Green infrastructure development opportunities in rural settlements

Authors

  • István Valánszki Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation
  • Debóra Virág Lechner Knowledge Center Non-profit ltd.
  • István Balázs Kiszter Urban Management Services Nonprofit Ltd., Szentendre
  • Zsombor Boromisza Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36249/60.3

Keywords:

Green infrastructure, Rural development, Hungarian countryside

Abstract

The term of green infrastructure (GI) became widespread all over the world especially in relation to settlement planning. Because of the complexity and multifunctionality of the concept it can be applied in regional and rural development as well. The European Union intends to integrate the concept of green infrastructure into several policy fields, strategies. In Hungary during the last years, many important GI related strategies have been elaborated. However, the already existing complex projects and case studies mainly focusing on cities or bigger towns, settlements. In our study, we would like to give an example of a complex GI planning and development in a case of a smaller settlement on the Hungarian countryside. Following the local government’s and stakeholders’ needs our goal was to give a practice-oriented proposal for GI development for the settlement implementing many suggestions from the formerly mentioned research reports and handbooks. We dealt with a typical rural settlement, called Kisszállás from the Great Hungarian Plain as case study. Our analyses focused on GI of the unbuilt and built-up areas of the settlement as well as the border zones between these two parts of the settlement. Our results showed many shortcomings related to the GI, however, we found also several untapped potentials. Based on these results, we developed the GI concept of Kisszállás. We targeted two main directions: 1, the professional maintenance, protection of existing GI system; 2, elaboration of conceptual development ideas focusing on two target areas. With these targets a significant improvement can be achieved in the green areas of the settlement. Our practice-oriented proposal-package represents an example how it is possible to implement the international and national policies, recommendations into local actions.

Author Biographies

  • István Valánszki , Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation

    associate professor
    Email: valanszki.istvan@uni-mate.hu

  • Debóra Virág, Lechner Knowledge Center Non-profit ltd.

    regional planning consultant
    Email: viragdebi@gmail.com

  • István Balázs Kiszter , Urban Management Services Nonprofit Ltd., Szentendre

    park maintenance coordinator
    Email: kiszter.istvan@szentendre.hu

  • Zsombor Boromisza, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Department of Landscape Protection and Reclamation

    associate professor
    Email: Boromisza.Zsombor@uni-mate.hu

References

Valánszki, István és Virág, Debóra és Kiszter, István Balázs és Boromisza, Zsombor (2021) Green infrastructure development opportunities in rural settlements = Zöldinfrastruktúra fejlesztési lehetőségek vidéki településeken. 4D TÁJÉPÍTÉSZETI ÉS KERTMŰVÉSZETI FOLYÓIRAT (60). pp. 34-49. ISSN 1787-6613

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2021-03-22

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Green infrastructure development opportunities in rural settlements. (2021). 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 60, 34-49. https://doi.org/10.36249/60.3

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