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Urban landscape ecology and its evaluation : a review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Urban landscapes exhibit combinations of environmental features that are rarely encountered in non-urban settings resulting in habitat types, habitat associations and vegetation communities not found elsewhere.
Young, Christopher   +7 more
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Urban small sites – landscape ecology and contribution to urban greenspace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Urban areas are highly modified and complex landscapes, within which green spaces are seen as valuable for human well being as well as wildlife. Most studies evaluate the significance of the upper end of this spatial scale (>10ha), and ignore the smaller
Young, Christopher   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Urban Constraints, Political Imperatives: Environmental 'Design' in Singapore [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Landscape and Urban Planning251-237 ...
Kong, L.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Landscape Decoding in Urban City Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The European Landscape Convention, with great determination, has placed as a priority target, the necessity to promote a high level of attention to the landscape, as a common asset. According to the Convention each part of the landscape conveys meanings:
Caputi, Paride Giustino   +1 more
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Research on Mountain City Mountain and Water Repair Strategy [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The natural ecological environment is not only the basic condition of our human existence, but also the foundation of urban construction. The natural ecological environment restricts the development of cities.
Deng Hong, Long Junjie
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape Characteristics in Mountain Parks across Different Urban Gradients and Their Relationship with Public Response

open access: yes, 2023
Numerous researchers have demonstrated the positive impacts of urban green spaces on human physiology and psychology. In mountainous urban regions, mountains have often been preserved as green spaces during urban sprawl, owing to the limited costs ...
Yuanping Sheng   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing livelihood vulnerability using a Bayesian network: a case study in northern Laos

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
Agricultural transitions from subsistence to export-oriented production make households more reliant on volatile agricultural commodity markets and can increase households' exposure to crop price and yield shocks.
Victoria Junquera   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Fordist Production and Urban Industrial Land Use Patterns

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2021
Economic restructuring of the 21st century is changing the production methods and location requirements of most industries. Mass production on the outskirts of cities, as was common in 20th century Fordism, is largely being replaced by an economic model ...
Frank Roost, Elisabeth Jeckel
doaj   +1 more source

Capturing the Dynamic Character of the Philippine Peri-urban Landscape: A Landscape Character System Approach for the Region of Cavite [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
"CAPTURING THE DYNAMIC CHARACTER OF THE PHILIPPINE PERI-URBAN LANDSCAPE: A LANDSCAPE CHARACTER SYSTEM APPROACH FOR THE REGION OF CAVITE " is the landscape characterisation system dataset envisioned as a mapping tool that scans and demonstrates the ...
Nadal, Cathe Desire   +6 more
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Green System Development in the Medinas of Tunis and Marrakesh—Green Heritage and Urban Livability

open access: yesEarth, 2021
Due to their authentic urban and architectural character, the Medinas of Tunis and Marrakesh became listed among the United Nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization (UNESCO) heritage sites in 1979 and 1985, respectively.
Sarah Ben Salem   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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