Analysis of Green Infrastructure in Lodz, Poland

Abstract

The paper focuses on the analysis of biologically active areas of the city in terms applicable to the understanding of green infrastructure in their spatial and urban planning references. The paper is an expanded account of the writers’ research on green infrastructure resources of the city of Lodz, concerning the spatial identification of green infrastructure and its diversity in spatial arrangement, extracting elements of its structure, as well as their functional diversity in relation to urban zones of the city. The research described in this paper also associated with an attempt to characterize elements of green infrastructure in chosen urban zones. The motivation to undertake the research reported in this paper was to look for ways to improve the analyzing and description of the green infrastructure of a city for the purpose of development planning. As a result of this paper, contributions to the analysis of urban green infrastructure were indicated. Reliable identification of morphological structure (diversity construction) of the current state of green infrastructure is crucial in the process of its modeling and determines the future direction of its development in the urban-industrial agglomerations.