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Optimizing green space locations to reduce daytime and nighttime urban heat island effects in Phoenix, Arizona
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In this paper, the authors developed a framework to identify the best locations and configuration of new green space with respect to cooling benefits in order to mitigate the effect of urban heat island effects.About:
This article is published in Landscape and Urban Planning.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 191 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban heat island.read more
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A Method Proposal to Adapt Urban Open-Built and Green Spaces to Climate Change
Carmela Gargiulo,Floriana Zucaro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , a methodology that classifies open spaces on the basis of their physical characteristics and their contribution to climate vulnerability and articulates them according to the costs required for adaptation and the benefits brought is presented.
Characterization of Visitors’ Perception of Landscape Heterogeneity in Urban Green Spaces
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed visitors' perception of landscape heterogeneity in urban green spaces and found that visitors perceive landscape heterogeneity through the mixing of different heights of three vegetation strata and flower areas.
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Environmental Analysis Using Integrated GIS and Spatial Configurations in Israel
TL;DR: In this article , the authors adopt an empirical study design to consider the multi-dimensional utilisation of an integrated GIS and spatial configuration for environment analysis in Israel and conclude that the threats of natural disasters and climate change can be identified based on the synergy of spatial data within an integrated gIS modelling.
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Spatial Optimization of Park Green Spaces by an Improved Two-Step Optimization Model from the Perspective of Maximizing Accessibility Equity
TL;DR: In this paper , Park green spaces (PGSs) carry the daily recreation and social communication of urban residents, and the inequity of their space accessibility has been widely confirmed, but the optimized suggestions based on evaluations of accessibility and equity in previous studies cannot guide actual planning effectively because the reasonable locations and scales of construction of PGSs were difficult to accurately identify.
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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FRAGSTATS: spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure
Kevin McGarigal,Barbara J. Marks +1 more
TL;DR: McGarigal et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a spatial pattern analysis program for quantifying landscape structure called FRAGSTATS, which is almost completely automated and thus requires little technical training.
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Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed progress in urban climatology over the two decades since the first publication of the International Journal of Climatology (IJC) and highlighted the role of scale, heterogeneity, dynamic source areas for turbulent fluxes and the complexity introduced by the roughness sublayer over the tall, rigid roughness elements of cities.
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The maximal covering location problem
TL;DR: The use of a maximal service distance as a measure of the value of a given locational configuration has been discussed at length by Toregas and ReVelle 1 who show that it is an important surrogate measurement for the value.
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Thermal remote sensing of urban climates
James A. Voogt,Timothy R. Oke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the use of thermal remote sensing in the study of urban climates, focusing primarily on the urban heat island effect and progress made towards answering the methodological questions posed by Roth et al.