Showing papers in "Landscape and Urban Planning in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of urban nature for citizens' well-being and for the sustainability of the city they inhabit is discussed, based on a survey conducted among visitors of an urban park in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new concept of functional urban regions (FURs) for landscape ecologists to understand the change of traditional European cultural landscapes, which are highly dynamic, complex and multifunctional.

TL;DR: In this article, the metaphor of cities of resilience is proposed as a metaphor for linking ecology and urban design, and two opposing definitions of resilience from ecology are presented, and reasons why one is more appropriate for linking with design.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodology for assessing the visual quality of agricultural landscapes through direct and indirect techniques of landscape valuation, which enables them to rank agricultural landscapes on the basis of a survey of public preferences.

TL;DR: The public sector in the United States has responded to growing concern about the social and environmental costs of sprawling development patterns by creating a wide range of policy instruments designed to manage urban growth and protect open space as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the United States, there was a 34% increase in the amount of land devoted to urban and built-up uses between 1982 and 1997, with the largest increases in developed area happening in the southern region of the country as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed urban expansion and spatial restructuring of land use patterns in the Pearl River Delta of south China by using remote sensing and GIS, which demonstrated how enforcing land use policies can influence the direction and magnitude of landscape change.

TL;DR: In the context of European integration, networks are becoming increasingly important in both social and ecological sense as societal and scientific exchanges are being restructured as the conceptual approaches towards new nature conservation strategies have been renewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize findings from a series of interrelated studies that examine an urban greenway, the 150 mile Chicago River corridor in Chicago, USA, from multiple perspectives, stakeholder viewpoints, and methodological techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified important sources of variation in perennial vegetation composition within residential neighborhoods of Phoenix, AZ, USA and hypothesized that neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) should offer some capacity for predicting landscape vegetation richness and abundance in both residential neighborhoods and embedded small city parks.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for monitoring biodiversity was applied to 15 parks in Flanders and the results showed that urban and suburban parks can have a high species richness, especially if they consist of different more or less semi-natural habitats.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored landscape dynamics in the SPA ‘Encinares del rio Alberche y Cofio’ Central Spain between 1984 and 1999 in an area of approximately 83,000 hectares.

TL;DR: Greenway planning has, indeed, evolved as a planning tool of multipurpose greenway corridors at every scale and planning levels, ranging from sites through municipal and regional to national levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated residents' perceptions of scenic quality in the Cape Cod community of Dennis, Massachusetts during a period of significant landscape change and found that approximately half of the variation in scenic perceptions can be explained by spatial landscape metrics and this model retains its predictive efficacy after 20 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted surveys in 29 sites in Singapore and found that birds with different dietary and nesting requirements responded in terms of guild richness and abundance to various facets of urbanisation in Singapore.

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics and mechanisms of landscape changes at a settlement level, by using case studies in the countryside of southern France where landscapes are in transition between new residential urbanization and land abandonment, were analyzed using aerial photographs covering a period from 1960 to 1999.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use attribute clustering of both housing density and housing growth for each decade from 1940 to 1990 to illuminate the dynamic process of housing density change in the North Central Region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored preferences for various street-planting models, particularly those with different compositions of flowers, with or without trees, and found that among possible elements for the space beneath trees from a choice including soil, grass, hedge and flowers, flowers were the most favoured.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors made estimates of external water use, the total water use outside home (e.g. on lawns, gardens, or swimming pools) for 397 households in detached housing in Perth, WA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between urban land use and the biological health of streams in historically urbanized areas of Ohio, USA, and tracked the health of three streams over a decade in the rapidly suburbanizing Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined what these concepts mean to individuals who decide to live in new commuter-based subdivisions and found that the importance of finding ways to preserve the forested land for environmental reasons as well as for the satisfactions derived from them by residents, neighbors, and visitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to reduce the human impact on open spaces by reintroducing indigenous vegetation, and under what circumstances this works, which links two important subjects: the specific nature of the original biomes in which the urban region is situated, and the cultural aspect of acceptance of various kinds of nature.

TL;DR: A case study for the application of satellite remote sensing and GIS data and methods in the context of habitat monitoring and landscape assessment at different scales and future activities for transferring the respective approaches onto a pan-European scale are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the same small mammal species are found all along the two gradients, but their relative abundance is linked to the importance of crops versus more stable habitats in the landscape.

TL;DR: In this paper, Zhang et al. substantially copied an article by Matthew Luck and Jianguo Wu, "A gradient analysis of urban landscape pattern: a case study from the Phoenix metropolitan region, Arizona, USA" published in Landscape Ecology 17 (4), pp 327-339, 2002.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply photo-elicitation to connect community-based meanings to environments and events, and find that these meanings are explicitly connected to landscape features through participants' photographs and could form the basis of visions for landscape change within strategic planning processes.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated descriptors used by agencies to assess scenic quality along roads in their jurisdiction and found that vividness had a significant relation with preference, and was most correlated with the construct scenic beauty.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of residential zoning and subdivision regulations on the extent and distribution of impervious land cover in Madison, Wisconsin is examined and three specific strategies for reducing residential impervious area through municipal land development regulations are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make clear the perceptions of stream corridors and to show some factors which are important for integrating them into the Urban Greenway Plan, and suggest that enhancing the ecological environment, creating a recreational circulation system, and making full use of the natural and cultural characteristics of the local areas are important to the integration of stream corridor in urban greenways.