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Residents' Preference for Urban Green Space Types and Their Ecological-Social Services in China

open access: yesLand, 2022
With accelerated urbanization and rapid expansion of the urban population, there is an increasing demand among urban residents for urban green spaces (UGS) and the ecosystem services (ES) they provide.
Wudong Zhao   +7 more
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Renovation priorities for old residential districts based on resident satisfaction: An application of asymmetric impact-performance analysis in Xi'an, China. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2021
China is currently designing a regional economic layout for high-quality urban development, shifting its focus from the primary stage of beautifying cities to the next stage of profound urbanization aiming at strengthening industry.
Liu Y, Li H, Li W, Wang S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Making “The Garden City of the South”: Beautification, Preservation, and Downtown Planning in Augusta, Georgia

open access: greenJournal of Planning History, 2019
This article illuminates how a smaller southern city engaged broader planning approaches. Civic leaders, especially women, pushed and partnered with municipal administrations to beautify Augusta, Georgia, a city with extraordinarily wide streets and a ...
J. Mark Souther
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Ecological planning strategies for urban parks based on biodiversity conservation and promotion: a case study of Qingxiushan Forest Park in Nanning City

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Urban biodiversity plays an important role in maintaining urban ecosystem, beautifying urban environment, improving economic benefits and human well-being, and urban park, as an important habitat of urban biology, is an important part of urban ...
Shuang Ming, Qin Du
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Slums Development in Ghana, Debates on Eradication and Upgrading: A Necessary Highlight on Abinkyi

open access: yesJournal of Political Science and International Relations, 2023
: Slum policies in Africa have mostly focused on the demolition and destruction of inhabitants' property. In Ghana, for example, various governments over the years have embarked on slum destruction without relocation.
Phinehas Asiamah
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reality analysis of the state of spatial distribution of green areas using geographic information systems (GIS) – The holy city of Najaf as a case study

open access: yes, 2021
Green areas are an essential component of city planning, as they serve as an outlet for them to spend their free time, in addition to the environmental role that these green areas play in improving the city’s climate by purifying the air and beautifying ...
Nada Kh Alrikabi, Osama J Almosherefawi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“The Moral of these Pictures:” New Zealand’s Early Urban Reform Movements in Lantern Lectures

open access: yesProceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand., 2023
One of the threads linking together the early twentieth-century urban reform movements of city beautifying, garden city/suburb and town planning is the use of lantern slides and their ubiquitous projection device, the magic lantern. Along with newspapers,
Laura Dunham
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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