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Regenerating Urban Spaces under Place-specific Social Contexts: a Commentary on Green Infrastructures for Landscape Conservation [PDF]

, 2017
This study investigates the issue of green infrastructures in contemporary cities, adopting a strategic vision for increasingly complex metropolitan regions.
Bianconi, Fabio, Clemente, Matteo, Filippucci, Marco, Salvati, Luca   +3 more
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Measuring place rather than space: integrating landscape qualities for the urban–rural gradient using people’s perceptions and machine learning

Journal of Land Use Science
This study applies a generalisable method for measuring place across a large urban-rural landscape by combining subjective and objective data for 7,008 locations in the Utrecht region, the Netherlands. A representative online survey (N = 10,042) was used
Michal Switalski, Maarten Van Strien, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey   +2 more
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Pathway for Renewable Energy Application in Urban Green Space under the Low Carbon Perspective

Fengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveIn the context of global climate change and the ongoing transition of energy structures, promoting the application of renewable energy in urban green spaces has become a crucial strategy for achieving carbon neutrality and sustainable urban ...
Kailun WANG, Tonggang NIU, Lian LIU, Zhongjie WANG   +3 more
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An urban take on sustainable development policies and corresponding positioning strategies

npj Urban Sustainability, 2023
Cities have emerged as policy actors of global relevance in sustainable development, and their strengthened position challenges the primacy of national states in this area. To account for this shift and for potential emerging contestations between cities
Stefan Wittwer, Katrin Hofer, David Kaufmann   +2 more
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The Cooling Effects of Landscape Configurations of Green–Blue Spaces in Urban Waterfront Community

Atmosphere, 2023
Optimizing the configuration of green–blue spaces is crucial in mitigating the urban heat island effect. However, many existing studies neglect to consider the synergistic cooling effect of green–blue space and its spatial comparison, focusing instead on
Min Wang, Haoyang Song, Wen Zhu, Yuncai Wang   +3 more
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Urban agriculture and sustainable urban landscape. An applied research on two case studies (Madagascar and Senegal) [PDF]

, 2010
In developing countries, like in Madagascar and Senegal facing high rates of urbanisation, urban agriculture is progressively taken into account in urban planning.
Aubry, Christine, Ba, Awa, Dabat, Marie-Hélène, Ramamonjisoa, Josélyne   +3 more
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The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks [PDF]

, 2009
An ecological framework seeks to maintain ecological processes in the wider landscape and to conserve ecosystems, habitats, species, genetic diversity, and landscapes of importance.
Clark, Peter, Niemelä, Jari, Niemi, Marjaana   +2 more
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Clean and Green Urban Water Bodies Benefit Nocturnal Flying Insects and Their Predators, Insectivorous Bats [PDF]

, 2020
Nocturnal arthropods form the prey base for many predators and are an integral part of complex food webs. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms influencing invertebrates at urban water bodies and the potential flow-on effects to their
Buchholz, Sascha, Lentini, Pia E., Lumsden, Linda F., Straka, Tanja M., van der Ree, Rodney, Wintle, Brendan A.   +5 more
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang, Atakan Tevlek, Pawel L. Urban, Boaz Mizrahi, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Roshan Deen, Yuanjing Lin, Jagan Mohan Dodda   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and urban design of maritime public spaces in Mediterranean Arab cities [PDF]

, 2013
The traditional urban fabrics in Arab cities along the Mediterranean coast offer an exceptional 'urban lab' to study climatic design, urban patterns and forms applied in public realms.
Suau, Cristian
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