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Urban Ecosystems, 2013
Estimating the relative importance of vegetation on residential land (gardens, yards, and street-trees) and vegetation on non-residential land (parks and other large green spaces) is important so that competing options for urban conservation planning can be prioritized. We used data from an urban breeding-bird monitoring program to compare the relative
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Estimating the relative importance of vegetation on residential land (gardens, yards, and street-trees) and vegetation on non-residential land (parks and other large green spaces) is important so that competing options for urban conservation planning can be prioritized. We used data from an urban breeding-bird monitoring program to compare the relative
Adam C. Smith +2 more
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THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS OF SUBURBAN RESIDENTIAL BUILDERS
Urban Geography, 1981Builders are pivotal actors in the suburban residential development process, which includes other landowners, facilitators, and governments. Builders select sites for new housing in three stages. First, they establish the general nature and scale of the project; second, they examine large areas to determine the probability of finding suitable sites in ...
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Drivers of Residential Location in Suburban Areas of Lokoja, Nigeria
AFRIGIST JOURNAL OF LAND ADMINISTRATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 2022This paper examined the motivation for residential location in the suburbs of Lokoja, Nigeria. Three major suburban settlements of Ganaja, Felele and Zango were selected for this study. An inventory of residential development within the last ten years was made through a questionnaire survey of one hundred and forty-five households in the three sampled ...
J. E. Ukoje, U. W. Ibor
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Forest birds as diversity indicator in suburban and residential areas
Ecofeminism and Climate Change, 2020Purpose Birds are biological indicators for environment health in which their sightings and abundance could reflect a certain situation or become evaluation tool for co-existence of another species. Here, the study aims to observe urban settlements with substantial forestation, may it be artificial or natural, and the occurrence of bird assemblage ...
Bryan Raveen Nelson +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Traditional accounts often have underestimated complexities involved in suburbanization process by assuming direct, linear causality to explain the suburban patterns of metropolitan development. Yet, an explicit explanation that encompasses the complexities of the multitude of flux of causal relationships and feedbacks and incorporates demographic and ...
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Traditional accounts often have underestimated complexities involved in suburbanization process by assuming direct, linear causality to explain the suburban patterns of metropolitan development. Yet, an explicit explanation that encompasses the complexities of the multitude of flux of causal relationships and feedbacks and incorporates demographic and ...
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Some Effects of Suburban Residential Development on Local Finances
1957Recent population trends have transformed many rural farming communities into residential suburbs. The changing pattern of land use has had important effects on farmland values and on farm property taxes. It has also placed a strain on the financial resources of local government. Especially where local units are small and lack economic diversification,
Stocker, Frederick D. +1 more
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Role of parks in residential district by physical activity on suburban residential area
Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2023Kaoru Matsuo +3 more
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The Social and Educational Status of the Pupils in a Residential Suburban Community
The School Review, 1929For the purpose of discovering some of the social and educational influences which affect pupil enrolment, participation in activities, and scholarship in the high school, the writer was engaged for three years in a study of the school population of a residential suburban community, the Lyons Township High School district, with buildings located in La ...
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Trees and landscape of a suburban residential neighbourhood in Hong Kong
Landscape and Urban Planning, 1993Abstract The gardens of suburban homes in a low-density housing estate in Hong Kong, Fairview Park, provided opportunities for the cultivation of private trees. The hypothesis that residential tree populations are different from public ones in terms of composition, structure, spatial pattern, and tree-habitat relationship was explored.
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Faces of Suburbanization: Residential Location Choice at the Urban Fringe
Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007Caroline Cunningham +4 more
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