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Plant native: comparing biodiversity benefits, ecosystem services provisioning, and plant performance of native and non-native plants in urban horticulture

open access: yesUrban Ecosystems
Plant species used in urban horticulture are frequently non-native despite evidence that urban areas are regular points of introduction, often leading to invasions and negative impacts on biodiversity. Many horticulturalists assert that non-native plants
Elena S. Tartaglia, Myla F. J. Aronson
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Ageing and population shrinking: implications for sustainability in the urban century

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability, 2021
Population ageing and shrinking are demographic phenomena with far-reaching implications for sustainability in the current context of extensive and rapid urbanization.
M. Jarzebski   +16 more
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Cost Analyse Of Superstructure In Istanbul Urban Transportation Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2008Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2008Bu çalışma, Ulaşım Ana Planı göz önünde bulundurularak, İstanbul il sınırları ...
Dedehayır, Emin Ali
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Designing urban green spaces for climate adaptation: A critical review of research outputs

open access: yesUrban Climate, 2022
Urban green spaces provide important contributions to enhance climate adaptation, and therefore research in this area has increased exponentially in the last decades.
M. Graça   +3 more
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Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research

open access: yesUrban Geography
New digital technologies and systems are being extensively applied in urban contexts. These technologies and systems include algorithms, robotics, drones, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and autonomous systems that can collectively be labelled as Artificial ...
Federico Caprotti   +6 more
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Why don’t people plant trees? Uncovering barriers to participation in urban tree planting initiatives

open access: yesUrban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022
Urban tree cover is inequitable in many American cities, with low-income and non-white neighborhoods typi- cally having the least coverage. Some municipal and non-profit tree planting programs aim to address this inequity by targeting low-income ...
Elizabeth Riedman   +5 more
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Governing sustainable transformations of urban social-ecological-technological systems

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability, 2022
Cities have grown rapidly—while they provide opportunities for many, they must also confront pervasive and rising inequality, unsustainable consumption, and growing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.
E. Krueger   +5 more
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Effects of urban parks on residents’ expressed happiness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesLandscape and Urban Planning, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted human health worldwide. In these unprecedented times, the benefits of urban parks for residents have gained attention. However, few studies have explored the effects of urban parks on residents’ expressed happiness from
Yingyi Cheng   +3 more
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Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can resilience measurement tools play?

open access: yesUrban Climate, 2022
Cities are emerging as leading forces for climate change adaptation and resilience. Many approaches and tools have been developed and used to measure climate resilience in cities.
Sara Mehryar, Idan Sasson, S. Surminski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few milliseconds of visual stimulus processing sheds light on the historically ambiguous topic of aesthetic experience.
Aenne Brielmann   +3 more
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