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Spatial Relationships and Driving Mechanisms of Ecosystem Health in Urbanization: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability
Rapid urbanization has markedly affected urban ecosystem health (EH), making it imperative to explore the relationships between EH and urbanization, as well as to identify the key factors influencing EH.
Qiaoling Luo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Communities in Action. The Handbook [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Focuses on ways to enable and improve the practice of participatory design, urban design and neighbourhood ...
Frey, H.W., Romice, O.R.
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Insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces within forming dynamics: the relation between infrastructure and urban transformation in Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The research seeks to produce insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces where large scale infrastructure propels urban transformation.
Chiappini, María Cecilia   +2 more
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Visual communication in urban planning and urban design [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This report documents the current status of visual communication in urban design and planning. Visual communication is examined through discussion of standalone and network media, specifically concentrating on visualisation on the World Wide Web(WWW ...
Dodge, M, Doyle, S, Hudson-Smith, A
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Urban green space, perceived everyday discrimination and mental health among rural-to-urban migrants: a multilevel analysis in Wuhan, China

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background While the mental health benefits of urban green spaces (UGS) are increasingly recognized, less is known about how these relationships vary for socially marginalized groups.
Hanbei Cheng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decrypting Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Optimization Pathway of Ecological Resilience Under a Panarchy-Inspired Framework: Insights from the Wuhan Metropolitan Area

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Environmental degradation from rapid urbanization significantly threatens ecological resilience (ER). Nevertheless, accurately evaluating ER remains a persistent challenge.
An Tong, Yan Zhou, Jiazi Zheng, Ziqi Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Design of Urban Forests [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This chapter explores the design of the urban forest. Whether the various elements are new to the urban green-space structure, or whether they are existing components which require changes in layout or management due to evolving demands, design has an important part to play.
Bell, Simon   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Plot-based urbanism and urban morphometrics : measuring the evolution of blocks, street fronts and plots in cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Generative urban design has been always conceived as a creation-centered process, i.e. a process mainly concerned with the creation phase of a spatial transformation. We argue that, though the way we create a space is important, how that space evolves in
Da Fontoura Costa, Luciano   +6 more
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Virtual urban design

open access: yes, 2007
The application of virtual reality to cultural heritage, environment, and landscape planning is extremely useful to experiment various scenarios which could not be necessarily realised in the real world; both for educational and research purposes. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how 3D representations can be utilised as a valid support for ...
CECONELLO, MAURO ATTILIO, E. Paquet
openaire   +2 more sources

Examining trade-offs between social, psychological, and energy potential of urban form [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Urban planners are often challenged with the task of developing design solutions which must meet multiple, and often contradictory, criteria. In this paper, we investigated the trade-offs between social, psychological, and energy potential of the ...
Bielik, Martin   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

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