Showing papers in "Landscape and Urban Planning in 2000"

TL;DR: In this paper, the association of biodiversity and urban ecosystems has usually concerned the impact of urbanization on biodiversity, however, biodiversity concepts can easily be applied to the urban ecosystem itself.

TL;DR: The largest increases in house prices due to environmental factors are found for houses with a garden facing water, which is connected to a sizeable lake, and attractive landscape types were shown to attract a premium over less attractive environmental settings.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study on urban hydrology is presented to characterize aspects of the metabolism of the urban system, and environmental targets and standards to promote sustainable development are proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated if, how and when knowledge about the climate is used in the urban planning process and found that climate issues often have a low impact on the planning process in practice, despite the fact that the urban landscape creates a climate which influences human comfort, air quality and energy consumption.

TL;DR: In this article, a natural environment, a small forest, was used by a kindergarten as a supplement to their traditional outdoor playground and the impact such a landscape might have on children's motor development was investigated through an experimental study on kindergarten children aged 5, 6 and 7 years of age.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how scenario methods can be used to enable managers to better understand landscape and larger scale forces for change and to work with stakeholders at these levels and improve adaptiveness not only by responding to changes, but also by anticipating them.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that most people used greenway trails for recreation but that trails differed in user types and activities based on location and policy, and that those who used trails for transportation scored trails as contributing more toward reducing pollution, reducing transportation costs and providing better access to work than did those who only used trails only for recreation.

TL;DR: The damage to soil and vegetation caused by mining, unless prevented by careful planning, is usually extreme, because the original ecosystems have had to be grossly disturbed or buried by the mining process as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A comparison was made between a typology and classification of a highly complex suburban landscape with aid of a holistic-based approach for visual interpretation of aerial photographs and a quantitative approach using landscape metrics of the patches formed by the land use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a holistic landscape ecology approach to meet the challenges of the emerging information-rich society by becoming a holistic problem-solving oriented science by joining the transdisciplinary scientific revolution with a paradigm shift from conventional reductionistic and mechanistic approaches to holistic and organismic approaches.

TL;DR: It is argued that the inevitable dynamism in a landscape requires planning to explain and to deal with change, and planning has been slow to do this, in part because it is inadequately equipped to analyze both rapid change and gradual evolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a significant urban heat island (UHI) was identified in Tel-Aviv on a stable winter day using air temperatures at both the roof and the street levels (using fixed-station and car-traverse measurements) and at the surface level (using an airborne thermal video radiometer [TVR]).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that land use patterns of urban and rural character next to each other in Asian mega-cities have not achieved significant success in controlling air and water pollution and lack of adequate urban infrastructure.

TL;DR: Using questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, the usage patterns and perceptions of the public to an urban forest complex are examined, finding a severe undervaluing of the social importance of woods by professionals in favour of general nature conservation guidelines which fail to recognise the nature of urban woodland/community interaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how a lack of communication between scientists, planners, administrators and local stakeholders hinds acceptance and implementation of landscape planning projects in Germany and suggest that landscape ecology can be holistic only if public awareness and participation play an equal role.

TL;DR: In this article, principal components analysis (PCA) was performed on 27 landscape pattern metrics derived from a Kansas land cover data base at three spatial resolutions: 30m, 100m, and 1km.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for land suitability analysis for the upper Gila River watershed in Arizona and New Mexico is presented for the purpose of identifying constraints and opportunities for future land conservation and development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed patterns of bird species richness and its associated conservation value in a largely forested rural area that lies between the natural parks of Sant Llorenc del Munt and Montseny (Catalonia, NE Spain).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated viewer preferences for a road corridor in southern Utah that is managed in part by the USDA Forest Service (USFSS) and part by National Park Service (NPS).

TL;DR: The authors found that over 40% of the Swedish population would prefer a shorter distance to the forest, and argued that residential areas should be planned so that most individuals have the closest recreational forest within walking distance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of recreational trails on the risk of nest predation and nest predator activity at four lowland riparian sites along the Front Range of Colorado.

TL;DR: The issues associated with the use of native and exotic plants in the landscape are reviewed by looking at a range of philosophical as well as technical issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate if the forest remnants of the city and the system of green space corridors could support target species for conservation, in the form of red-listed forest bird species, to reveal those features and properties of the landscape structure that were important in this sense.

TL;DR: In the southern part of Portugal, in the Alentejo region, land-use is dominated by an agro-silvo-pastoral system, the Montado, corresponding to specific cultural landscapes with high biological, scenic and recreational value.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a holistic analysis of the interactions of farming activities and ecological patterns within a gradient of landscape structure, represented by three landscapes that grade from a dense hedgerow network landscape to an open landscape.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a method for the general monitoring of the biodiversity in (sub)urban parks, which works along two lines, that of habitat diversity and that of species diversity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a method for classifying and evaluating the visual qualities of selected native and planned forests and other vegetation groups in Israel, and for identifying the degree of visual preference by selected groups of users.

TL;DR: In this article, the microclimates of a suburban Colorado residential landscape were studied to examine the effect of design decisions on temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity on a hot day typical of summer.