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Green Roadways in Urban Areas

2013
Now more than ever, stakeholders in urban areas want to be involved in shaping transportation infrastructure to be compatible with community objectives. For green roadways in urban areas, streets should enhance mobility choices and complement and reinforce community character, livability, and sustainability.
James L. Sipes, Matthew L. Sipes
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Seasonal variations in the cooling effect of urban green areas on surrounding urban areas

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2010
Abstract We measured air temperature in an urban green area that includes forest and grassland and in the surrounding urban area for a full year in Nagoya, central Japan, to elucidate seasonal variations of the difference in air temperature between urban and green areas.
Takeshi Ohta
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Smart Stormwater Management in Urban Areas by Roofs Greening

2017
By 2050 the world population will grow to about 9 billion contributing to deep changes in urban areas structure. This would increase the effect of water deficiency and along with projected climate changes the impact of urban floodings, urban heat islands or drought. Smart cities could be key part of the solution contributing to improve the quality life
MOBILIA, MIRKA, LONGOBARDI, Antonia
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A hedonic valuation of urban green areas

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2003
This paper analyses the link between housing prices and urban green areas endowments using the hedonic technique as methodological approach. Together with the conventional variables used to explain housing prices, three environmental variables are considered: the existence of views of a park or a public garden, the distance from the dwelling to its ...
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Urban green network for the urban area of Milagro, Guayas, Ecuador

AHFE International, 2022
Currently, a large part of the urban population resides in cities where there is little or almost no relationship between nature and the urban environment, which is a fundamental parameter for achieving quality of life for people. On the other hand, the disorderly and accelerated growth of informal settlements in search of different economic activities
Diego Maruri, Gabriela Vega
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The Green Environment of Inner Urban Areas

Environmental Conservation, 1978
Whilst the quality of the built-up environment of inner cities has received and is receiving considerable attention from politicians, architects, planners, and sociologists, the quality of the green environment has been and is being widely ignored.The need for a quasi-natural environment is generally alien to urban thinking, where the emphasis has been,
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Geographical Stratification of Green Urban Areas

2020
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PICARD, Pierre M, TRAN, Thi Thu Huyen
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NATIVE MEDITERRANEAN CISTUS SPECIES FOR URBAN GREEN AREAS

Acta Horticulturae, 2010
The landscaping and gardening with native Mediterranean ornamentalspecies of wild flora are a very interesting possibility to have plants largely resistantto environmental stress, quite frequent in the urban area. Cistus plants are evergreenwoody shrubs and their blooms are profuse and attractive.
LI ROSI A, DI GREGORIO R, TOSCANO S, ROMANO, Daniela Maura Maria   +3 more
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A Welfare Evaluation of Green Urban Areas

2020
Urban green areas cover more than 6% of urban land in Europe. This paper quan-tifies the impact of urban green areas on city structures for more than 300 Europeancities. It discusses the economic effects of the local amenity produced by green urbanareas using an urban economics model with various set of preferences.
PICARD, Pierre M, Tran, Huyen
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Urban Green Oases and Recreational Areas

1991
The most important task for redevelopment in the next decades everywhere in the world will be the improvement of living conditions in big cities. The revitalizing of old and new city districts and residential quarters, as well as the redesigning of squares, courtyards and gaps between buildings have all taken on a new significance.
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