ABSTRACT
Eckart Lange Demographers predict that by the year 2020 nearly 60 per cent of the world’s population will inhabit urban areas (Hall and Pfeiffer 2000; UNCHS 1996). Consequently, it is not surprising, that urban green space is increasingly being perceived as an important factor for sustainable development and human well-being. For a long time green spaces were just viewed as remnants or by-products of urban development (Selle 1999). Now, the British Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR 2001), for example, claims that strategic planning of parks and urban green spaces must be seen as paralleling and augmenting strategies for housing, community development, safety and economic regeneration.
