term close co-existence state with urban space. The peculiarity of the interaction here should be the phenomenon of symbiosis between natural and urban structure. Conflicts can be after all found but seldom change the balance between them.( To some extent, the aesthetic and recreational need of residents in Hangzhou, which finally result in the artificial measures taken to prevent the extinction of Westlake , counteract the negative effect imposed by human activities.

As for '''Lake Morgan''',the factor of urban structures extremely overstand the other elements in this fragile relationship.To fulfill the need of daily urban life, all natural structures have been sacrificed and seems to be hardly recalled.

Harmonious interactions were found both functionally and ecologically in the case of '''Vikki'''. A finger like morphology increases the length of edge, which in a matter of fact mitigate the conflict in between. Various of plants also boost the biodiversity.
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

=== What is the role of water? ===
==== Answers of the Case Studies ====
Barbara
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the role of water?
</DPL>
==== Synthesis ====
Barbara
[[Image:Synthesis_RoleofwaterV2.png]]
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

===What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature? ===
==== Anwers of the Case Studies ====
<DPL>
category=Working Group Nature Conservation
mode=ordered
include = #What is the evolution of the urban relation between humans and nature?
</DPL>

==== Synthesis ====
Lolita & Chinyi
The relationship between nature and human can be always described either harmonious or conflicted.

The nature, exist as the fundamental base for human activity,always follow its own biological evolutional step in absence of the effect from human. However, since human beging initialized the dominant status among all the "organisms" live in the globe. The activities significantly affected the nature, either in a positive way, or reverserly, negative way.

In all case studies, attempts were made to soften the relationship between nature and human given that our era just located in the very moment, when nature system (ecological system) has been broken extensively. Anyway, since the close attachment of city, the city, the population explosion, the conflict between nature and human is more and more severe. We tried to use relativly mild measure,make it possible for the nature to survive its evolution, meanwhile also serve as a functional (recreational or productive) site for human being.

As a part of the process of relation between humans and Nature, we can see in all these case studies that we have three great ways of treating it in the landscape projects:
'''First''' we have the relation with the huge elements of nature: Lake, mountain, rivers, forests... (Great war Island, Hangzhou, High Island, Lake Morgan, River Liesing)
The answers in these cases are often first to use it as a resource item, then to include it as a part of the city and finally to restore its ecological value (due to the actual politics).

Often, we have the case of a natural element part of a urban process (High Island, Lake Mogan, Parque de Educaçao Ambiental Mello Barreto, River Liesing). These projects are often seen as recreational system, as well as a biodiversity item. We can see here the difficulties of the cohabitation, as reported by the Lake Mogan experience. High Island could be one of these not successful experience, as the politics's aims were too numerous (recreational, esthetical, ecological...)

Then we have the example of Viikki, which is the typical example of the Nature seen as an element of construction of the project. This modern way of built is a new form of the garden-cities, with an ecological politic. This conception of relation between nature and humans is full of technical solutions, presented as perfect answers to ecological problems. However, we still have few reports back from these experiences, and as an experience, we can't really say that is the miracle system to use every time.

In the case of Hangzhou,which the interaction between human and nature was comparatively detailed record,we can observe all kinds of measure taken to improve the relationship between city, human, and nature( lake).However, up to now,the traditional technique maintain the most fequently used measure in this project. The ultimate goal, in which people and nature can coexist without frequently amendation and restoration, remains pending.

So we see that the recent ecological politics can, on one hand, take part to re-structuralism of natural sites in urban process, with the difficulties about sharing uses and objectives. On the other hand, these politics are motors of natural planning in urban process, showed by the Eco-district system, as the one of Viikki, and use nature as an element of construction, seen as a recreational and ecological item.

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="5">
Image:Evolution_of_Viikki_copy.jpg|Evolution of Viikki
Image:Evolution_of_great_war_island_copy.jpg|Evolution of Great War Island
Image:Evolution_of_highisland_copy.jpg|Evolution of High Island
</gallery>
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]
Image:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature.jpg

== Working Group Minutes==

=== First Meeting ===

* [[Minutes First Meeting WG 2]], 3rd of December 2008
[[#toc|'''Back to top''']]

File:Nature Concervation Core Question HumanNature.jpg

2009-01-14T16:41:43Z

V.lolita:

Working Group Nature Conservation

2008-12-15T14:54:25Z