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See How Our Garden Grows: Cultivating Community through a Fruit and Veggie Exchange [PDF]
, 2019 Celebrate local food, community, and thebounty of harvest as library folks gather toshare fruits, vegetables, seeds, preserves, gardening and food publications, and their own knowledge.
Kane, Kim +2 more
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Decentralized Wind Energy Systems as Catalysts for Urban Resilience: A Design Framework
Energy Science &Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 682-700, February 2026.ABSTRACT Confronting the escalating extreme weather events (EWEs) and intensifying winds, this study proposes an active response to these issues by exploring decentralized wind energy production for Peng Chau Island, Hong Kong. It integrates theoretical perspectives on energy democracy—empowering local communities through energy autonomy—and urban ...
Tian Cheng
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Development of an Adaptive Model of Thermal Comfort in a Mixed‐Mode Japanese Multi‐Family Apartment
JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.ABSTRACT This paper aims to construct a Japanese localized Adaptive Model of thermal comfort and to examine the effect of humidity on the predicted comfort temperature. Also, the extent of adaptation, including the use of air conditioning, was investigated.
Kazuya Matsuo +3 more
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Blue-Green Systems, 2019 Research and practice during the last 20 years has shown that urban agriculture can contribute to minimising the effects of climate change by, at the same time, improving quality of life in urban areas.
S. L. G. Skar +15 more
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, 2017 Although interest in productive gardening, as part of a healthy, high density city lifestyle, is growing rapidly, severe spatial constraints limit opportunities for ground-level community gardens and urban farms.
Pryor, MR
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2026.Observations in San Antonio, Texas documented rare interspecific allopreening between crested caracaras and black vultures at Phil Hardberger Park. This represents the first recorded instance of such behavior in an urban green space, expanding the known ecological and geographic scope of interspecies social interactions.
Lori Boies +2 more
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Computational Urban ScienceThe growing urban population and increasing climate anomalies pose persistent challenges to urban resilience by threatening food, water, and energy security and intensifying land-use competition.
V. S. Manivasagam +2 more
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, 2011 Invited paperMany urban cities in the world are trying to enhance sustainability by improving urban greenery and promoting urban farming. By installing green roofs with urban farming, it is possible to achieve environmental, social and economic ...
Hui, SCM
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Urban Farming in Inner-City Multi-Storey Car-Parking Structures: Adaptive Reuse Potential [PDF]
, 2019 The future direction of transport and new global concepts of low-carbon mobility are likely to increase the number of obsolete inner-city multi-storey car-parking structures.
Lehmann, Steffen +1 more
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Hydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2026.Schematic representation of the main instrumentation used to monitor the rain garden, including the meteorological station and water‐level sensor, together with an illustration of the bioretention layered media. The graphic abstract also presents an example of the resulting hydrographs, showing surface, subsurface, and inflow volumes.
Maria Thereza Rocha Chaves +5 more
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