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View-based greenery: A three-dimensional assessment of city buildings’ green visibility using Floor Green View Index

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2016
Abstract Vegetation provides many environmental benefits to the city, and daily access to vegetation contributes to the well-being and psychological status of urban residents. Understanding and measuring urban dwellers’ view-based exposure to greenery has become an important and much needed task for assessing the quality of urban life.
Siyi Yu, Bailang Yu, Wei Song
exaly   +2 more sources

Construction of Green City Index in Indonesian Metropolitan Districts/Cities

Proceedings of The International Conference on Data Science and Official Statistics, 2023
Urbanization in Indonesia resulted in population density in urban areas, which has the potential for economic growth, marked by increased population income followed by changes in consumption patterns that will cause environmental problems in urban areas. Seeing environmental issues that occur in urban areas, it is necessary to have a green city concept
Vina Astriani   +2 more
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Application of Siemens index of green cities for selected areas in Iraq

2021
Irregular urban design and use of traditional resources to provide energy have a major impact on people's lives and climate in the future. The aim of this paper is to determine the best place to design a sustainable city, based on the Siemens Index for Green Cities and Comfort Factor.
Jasim, Safaa   +2 more
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Establishing the Evaluation Indexes of Sustainable Development of Green Livable City

International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Protection, 2021
A green city has ideal and modern urban development with extraordinary harmony of environment, ecology, economy, society, culture, and people. The coordination of human relations and green development has become a new development model for a modern society. Recently, the construction of a green city has aroused wide concern.
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A critique of the European Green City Index

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2013
In 2009, Siemens (Germany) sponsored the research by the Economist Intelligence Unit (London), which resulted in the publication of the European Green City Index report, in which the environmental performance of 30 large cities in Europe was analysed.
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Development of an Index for Assessment of Urban Green Spacesat City Level

International Journal of Remote Sensing Applications, 2015
Urban green spaces (UGS) are one of the indispensable elements for design and development of cities. UGS are considered as “lung” of cities as well as one of the elements reflecting the quality of life. The aim of this research is to develop Weighted Urban Green Space Index (WUGSI) for assessment of city wide UGS based on multi criteria analysis of ...
Duong Thi Loi   +2 more
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