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Support Vector Machine Accuracy Assessment for Extracting Green Urban Areas in Towns

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
The most commonly used model for analyzing satellite imagery is the Support Vector Machine (SVM). Since there are a large number of possible variables for use in SVM, this paper will provide a combination of parameters that fit best for extracting green ...
Nikola Kranjčić   +2 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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   +3 more
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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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Bicycles for green mobility in urban areas

2018
ABSTRACT: The last few years have seen many countries focusing on sustainability in their developmental agenda. In developed countries the cycling policy has in recent years evolved from a peripheral matter into one to be considered as a priority, in line with the policies for other means of transport.
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Planning of urban green areas of Štip [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
The setup structure of functions for holiday and re creation in spare time of the citizens is a great worth. The needs of the urban population for rest and recreation are becoming larger, thus increasing the need for design and planning of green spaces (parks, gardens, etc.) not only in cities but also in their immediate environment.
Despot, Katerina   +3 more
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