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, 2015 The City of Phoenix (Arizona, USA) developed a Tree and Shade Master Plan and a Cool Roofs initiative to ameliorate extreme heat during the summer months in their arid city.
Ariane Middel, N. Chhetri, R. Quay
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EDIS, 2011 These pattern books were written by Gail Hansen, Kelly Perez, and Esen Momol and published by the UF Department of Environmental Horticulture, March 2011.
Gail Hansen, Kelly Perez, Esen Momol
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"Edible" urban forests as part of inclusive, sustainable cities [PDF]
, 2018 Feeding an increasingly urban population and ensuring the economic and social well-being of urban dwellers will be the primary challenge for cities in coming decades.
Cari\uf1anos, Paloma +4 more
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The economics of native plants in residential landscape designs [PDF]
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2006 Yard-scale landscape designs can influence environmental quality through effects on habitat, stormwater runoff, and water quality. Native plant gardens may have ecological benefits, and previous research has shown that yards using these plants can be designed in ways that people find attractive.
Helfand, Gloria E. +3 more
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Green heritage: a newcomer to the preservation of monuments and historic buildings
Bulletin KNOB, 2012 Garden landscaping is an age-old human activity that went through various styles and fashions. Around 1900 garden architect Leonard Springer (1855-1940), among others, pointed out the lack of knowledge on the garden art of the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
Natascha Lensvelt
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Green Housing = Improved Health: A Winning Combination [PDF]
, 2011 The case studies in this paper explore the relationship between housing and health. It explains how building affordable green housing provides health benefits to low-income residentsand it identifies the benefits of green housing for the environment and ...
Noreen Beatley
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Marketing Florida-Friendly Landscapes to Florida Homeowners
EDIS, 2019 Useful to retail and landscape firms who are interested in encouraging FFL-related purchases and installations, this 3-page fact sheet written by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, and Caroline R.
Hayk Khachatryan +2 more
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The implications of alternative developer decision-making strategies on land-use and land-cover in an agent-based land market model [PDF]
, 2012 Land developers play a key role in land-use and land cover change, as\ud they directly make land development decisions and bridge the land and housing\ud markets.
Brown, D.G. +6 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Outdoor watering of lawns accounts for about half of single-family residential potable water demand in the arid southwest United States. Consequently, many water utilities in the region offer customers cash rebates to replace lawns with drought tolerant ...
Stanley B Grant +6 more
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Designer buildings: an evaluation of the price impacts of signature architects [PDF]
, 2009 This study investigates whether commercial offices designed by signature architects in the United States achieve rental premiums compared to commercial offices designed by nonsignature architects.
Fuerst, Franz +2 more
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