This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria. It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osogbo; Oranmiyan Grove, Ile-Ife; Freedom Park, Lagos; Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos; Agodi Gardens, Ibadan; Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti; Biological Gardens, Akure; Fasoranti Parks, Akure, and some institutional GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens and Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Botanical Gardens. The study draws on theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green spaces, home greens, and English types of parks and gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism, colonial and post-colonial city planning. weiterlesen