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The Flowery Stations Contest in Early Twentieth-Century Italy: Railway Gardens and the Case Study of Ripafratta (Tuscany) [PDF]
PlantsUrban green areas are essential for human well-being, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability. Although railway renewal projects are celebrated today, Italy pioneered the Flowery Stations Contest (FSC) in the early twentieth century.
Athos Pedrelli +3 more
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Greenery as an Element of Imageability in Window Views
Land, 2022 A window view affects a person’s well-being and comfort. The effect of visual contact with nature on people depends on the quality of the outside scenery, which in turn depends on parameters such as the number of visible layers, the distance to visual ...
Alenka Fikfak +2 more
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Gardens as a Parameter of Greenery Status of Kurdistan
Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2021 Garden history in Kurdistan may go back to more than thousands of years before century (BC). In fact, most investigations reflect that almost all known gardens in the area (Middle East), in one way or another, are either some sort of modification or ...
Kardo N. Kareem, Bahram K. Maulood
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Preferences of public space users towards trees and other forms of greenery in Lublin's old town
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2023 Currently, the functions of the historical parts of cities are more and more oriented towards the visitors rather than residents. The high density of cultural heritage objects attracts tourists for whom restaurants and shops are created.
Ewa Trzaskowska +3 more
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MethodsX, 2022 Quantifying street-level greenery has been the subject of interest for researchers as it has several implications for community residents. Green View Index (GVI) is a widely used parameter to compute the greenery along the streets.
Harish Puppala +3 more
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Urban transit impacting greenery especially on streetscape: A review [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2022 With increasing urban development, urban transit systems and corridors have emerged as an important aspect of the urban fabric with mixed use development in their surroundings. Urban Transit Systems are accessible to all groups of people and allow people
Manika Goel +2 more
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South-East European Forestry, 2021 This research aims to determine the interaction of the effects of provenance and habitat conditions on provenance tests on the growth of Scots pine on two experimental plots in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mirzeta Memišević Hodžić +1 more
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Green physical activity for leisure connects perceived residential greenspace and mental well-being
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Physical activity serves as a pivotal mediator in previous theoretical frameworks that link greenspace and human health. However, it remains unclear whether the domain of physical activity within and around greenspaces can alter the pathway.
Hansen Li +3 more
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Land, 2022 A comfortable thermal environment in outdoor spaces is beneficial to people’s physical and mental health in cold conditions during winter. Greenery can improve outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) via microclimates in winter. Multiple methods have been employed
Kun Wang +4 more
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No-Greenery Line and Greenery-View Factor, New Architectural Design Tools
Journal of Daylighting, 2020 The paper proposes a new tool for evaluation of the degree of visual contact with the outdoor greenery, the Greenery-View factor (GV), intended to be easy to grasp and simple to use.
Barbara Szybinska Matusiak
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