Implementing green infrastructure corridors in city’s leftover spaces to mitigate urban heat: The case of Prague, The Czech Republic

Bc. arch. Masoud Barikani

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This master’s thesis aims to demonstrate a solution for enhancing the landscape interconnectivity quality by defining new green-blue infrastructure corridors within fragmented undeveloped open spaces of Prague city. Hence, the establishment of this new layout, not only is essential for the ecosystem and biodiversity but also will manifest a continuous connection between urban and pre-urban vicinities to a broader extent. Due to the vast scale of fragmented undeveloped open spaces in Prague, there is potential to turn them into green-blue parcels, where it brings hope to observe varying recreational human activities alongside other achievements such as resiliency, sustainability, and biological reclamation and connectivity. This research implies some fundamental values of infrastructure (Natural, recreational, sustainable, and resilient values), which represent the functionality of the landscape within an urban area. Similarly, this study focuses on various aspects of green-blue corridors implementation and leads to the research questions: The general purpose of this master’s thesis will be: • How can green-blue corridors reduce heat, air, noise, and climate pollution? • How can a new green-blue infrastructure corridor connect various parcels within an urban area and pre-urban ones? • To concrete the importance of green-blue corridors and related infrastructure for a fragmented urban area and enhance interconnectivity between urban and pre-urban vicinities. • To demonstrate a piece of Prague city as a case of the fragmented parcel, then for the solution, come up with a detailed design for the mentioned site.

Keywords

Green infrastructure, Urban heat, Island heat, Leftover spaces, Prague city

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 24. 3. 2022

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Peter Kumble, Ph.D.
• Reader: Henry William Andrew Hanson IV.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Master programme / field:
Landscape Engineering / Landscape Planning