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Small urban green areas

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021
Abstract This paper studies the size and location of small urban green areas across city spaces. Small urban green areas offer amenities that affect residential choices, land consumption and land rent. This paper discusses the land use and locations of those areas and the resulting residential space allocation.
T T H Tran
exaly   +4 more sources

Urban Neighborhood Green Index – A measure of green spaces in urban areas

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2012
Abstract Urban green spaces (UGS) form an integral part of any urban area and quantity and quality of UGS is of prime concern for planners and city administrators. Objective measure of greenness using remote sensing images is percentage area of green, i.e., Green Index (GI), which is insensitive to spatial arrangement within the areal units ...
Kshama Gupta
exaly   +2 more sources

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
exaly   +2 more sources

The Socioeconomic Welfare of Urban Green Areas and Parks; A Literature Review of Available Evidence

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Urban green areas present a lucid example for the harmonious co-existence of the artificial and natural environments best illustrated by their interdependence and interconnection in urban spaces.
Antonios Kolimenakis   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

A Welfare Evaluation of Green Urban Areas

open access: yes, 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantitative Relationship between Urban Green Canopy Area and Urban Greening Land Area

Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2021
Abstract The urban green space ratio (GSR) is the ratio of the urban greening land area to the built-up area and is an indicator for controlling land use for greening in urban development in China....
Jiening Wang   +4 more
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