Showing papers in "Landscape and Urban Planning in 2010"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used systematic review methodology to evaluate available evidence on whether greening interventions, such as tree planting or the creation of parks or green roofs, affect the air temperature of an urban area.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that people perceive green spaces in terms of certain dimensions, where some dimensions are more important and preferred than others with respect to restoring people from stress, indicating a need to find the most restorative environments.

TL;DR: A review of urban CA models applied to real-world cases is provided, along with an analysis of their capabilities and limitations, and the review and classification of CA models based on the main characteristics of the models has allowed for theAnalysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

TL;DR: In this paper, potential corridors were identified in Jinan City, China, using the least-cost path method, and green space networks were developed and improved based on graph theory and the gravity model, and revealed problems in the current greening plan.

TL;DR: In this article, Park vegetation and shape index (PVSI) was proposed to predict the Park Cool Island (PCI) intensity of 92 parks in Nagoya, Japan and used information derived from high-spatial-resolution IKONOS satellite data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the association between potential predictor factors and visits to green space at least a few times per week and found that 66.9% of the respondents live within 300 m of green space, 43.0% visit green space every day and 91.5% visit Green Space at least once a week.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed urban form with respect to landscape metrics and population-related indicators for 231 European cities and found that four out of five European citizens live in urban areas, and urban form influences daily life and is an important factor for both quality of life and environmental impact.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a hedonic price model to simultaneously estimate the effects of street trees on the sales price and the time-on-market (TOM) of houses in Portland, Oregon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a review of green roof research to investigate what is known about the application of plants on green roofs across North America and their ecological implications, and they concluded that as green roofs continue to become regulated and adopted in policy, further development of standards and guidelines is needed.

TL;DR: An experiment investigating the influence of vegetation diversity on green roof plant survival following an imposed drought concluded that a diverse plant mix was more advantageous than a monoculture in terms of greater survivability and higher visual rating under dry conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the factors which are expected to contribute to higher rail transit ridership by using multiple regressions, including land use, station characteristics, socio-economic and demographic characteristics and inter-modal competition.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for targeting the management of ecosystem services based on social values within the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin region, Australia is presented, where a total of 56 community representatives were interviewed and their values for ecosystem services were elicited and mapped.

TL;DR: This article investigated 101 public high schools in southeastern Michigan to examine the role played by the availability of nearby nature in student academic achievement and behavior, and found consistent and systematically positive relationships between nature exposure and student performance.

TL;DR: This paper examined characteristics associated with higher levels of neighborhood satisfaction among residents of traditional versus suburban neighborhoods, using an ordered logit model, and found that neighborhood satisfaction is higher among the traditional neighborhood residents, even after controlling for sociodemographics and other characteristics.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Building Coverage Ratio, Floor Area Ratio, and other building density indicators can be numerically and automatically derived from high-resolution airborne LiDAR data.

TL;DR: Patterns of use in public open space such as parks that indicate relationships between the design of parks and the detailed ways that users inhabit (or not) such places are described, particularly on the use of comparatively level and regularly mown grassed areas.

TL;DR: In this article, morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) is used to map green infrastructure, extend the geographic scope to the conterminous United States, and incorporate land-cover change information.

TL;DR: Graph theory and network analysis have become established as promising ways to efficiently explore and analyze landscape or habitat connectivity, but little attention has been paid to making them effective and scalable.

TL;DR: The authors examined agreement between perceived greenness of neighbourhoods and an objective measure of greenness using a normalised vegetation index (NDVI) and found that there was a lack of agreement between the perceived and objective measures of Greenness, suggesting that these measures are capturing different aspects of neighbourhood greenness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed land-cover change in Phoenix, Arizona during the period of 1985-2005 using landscape metrics computed from Landsat-derived maps revealed temporal patterns of landscape composition and configuration and showed that scaling relations are also robust and consistent across thematic resolutions and time periods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of different agricultural land-use (grassland, arable land), grassland management intensity (high, low, mixed), and abundance of ecological compensation areas (ECAs) on perceived scenic beauty by 202 non-alpine Swiss residents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the NIES Integrated Catchment-based Eco-hydrology (NICE-URBAN) model to simulate the water and heat budgets for various materials and to reproduce the cooling of water-holding pavement (consisting of porous asphalt and water holding filler made of steel by-products based on a silica compound) by evaporation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a synthesis of rapid landscape change and regional environmental dynamics in the Lianyungang bay area from 2000 to 2006 based on remote sensing data, and quantified the annual rate of urban land-use change in the study area using classified Landsat TM (2006-05-20) and ETM+ (2000-09-16) images.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the structure, size and economic impact of tourist expenditure in the six German national parks Niedersachsisches Wattenmeer, Bayerischer Wald, Eifel, Muritz, Hainich and Kellerwald-Edersee.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the situation in Wuhan, one of the largest cities in China, which has many surface water bodies in its urban region and measure and analyse land use changes between 1993 and 2004 to lakes and shallow water bodies and their riparian areas using data derived from detailed land use surveys of the city.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effectiveness of Mesua ferrea L and Hura crepitans L. in shading creation and radiation modification in improving human thermal comfort in tropical open spaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of rivers as dispersal corridors for primarily wind-dispersed ornamentals was tested in the Spree River (Berlin, Germany) and the results suggest that planting native tree species along river corridors would help prevent invasion risks and contribute to implementing principles of ecological design in urban greenways.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of proximity to motorway exits on urban growth and analyses urban growth along some of the main motorways in Switzerland was assessed based on two data collection campaigns from the Land Use Statistics with a time difference of 12 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of modern housing construction on the living conditions experienced by country-dwellers and the appearance and aesthetics of rural settlements is analyzed. But the authors focus on the impact of new construction on rural areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the role of fungi in urban ecosystems is presented, highlighting the potential for fungal conservation in cities if their ecology can be understood and communicated to land managers.