Engagement with urban soils part II: starting points for sustainable urban planning guidelines derived from Maya soil connectivity

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dc.contributor.authorVis, Benjamin N.
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Daniel L.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T15:14:35Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T15:14:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-15
dc.description.abstractUsing the Precolumbian lowland Maya model of urban soil connectivity discussed in Part I, we review how soil connectivity can transition into urban planning policy and, by extension, could ultimately become codified as vantages and guidelines for urban design. In Maya agro-urban landscapes, the interspersion of open and green space with construction and paving provides edges (or interfaces) between sealed and unsealed soils at which the potential for soil connectivity manifests. These edges create an undeniable opportunity for urban planning to determine methods, guidelines, and conditions that can enhance soil connectivity. We argue that adequate attention to soils in urban sustainability goals would counteract misconceptions about the compact city paradigm and compensation for soil sealing in urban practice. Through preserving and increasing urban soil availability, proximity, and accessibility, advisory policies can stimulate shared values and everyday behaviours that reinforce the responsible and productive use of urban soils. Such urban planning can enable and encourage widespread participation in urban soil management. To promote policymaking on urban soils, we assess the importance and challenges of using urban green space as a proxy for the presence of urban soils. Our review suggests that urban green space offers high potential for use in urban planning to develop habit architectures that nurture soil-oriented pro-environmental behaviour. However, we also acknowledge the need for consistent and systematic data on urban soils that match sustainable urban development concepts to assist the effective transition of soil connectivity into urban planning codifications. Formulating adequate soil-oriented planning guidelines will require translating empirical insights into policy applications. To this end, we propose methods for enhancing our understanding and ability to monitor urban soil connectivity, including onsite surveys of land-use and bottom-up experience of soils, the mapping of the edges between sealed and unsealed soils, and using landscape ecological scales of analysis. In conclusion, we position soil care and connectivity as a primary task for urban planning and design and digest our findings and empirical vantages into concrete starting points devised as instruments to support urban planning in achieving soil codification.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationVis BN, Evans DL, Graham E. (2023) Engagement with urban soils part II: starting points for sustainable urban planning guidelines derived from Maya soil connectivity. Land, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2023, Article number 891en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2073-445X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land12040891
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19506
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherMDPIen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectsoil connectivityen_UK
dc.subjecturban soilsen_UK
dc.subjecturban planningen_UK
dc.subjectapplied archaeologyen_UK
dc.subjectPrecolumbian Mayaen_UK
dc.subjectMaya urbanismen_UK
dc.subjecturban sustainable developmenten_UK
dc.subjectbuilt environmenten_UK
dc.subjectsoil codificationen_UK
dc.titleEngagement with urban soils part II: starting points for sustainable urban planning guidelines derived from Maya soil connectivityen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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