The Green Mesh: A Community-activated Green Network Enabled Through New Spatial Technologies

Chivas, Jeremy A.

The Green Mesh: A Community-activated Green Network Enabled Through New Spatial Technologies

Chivas, Jeremy A.

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dc.contributor.author	Chivas, Jeremy A.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-13T03:13:09Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-13T03:13:09Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/156185
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.description.abstract	Habitat fragmentation is a global environmental issue resulting from land-use change and urban development, driven by anthropocentric ideologies and humanity's desire to ‘conquer’ nature. Contemporary landscape architecture practice has sought to address this issue within our cities through the implementation of greenways, linear parklands, vegetation corridors, and metropolitan green strategies. However, barriers to the implementation of these solutions limit their overall capacity for holistic ecological integration, including a confinement to public lands only, and the continued use of imprecise, traditional spatial analysis tools. This dissertation seeks to address these limitations through the concept for a novel green network, ‘The Green Mesh’ - a finer-grain, community-activated green network, enabled through new 3D spatial technologies. The Green Mesh adopts a community participatory approach for the dispersal of ecological implementations throughout private lands, with a unique methodological approach that focuses on resolving three major challenges to this concept; how to overcome the spatial disconnect between traditional GIS data and ground-level nuances; how new 3D spatial technologies may be used remotely to derive an accurate environmental baseline for smart and scalable ecological implementation, and finally; how to translate this methodology into an accessible platform for residents and community members to facilitate ecologically responsive implementation.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.format	Thesis (MArch)
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dc.title	The Green Mesh: A Community-activated Green Network Enabled Through New Spatial Technologies	en_US.UTF-8
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Abstract:

Habitat fragmentation is a global environmental issue resulting from land-use change and urban development, driven by anthropocentric ideologies and humanity's desire to ‘conquer’ nature. Contemporary landscape architecture practice has sought to address this issue within our cities through the implementation of greenways, linear parklands, vegetation corridors, and metropolitan green strategies. However, barriers to the implementation of these solutions limit their overall capacity for holistic ecological integration, including a confinement to public lands only, and the continued use of imprecise, traditional spatial analysis tools. This dissertation seeks to address these limitations through the concept for a novel green network, ‘The Green Mesh’ - a finer-grain, community-activated green network, enabled through new 3D spatial technologies. The Green Mesh adopts a community participatory approach for the dispersal of ecological implementations throughout private lands, with a unique methodological approach that focuses on resolving three major challenges to this concept; how to overcome the spatial disconnect between traditional GIS data and ground-level nuances; how new 3D spatial technologies may be used remotely to derive an accurate environmental baseline for smart and scalable ecological implementation, and finally; how to translate this methodology into an accessible platform for residents and community members to facilitate ecologically responsive implementation.

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