Showing papers in "Urban Forestry & Urban Greening in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the air quality improvement through several green infrastructure (GI) scenarios consisting of trees, green roofs and green walls considering a case study area in Melbourne, Australia by using the i-Tree Eco software.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial distribution of urban green space and land surface temperature (LST) in Dalian City, China, were obtained through remote sensing interpretation and inversion.

TL;DR: In this article, the combined influence of building morphology and trees on air pollutant concentrations in the Marylebone neighbourhood (central London) was discussed, where aerodynamic and deposition effects of Platanus acerifolia trees were considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a review of publications dealing with demand or social factors such as user needs, preferences and values as well as spatially explicit supply or physical factors, such as amount of green space, (bio)diversity, recreational infrastructure, etc.

TL;DR: In this article, a green index for the planning of smart cities is proposed and verified in the real-world context of Gulbarga city, India, thereby understanding the practicality of this index.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated how green space characteristics and its surrounding environment affects the green space cool island (GCI), and the results indicated that the GCI principle could be explained by the thermal conduct theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, urban wilderness is defined as the supply of wilderness areas along gradients of naturalness and ecological novelty, leading to a differentiation of ancient vs. novel wilderness, and the identification of wilderness components within cultural ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determine the types and structures of small green spaces (SGs) that effectively reduce air temperature in urban blocks, by analyzing the spatial characteristics of SGs within the six blocks.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated disparities in access to public green spaces for urban residents and the spatial mismatches among public green space provision, residents' visits and the demands of socially vulnerable groups within the Central City of Shanghai.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the documentation relating to three selected green roof ecosystem services: reduction of the urban heat island effect, reduction of urban air pollution, and reduction of building energy consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare data from five publicly available sources: 1) public statistics, 2) the national land surveying agency, 3) satellite imagery (Landsat data), 4) the Urban Atlas, 5) the Open Street Map.

TL;DR: A review of existing research in the fields of urban forestry, economics, sociology, and health on the value of urban ecosystem services, with a focus on cultural services, is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the inter-species variation of particulate capture by leaves of seventeen plant species present in a living wall at New Street railway station, Birmingham, UK.

TL;DR: To increase comparability and validity of park access measures, it is recommended that researchers, planners and policy makers use the number of parks within 1 km travel distance of homes as an objective indicator for park access in relation to physical activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship among green spaces, students' socio-economic factors, and their academic performance by using spatial measurements in geographic information system (GIS), and found that schools with more trees had a higher percentage of proficient or advanced scores in Mathematics and Reading standardized tests after controlling for school size, student teacher ratio and free lunch enrollment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a European study sheds light on the role of urban green spaces (UGS) for care facilities for the elderly in an era of worldwide urbanization and ageing, and highlights the importance of UGS for the quality of life of seniors residing in care facilities, but also for the staff and visitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a literature review focused on restoring biodiversity in vacant lots, emphasizing the intersection of human and wildlife needs, and suggest that fast, inexpensive restoration techniques could be implemented in vacant lot and would be well suited to increasing greenspace in low-income areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of urban gardening type and intensity of management on ecosystem services and biodiversity by comparing allotment and community gardens was assessed using in-depth field surveys, remote sensing analyses and interviews.

TL;DR: In this paper, a visual discrete choice experiment employed digitally calibrated images to simulate urban green spaces and analyzed green-space preferences of the elderly on hot days, finding three coping behaviours among the elderly: outdoor, home and second-home coping.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the different social and ecological roles that wild urban spaces play in our cities, and how they vary across space and time, and assess the role and benefits of wild spaces in relation to other types of green spaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the cultural ecosystem benefits gained from urban and peri-urban green infrastructure, drawing on studies undertaken in different European countries, including the United Kingdom National Ecosystem Assessment project.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parametric study was conducted to investigate the quantity and location of facade greening required for potential air cooling and thermal comfort improvement of a neighborhood of varying densities, which revealed an acceptable modelling of facade surface temperature, air temperature, relative humidity and wall-emitted long-wave fluxes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to look at how the people use and perceive urban parks in their daily life in the Malaysian cultural context, and also highlight the constraints faced by Malaysians while using the urban parks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided scientific evidence concerning the physiological and psychological effects of exposure to the forest environment on middle-aged hypertensive men, and they found that viewing the forest landscape produces psychological relaxation effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-city Central European approach is proposed to assess cultural urban ecosystem services of parks by assessing their demand and flows as reflected in visitor perception and behaviors, using accessibility as metrics that can be included in multi-scale (city and neighborhood) indicators that characterize distribution of urban green spaces’ benefits in cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Google Street View to conduct a virtual survey of street trees in three municipalities, and compared their results to existing field data from the same locations, finding that tree identification was less reliable for small trees, rare taxa, and for trees with multiple species in the same genus.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of the first comprehensive study on perception of and satisfaction with urban forests and green space in seven Southeast European cities are presented, where respondents were selected based on census data though a stratified sampling procedure by taking into account age, gender and city district.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed design method was applied to identify relevant factors and to structure these along a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats framework for green roof adoption in cities of temperate climate in Europe.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper measured the concentration of heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd) in leaves of twelve plant species from seven different locations in Shanghai, China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure for changing tree locations in order to improve outdoor thermal comfort on SPL and associated footways was developed and applied on real-world SPL design in the City of Novi Sad (Serbia), where a temporal analysis is performed for the heat wave period using Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) calculations in the Ladybug software.