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Landscape Urbanism and Green Infrastructure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This volume examines the applicability of landscape urbanism theory in contemporary landscape architecture practice by bringing together ecology and architecture in the built environment. Using participatory planning of green infrastructure and application of nature-based solutions to address urban challenges, landscape urbanism seeks to reintroduce ...
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The usage and perception of pedestrian and cycling streets on residents’ well-being in Kalamaria, Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Pedestrian zones are public spaces intended for the continued and safe mobility of pedestrians and people with disabilities, and they provide multiple benefits to urban areas. They counterbalance the densely built-up areas, decrease atmospheric pollution,
Kantartzis, Apostolos   +4 more
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Urban Green Infrastructure: German Experience

open access: yesVestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 3. Ekonomika. Ekologija., 2016
The paper presents a concept of urban green infrastructure and analyzes the features of its implementation in the urban development programmes of German cities. We analyzed the most shared articles devoted to the urban green infrastructure to see different approaches to definition of this term.
Diana Olegovna Dushkova   +1 more
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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT OF URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

open access: yesEconomic innovations, 2023
Topicality. Significant changes in the environment cause aggravation of ecological problems, especially in urban areas. At the same time, there is growing awareness of the need to stop negative processes in these territories by applying alternative methods and technologies of using natural components to solve various problems.
N.I. KHUMAROVA, L.M. CHERCHУK
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The urban environment : agendas and problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The United Nations estimate that by 2025 there will be around 5 billion people living in urban areas, more than the total world population 20 years ago.
Grierson, D.
core   +1 more source

Conceptual Model for Integrating the Green-Blue Infrastructure in Planning Using Geospatial Tools: Case Study of Bucharest, Romania Metropolitan Area

open access: yesLand, 2023
A green-blue infrastructure is essential for achieving the European Green Deal objectives and can be used to protect large cities and their metropolitan areas against urban sprawl.
Antonio-Valentin Tache   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Green Network Design: Defining green network from an urban planning perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
From the theoretical context of Smart City various studies have emerged that adopt an analytical approach and description of urban phenomena based on the principles of “network design”; this line of research uses the network systems theory to define ...
Tulisi, Andrea
core   +2 more sources

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green infrastructure and urban sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesAIP Conference Proceedings, 2018
Temperature increase in urban areas due to the urban heat island as well as the global climate change inevitably raises the peak load supply for space cooling as well as the risk of heat-related illness in hot climate. This paper provides the comprehensive review of the thermal mitigation effect of urban vegetation based on the field observations.
openaire   +1 more source

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