Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 5.5:
Categories of green space in Warsaw in
2001 Warsaw covers 495 sq. km, with a population
of over 1.6 million and a population density of 3258
persons per sq. km. Open spaces cover over 50 per
cent of the urban area (e.g. agricultural land, open
space and open water), with residential areas
comprising 27 per cent and open green space at
36.3 per cent of the open space. Warsaw is
managed by eleven local authorities and an
independent capital city council.
Category
%
Parks 17
Forest 36.4
Residential green space 9.8
Allotment garden 8.1
Botanical garden and zoo 0.4
Cemeteries 2.5
Promenades and squares 1.0
Greenery associated with the transport system 6.7
Other greenery 18.2
Source:
developed from Szulczewska and Kaliszuk (2003)
It also highlights the international adoption of such principles, even in the former Eastern
bloc. Similarly, in the planning for open space in Papakura District, Auckland, New
Zealand, the planners stated that in the new millennium, planning for urban recreation
would need to develop a system which could accommodate
• active leisure areas (e.g. playing fields, sports centres)
• passive leisure areas (e.g. picnic sites, walking/ horse riding trails, cycle routes, grassed
areas)
• conservation areas (e.g. nature reserves, nature trails)
• agricultural areas (e.g. allotments and market gardening)
• informal areas (e.g. street reserves and public spaces such as reserves).
(After Pentz 2002)
There are not dissimilar to the categories identified in the ODPM (2002) report discussed
earlier. In the development of an open space system (see Moran 2001 for the example of
Geelong, Australia) Pentz (2002) pointed to the use of three spatial concepts around
which conservation zone could be incorporated:
• cores
• corridors, to provide connectivity between elements in the system
• buffers (e.g. sports fields) between densely developed areas and cores.
