Gary Grant

Ecosystem Services Come to Town

Birmingham

November 2014

Horniman Museum Extension 1993

Convention on Biological Diversity introduced the ecosystem approach in 1992.

A holistic approach to land management. Working with nature to maintain healthy ecosystems that provide ecosystem services. Respect environmental limits. Protect and restore. UN Millennium Ecosystem

Assessment 2005

Ecosystem Services

Source: ASLA

• Hot• Dry• Pollution (Air, Water, Light)• Traffic• Noise• Disease• Crime• Governance• Unemployment• Housing• Food

City Challenges

Old Ideas

Designed to disperse miasmas

Old: Build - then dress with ornamental planting

New: Nature is the engineer wherever

possible

Multi-functional biodiverse green infrastructure networks

Make

Water Sensitive Cities

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Make Cities

Cooler

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Namba Park, Tokyo

Restore

Biodiversity

Olympic Legacy Housing Biodiverse Green Roof Specification

Roofs

HQ of Transport for London

London Underground Central Line Train Depot

Abbey Road

Lend Lease HQ, London

Cambridge Conservation Initiative University of Cambridge

Walls

Westfield Shopping Centre, Shepherds Bush, West London 2008

Rubens Hotel at the Palace, Victoria, London 2013

Rain Gardens

Drawn by: Kevin Perry

Drawn by: Kevin Perry

Vertical Rain Garden, social housing near Tower Bridge

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