TY - BOOK

T1 - The Role of Green Space in City Branding

T2 - An Urban Governance Perspective

AU - Gulsrud, Natalie Marie

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The overall purpose of the presented PhD study is to better understand how biophysically greenelements of urban green infrastructure (UGI) are currently incorporated into and impacted by greencity branding campaigns at the city level and beyond. This is achieved by examining the impacts ofthree diverse green city branding cases in Denmark, Singapore and the European Union. The casestudies are analyzed and operationalized through an urban governance theoretical frameworklinking changes in policy practices such as urban greening to broader structural changes in societysuch as neoliberalism and globalization. Urban political ecology is applied as a critical lens.Findings indicate that green city branding discourses impact UGI governance arrangements both atthe on-the-ground level of exploring concrete policy problems and their causes and solutions as wellas at the meta-level in terms of framing ideas about the relationships between state, market and civilsociety. Study findings contribute to urban green space management practices in Denmark andabroad as well as to the literature on urban green space governance.

AB - The overall purpose of the presented PhD study is to better understand how biophysically greenelements of urban green infrastructure (UGI) are currently incorporated into and impacted by greencity branding campaigns at the city level and beyond. This is achieved by examining the impacts ofthree diverse green city branding cases in Denmark, Singapore and the European Union. The casestudies are analyzed and operationalized through an urban governance theoretical frameworklinking changes in policy practices such as urban greening to broader structural changes in societysuch as neoliberalism and globalization. Urban political ecology is applied as a critical lens.Findings indicate that green city branding discourses impact UGI governance arrangements both atthe on-the-ground level of exploring concrete policy problems and their causes and solutions as wellas at the meta-level in terms of framing ideas about the relationships between state, market and civilsociety. Study findings contribute to urban green space management practices in Denmark andabroad as well as to the literature on urban green space governance.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Urban Forestry Urban Greening

KW - Governance

KW - Urban Green Infrastructure

KW - Urban Political Ecology

UR - https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122138476005763

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - The Role of Green Space in City Branding

PB - Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

ER -