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Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co‐design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 871-877, May 2026.
The urban forest provides important environmental and health and well‐being benefits to people living in cities. However, sustainable management of urban trees is challenging as they face interrelated pressures from the urban environment, pests and diseases and climate change.
Jill Edmondson, Eleanor Absalom, Raoul Blackman, Paul Brindley, Stuart Campbell, Alan Carter, Abigail Catterrall, Miriam Dobson, Kieron Doick, Mathew Dumelow, Sophia Cunningham, Fran Halsall, Liam Healy, Jamie Howe, Jonathan R. Leake, Nicola McHugh, Anthony Turner, Hannah Walker, Katie Pruszynski, Ian MacDermott, Jerry Gunton, Matthew North, Catherine Nuttgens, Toby Pillat, Holly Croft   +24 more
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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
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Localizing Social Aspects and Liveability Criteria in Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools; Case Study: New Urban Expansions in Cairo, Egypt

Prostor
Successful urban regeneration accentuates the major purpose of the built environment in achieving urban renewal, in particular preserving local identity and sense of place, promoting mixed-use communal living, and optimizing resources on a long-term plan.
Nouran Naguib, Kristina Careva, Rene Lisac   +2 more
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The Impacts of Perceived Safety and Service Quality on Perceived Accessibility by Public Transport in Melbourne

Land
In recent years, accessibility to services and activities using sustainable transport modes has become an important goal for land use and transport planning policies. Traditional approaches rely on objective measures, such as travel time, distance, costs,
Hing-Wah Chau, Melissa Chan, Elmira Jamei, Katrin Lättman   +3 more
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Reinventing the regions: Victoria’s changing regional economies [PDF]

Regional Victoria accounts for around a quarter of the State\u27s population and economic output. In March 2013 Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan released the Reinventing the Regions report which documents the
Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Regional Development Victoria   +1 more
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Developing and testing a framework for the assessment of neighbourhood liveability in two contrasting countries:Iran and Estonia [PDF]

, 2014
Bell, Simon, Faizi, Mohsen, Hosseini, Seyed-Bagher, Norouzian Maleki, Saeid   +3 more
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USABILITY OF LARGE URBAN FACILITIES IN SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION - CASE STUDY OF REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTERS IN ISTANBUL [PDF]

Due to the dynamic nature of the urban development in developing countries in parallel to rapidly changing economic, social and technological environments, decisions based on master plans do usually fail.
Darcin Akin, Esra Demircioglu
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'It'll get worse before it gets better': Local experiences of living in a regeneration area [PDF]

, 2013
The negative consequences of living in deprived neighbourhoods for residents’ quality of life are well documented. Area-based regeneration initiatives are invariably concerned with improving local quality of life over the long term.
Braidford, Paul, Davidson, Gill, Greenhalgh, Paul, McGuinness, David, Robinson, Fred   +4 more
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A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Vanos J, Guzman-Echavarria G, Baldwin JW, Bongers C, Ebi KL, Jay O.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Melbourne’s high rise apartment boom [PDF]

This report documents the scale of the Melbourne’s recent inner-city high rise apartment boom and the scale of its likely further expansion. It shows that it is an investor led boom, which is disconnected from any underlying increased preference for ...
Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy
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