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- Title
Designing a Green Belt for Xalapa City: Veracruz under current Mexican policies.
- Authors
Benítez, Griselda; Alvarado-Castillo, Gerardo; Palestina, René A.; Cortés, Mara; Williams, Kari; Acosta, Israel
- Abstract
Green Belts are often proposed as an alternative for containing urban sprawl, restoring ecological processes, recovering connectivity, and maintaining the multi-functionality that cities need. This article analyzes a proposed Green Belt for Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. It is spatially examined through GIS analysis and designed on the notion of Garden City as a strip to circumvent the city. Existing conditions are also discussed. Two existing conservation initiatives are compared to the proposed Green Belt strategy. Its establishment requires agreements between Xalapa and surrounding municipalities. The proposed strategy brings local government and citizens together to preserve the remaining vegetation and thus promote the well-being of local inhabitants.
- Subjects
XALAPA (Mexico); GREENBELTS; RESTORATION ecology; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; CLOUD forests
- Publication
Regions & Cohesion, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3, p94
- ISSN
2152-906X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/reco.2018.080306