Showing papers in "Landscape and Urban Planning in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the distributional equity of urban vegetation in 10 US urbanized areas using very high resolution land cover data and census data and found that there is a strong positive correlation between urban vegetation and higher education and income across most cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed both the quantity and quality of street greenery and associated them with the recreational physical activity occurring in green outdoor environments of 1390 participants in 24 housing estates in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how landscape planning and governance research can contribute to the identification, design and implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in river landscapes, such as restoring floodplains, can not only decrease flood risks for downstream communities but also provide co-benefits in terms of habitat creation for numerous species and enhanced delivery of diverse ecosystem services.

TL;DR: This analytical approach contributes to a growing trend in integrating large, freely-available datasets with machine learning to inform planners, and it makes a step forward for urban planning practices through focusing on the human-scale measurement of accessed street greenery.

TL;DR: In this paper, an interdisciplinary review on urban trees, air quality, and asthma is presented, concluding that there is no scientific consensus that urban trees reduce asthma by improving air quality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between spatial pattern and cooling effect of urban green spaces (UGS) in Singapore from 1973 to 2015 using a range of statistical and spatial methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore biopsychosocial pathways linking exposure to neighbourhood greenness to mental wellbeing using survey data collected from 35 neighbourhoods of Guangzhou, China, using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as the surrogate for residential exposure to greenness, thereby enabling the comparison between China and other countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a novel approach, emphasizing the actual park users' activities, both spatially and temporally, and found that social equity could be achieved, even where territorial inequity was manifest in a high-population-density context that is undergoing rapid urban growth and transition.

TL;DR: An innovative big data approach to derive street-level morphology and urban feature composition as experienced by a pedestrian from Google Street View (GSV) imagery is developed and constitutes an important step towards building a global morphological database to describe the form and composition of cities from a human-centric perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the performance of the InVEST water yield model in a typical East Asian monsoon catchment of South China and found that precipitation is the most sensitive factor affecting water yield compared with two other important variables: ET0 (reference evapotranspiration) and Z (climate seasonality factor).

TL;DR: To increase visitor well-being, it is important to enhance characteristics that favor social interaction, and a close relationship between patterns of visitor use and urban parks components such as distance, tree abundance, safeness, playground qualities and cleanliness is shown.

TL;DR: The result indicates that visual quality of Hutongs are not satisfied, while some regeneration projects in the historical protection block is better, and the difference between physical and perceived quality indicates the feasibility and limitation of the auto-calculation method.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper used mobile phone data to determine if older people experience inequitable park access owing to their socioeconomic status, and found that housing price, the distance to commercial areas and greenspaces are significant influencing factors of the park accessibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical analysis and reflection upon over 200 real life planning cases in Finland (62%) and other countries (38%) using PPGIS methodology was conducted to evaluate the ability of PPGIST tools to enhance effective arrangements of public participation, reach a broad spectrum of people and produce high quality and versatile knowledge.

TL;DR: Using a geolocated Twitter database, this research correlates quantified sentiment levels inside parks in New York City with social media to develop a methodology for understanding the varying levels of feelings in urban green space.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the experiences of Vietnam following the economic reform, known as Doimoi, to study urbanization, economic development, and environmental and social changes in transitional economies at multi-scales.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors quantitatively assessed the cooling effect of urban wetlands in cities of northeast China by using split-window algorithm (SWA) to estimate land surface temperatures from Landsat-8 TIRS.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the dynamics of polycentric urban development and thermal environment in Hangzhou during 2000-2010, and their relationship was investigated in both morphological and functional dimensions.

TL;DR: In this article, a correlation analysis of survey data from two locations in the UK to explore the potential contribution of Social Practice Theory (SPT) to improve the understanding of the requirements and behaviours of users is presented.

TL;DR: More attention is recommended to be placed towards awareness raising, diversification of formats and activities to reach a larger diversity of participants, structured tracking of performance indicators and learning from participants’ feedback.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an exponential model to quantify the temporal decline in urban population densities from 2001 to 2015 in 35 major Chinese cities and found that the initial urban population density and the growth rates of urban land, population, and GDP in a city are significantly correlated with the decline rates and that these four factors can explain 72.3% of the variance in the decline rate among cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the main spatial strategies promoted at the EU-level and investigate whether the recent spatial development trends of EU cities have been following the directions suggested by the strategies.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed a park service area, defined as the zone of influence of individual parks, in Beijing, and the factors that influence the service area using 1-SDE based on mobile phone signaling data.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of urban land use and landscape pattern on PM2.5 spatial variation was investigated, specifically on identification of influential landscape classes/types that regulate PM 2.5 concentration levels.

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric analysis of 333 English papers published in SCI journals (i.e., indexed by Web of Science) during 1990-2017, whose titles, abstracts or keywords contain sustainable landscapes (SL) or landscape sustainability (LS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the shift in the amount and distribution of green spaces in Bucharest as a consequence of the transition from a centralized planning system to a market-based system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach which combines subjective wellbeing measures with photo simulation in order to examine the impact of street-level green infrastructure interventions on the people's perceptions of the SWB associated with urban sites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated and selected landscape ecology techniques that can be used by planners to assess the effects in terms of changes in habitat loss, fragmentation and ecological connectivity due to expected land use changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of spatial metrics that capture different aspects of the urban form of 919 Latin American and Caribbean cities were used to classify these cities into clusters according to these spatial metrics and perform a spatio-temporal analysis of urban growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of urban expansion on environmental sustainability in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China (APTZNC), a major dryland region of China, were investigated.