Green Oslo : Visions, Planning and Discourse (Paperback)

Introduction: Nature, Urbanism and Liveability; I: Visions, metaphors and patterns; 1: Biophilic Oslo; 2: Oslo: A City Framed by Forest; 3: Recollections of an Urban Green: The Frogner Park; 4: Oslo's Ulleval Garden City: An Experiment in Urbanism and Landscape Design; II: Policies, discourses and dilemmas; 5: Can Cities be Green?; 6: Shifts in Planning Ideology and Consequences for Residential Green Areas: A Historical Survey of Planning Concepts and Attitudes Towards Green Areas in Housing Estates in Oslo; 7: Green Suburbanisms: Differentiating the Greenness of Suburbs; 8: Driving Spaces and the Dilemma of the Green City; 9: Design with Nature: The Gardener's View; III: Plans, politics and outcomes; 10: How Green is Oslo? Urban Development, Green Policies and the Making of a Green Capital City; 11: Planning for a Green Oslo; 12: Planning a Compact Oslo