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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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Physical activity patterns in two differently characterised urban parks under conditions of summer heat
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a multi-method empirical study conducted in the city of Leipzig, Germany, during the summer heat and drought period in July 2018.
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Emerging technologies in cool pavements: A review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors mainly focus on the limitations of conventional cool pavement technologies and the recent developments to overcome these limitations, such as reflective and evaporation enhancing pavements, drainable water-retaining pavement, unidirectional heat-transfer pavement, phase change materials (PCM) incorporated pavement, etc.
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Multi-objective planning model for urban greening based on optimization algorithms
TL;DR: This study seeks to identify a planning model that determines the location and type of greens based on its multiple effects and calculates the implementation cost using meta-heuristic optimization algorithms and obtained 30 Pareto-optimal plans.
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Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the use of green infrastructure treatments to evaluate changes in ambient temperatures across diverse land uses in the city of Portland, Oregon and found that one mitigation solution alone would not significantly reduce extreme heat.
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Urban evapotranspiration of green spaces in arid regions through two established approaches: a review of key drivers, advancements, limitations, and potential opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, the estimation of urban ET is difficult because of high spatial variability of urban surfaces, and the authors propose a method to estimate the urban ET in urban areas based on the urban surface geometry.
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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.