Conference 2003
Greening the City:
Bringing Biodiversity Back
into the Urban Environment
Abstract:
Restoration
and Revegetation Projects in Urban Parks and Community Perceptions
of Personal Safety: Learning from Waitakere's Green Network
Tricia Austin (Department of Planning, University of Auckland)
One of the principal
objectives of Waitakere Citys Green Network Strategy is to encourage
more people to make greater use of the extensive range of natural
areas in the city, including the parks.
Restoration and revegetation
of the Green Network involving possibly extensive native plantings
has to address community concerns about actual safety and perceptions
of safety in the parks and reserves. In 1996, we undertook a study
of community perceptions of personal safety in several case study
parks in Waitakere City, identifying both positive and negative
aspects of landscape features and vegetation. Findings from this
study were used to develop safer design guidelines for revegetation
of the green network.
This presentation revisits the case study
parks and discusses implementation of the guidelines.
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