Green Infrastructure Planning in Germany and China A comparative approach to green space policy and planning structure

Research in Urbanism Series

Volumn 6, Issue , 2021, Pages 99-126

  Hu, Tinghao ^a   Chang, Jiang ^a   Syrbe, Ralf Uwe ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Green infrastructure; Green space; Planning system; Sino German

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102371494     PISSN: 18750192     EISSN: 18798217     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.7480/rius.6.96     Document Type: Article

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