Implementation of Green Infrastructure in Existing Urban Structures: Tracking Changes in Ferencváros, Budapest

Gabriel Silva Dantas, Ildikó Réka Báthoryné Nagy and Pedro Brizack Nogueira
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Gabriel Silva Dantas: Department of Urban Planning and Urban Green Infrastructure, Institute of Landscape Architecture Urban Planning and Garden Art, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
Ildikó Réka Báthoryné Nagy: Department of Urban Planning and Urban Green Infrastructure, Institute of Landscape Architecture Urban Planning and Garden Art, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
Pedro Brizack Nogueira: Department of Exact Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana 44036-900, Brazil

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-11

Abstract: Understanding the resilience of urban forms as a latent force that drives a place’s physical characterization and social cohesion is essential for defining successful adaptive processes of pre-existing urban fabrics. Budapest’s ninth district (Ferencváros) is an outstanding example of transforming a complex historical urban context, which underwent renovation strategies guided by maintaining and enhancing essential morphological elements. Courtyards have great relevance in conditioning the well-being in areas of high occupational density, especially in terms of accessibility to urban green infrastructure. In the case of Ferencváros, they were reframed to add new layers of use and to improve territorial integration by unifying smaller private courtyard unities into more extensive communal areas, creating a comprehensive urban green network, preserving urban heritage, and increasing green coverage. This study assesses how this recent re-urbanization phenomenon is related to political changes in a post-socialist city. The conjuncture found in Ferencváros is unique, yet it can be applied in other similar contexts. The methodology applied to this study is supervised classification for the quantitative analysis of remote-sensing image data with GIS software assistance—a procedure rarely applied in medium-scale urban analysis. However, it was verified to be precise and effective in tracking morphological changes. The preliminary results indicate a significant intensification in greenery in the urban pattern, especially in the core areas of the blocks: the courtyards. After the intervention, green areas became more predominant, cohesive, and articulated.

Keywords: courtyard; urban green infrastructure; urban pattern; urban renewal; supervised classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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