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Enhancing liveability through urban intensification: The idea and role of neighbourhood

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
This paper considers the contention that higher density neighbourhoods can lead to enhanced liveability, and examines the idea and role of neighbourhood to achieve this aim and policy goal. It reports on the findings from fifty-seven in-depth qualitative
Natalie Allen, Errol Haarhoff, Lee Beattie   +2 more
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SWOT Analysis and Developing Strategies for the Realisation of Urban Livability in Tehran

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
The present study aims to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of managing the Tehran Metropolitan to help comprehend the status quo as well as the challenges to the realisation of liveability indicators.
Reza Shabanzadeh Namini, Mirella Loda, Abolfazl Meshkini   +2 more
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Research report 22: liveability in NDC areas: findings from six case studies [PDF]

, 2004
New Deal for Communities (NDC) is a key programme in the Government's strategy to tackle multiple deprivation by giving some of the poorest communities in the UK the resources to tackle their problems in an intensive and co-ordinated way.
Shaw, Keith
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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]

, 2007
Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Barrett, Bartley, Beier, Bengtsson, Bixler, Bodin, Bolund, Booth, Bratton, Brunner, Brussard, Butler, Cairns, Calow, Collins, Costanza, Costanza, Davey-Smith, Davey-Smith, de Groot, de Leo, de Vries, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Dunn, Ehrlich, Faber-Taylor, Flores, Grimm, Haddad, Haeuber, Haila, Hartig, Hartig, Henwood, Hobbs, Horwitz, Humpel, Humpel, Jari Niemela, Jongman, Kalevi Korpela, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kim, Kinzig, Konstantinos Tzoulas, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Lackey, Levin, Li, Loreau, Lu, Macintyre, Macintyre, Mageau, Mayer, Millennium Assessment, Moss, Naeem, Newell, Noss, Odum, Opdam, O’Campo, Paton, Patz, Payne, Philip James, Pickett, Pickett, Pikora, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rioux, Ross, Rudlin, Sallis, Sandström, Schrijnen, Simberloff, St Leger, Stephen Venn, Stokols, Takano, Tanaka, Tilman, Troyer, Turner, Turner, Ulrich, Ulrich, Ulrich, van der Ryn, van Kamp, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Walmsley, Wells, Westphal, Whitford, Wicklum, Wilson, Yli-Pelkonen, Zielhuis, Zielinski-Gutierrez, Zipperer   +119 more
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Socio‐demographic and geographical patterns in forest and park use: Insights from 33 European countries

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Access to (urban) nature is vital for people's wellbeing, but this accessibility is not evenly spread across socio‐demographic groups, nor across the European continent. This paper fills a research gap by exploring the use patterns and accessibility of forests and parks across European cities, based on a standardised online survey of 10,462 ...
Ivana Živojinović, Stojan Ivanović, Oliver Tošković, Helga Pülzl, Rik De Vreese, Clive Davies, Dennis Roitsch, Georg Winkel, Liisa Tyrväinen, Jakub Kronenberg, Corina Basnou, Marko Lovrić, Jakob Derks, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Dijana Vuletić, Nicola da Schio, Ivana Sentić, Jelena Tomićević‐Dubljević   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, EarlyView.
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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Ecological paradigm of cities in post-Brundtland era: challenges of conserving historic urban landscapes as living cities

Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2018
Sustainability has been a pressing, complex, and challenging agenda for urbanists. Its focus turns on wider issues of envi-ronment and societies thus broadening the concept defined in the Brundtland report.
Harsha Munasinghe
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Towards Liveability in Historic Centres: Challenges and Enablers of Transformation in Two Latvian Towns

Urban Planning, 2023
This article describes two Latvian towns, Cēsis and Bauska, which have medieval origins and noticeable layers of subsequent historic periods. Both of their town centres have historic heritage protection status and a complex mixture of values, needs, and ...
Margarita Vološina, Evija Taurene, Pēteris Šķiņķis   +2 more
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Getting hands‐on with hedges—Does experiential engagement in plant science experiments affect secondary school pupils' environmental perceptions?

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
In towns and cities, vegetation growing around streets and buildings can lessen the risks posed by extreme heat, rainfall and poor air quality. However, the urban public (and particularly, youth) have limited awareness of these environmental benefits.
Chloe Sutcliffe, Rosie Naylor, Jorge Campos‐Gonzalez, Tijana Blanusa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking urban form to a liveable city [PDF]

, 2007
This paper intends to show the contribution and relationship of urban form to a liveable city, as many researchers pose the urban form as one of the factors that can worsen or improve the sustainability of the city. The paper will begin by exploring into
Abdul Samad Hadi,, Noraziah Abdul Aziz,
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