Urban meadow as seen at Willem-Alexanderpark, Utrecht, UT, NL
An urban meadow is a meadow which is influenced both by the environmental conditions of a city and the aesthetic and social needs of its residents. This differs from other meadow types as it is a highly engineered, novel, and site-specific designed landscape as well as an example of a nature-based solution (NBS).
Recently, urban areas have been thought of as potential biodiversity conservation sites. The shift from urban lawns, that are widely spread habitats in cities, to urban meadows is thought to promote greater refuges for plant and animal communities. Urban lawns require intensive management that puts the life there at risk of losing their habitat, especially due to the mowing frequency. Cutting that mowing frequency has demonstrated to induce a clear positive effect on the plant community's diversity, which allows the switch from urban lawns to urban meadows.[1]
Due to increased urbanization, the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2017 decreed that there is a need to protect all ecosystems due to climate change. The majority of the people that live in the urban regions of any country usually get their plant knowledge from visiting parks and or public green infrastructure. Local authorities have the duty of providing the green spaces for the public, but these departments are constantly suffering major budget cuts, making it more difficult for people to admire natural wildlife in the urban sectors and also impairing the local ecosystem. In line with the increasing acceptance of a "messier urban aesthetic", the perennial meadows can be seen as a more realistic alternative to the classic urban lawns as they would also be more cost-efficient to maintain. Factors that managers of urban spaces list as important to regard are:
Aesthetics and public reaction
Locational context
Human Resources and economic sustainability
Local politics
Communication
Biodiversity and existing habitat
Physical factors.[2]
^Chollet, Simon; Brabant, Charlotte; Tessier, Samson; Jung, Vincent (December 2018). "From urban lawns to urban meadows: Reduction of mowing frequency increases plant taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity". Landscape and Urban Planning. 180: 121–124. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.08.009. S2CID 92366337.
^Hoyle, Helen; Jorgensen, Anna; Warren, Philip; Dunnett, Nigel; Evans, Karl (July 2017). ""Not in their front yard" The opportunities and challenges of introducing perennial urban meadows: A local authority stakeholder perspective". Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 25: 139–149. doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2017.05.009.
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