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Modeling the dynamics and walking accessibility of urban open spaces under various policy scenarios

, 2021
Open spaces (OSs) in urban areas play a vital role in providing space for habitat conservation and recreation, improving the mental health of urbanites. OSs consist of complicated elements, such as parks, green landscapes and public squares.
Xun Liang   +7 more
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Integrating urban blue and green areas based on historical evidence

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2018
The reduced proportion of open and especially green and blue spaces is one of the major threats experienced by cities. Scholars advocate for strategies to enhance green spaces in cities, but less attention is given to urban blue infrastructure, which ...
I. Ioja   +7 more
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The shading effects of Green Infrastructure in private residential areas: Building Performance Simulation to support urban planning

, 2020
Over the past decades, intense urbanization processes have produced built environments with a low energy efficiency and a severe lack of green spaces, which represent the main providers of ecosystem services in cities and play a relevant role in ...
M. Palme, Riccardo Privitera, D. Rosa
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The Use of Fruit Trees in Urban Open Green Areas of Erzurum

2021
As in many countries, as a result of the rapid population growth in Turkey, distorted urbanization occurs in cities. Due to this process, the people of the city are becoming deprived of nature day by day. For the urban people who want to find opportunities to meet the need for recreation but cannot find it in urban living spaces, residential gardens ...
AYKUN DİKMEN, Betül, YILMAZ, Hasan
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A Study on Invasive Plant Species in Rize Urban Open Green Areas

2022
Kentsel açık ve yeşil alanların en önemli unsuru olarak bitkiler kent ekosistemine sundukları birçok önemli faydanın yanı sıra sahip oldukları bazı özellikler ile çevrelerine olumsuz etkilerde de bulunabilirler. İstila ettikleri ekosistemde yerel türlerin dağılımını ve çeşitliliğini olumsuz yönde etkileyerek ekolojik problemlere ve ekonomik zararlara ...
ÇORBACI, Ömer Lütfü   +2 more
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Evaluation of Edible Plants in Urban Open Green Areas: The Case of Kahramanmaraş

2022
With the increase in the rate of construction in cities, open green areas, which provide many environmental, social, and economic benefits, are rapidly decreasing. In addition, the high food demand of the increasing population has paved the way for alternative landscape applications.
ÇORBACI, Ömer Lütfü, EKREN, Erdi
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Testing urban dwellers' sense of place towards leisure and recreational peri-urban green open spaces in two European cities

, 2020
This study uses sense of place to empirically compare, in two case study cities, how people connect with the peri-urban green space which they visit most often for their leisure activities.
Vita Žlender, Stefano Gemin
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Green areas in open urban spaces

2005
The paper consists in two parts: the first is about the effects of vegetation on microclimate in urban areas. Experimental data in different contexts case studies- are analysed in order to define strategies for cooling. The second part deal with a plant data base which the authors are elaborating to aid designers in the selection and use of plants ...
MARINO, Donatella   +2 more
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Urban green open space in developing countries: Indonesia regulations, problems and alternative solutions

Journal of Property Planning and Environmental Law
Purpose This paper aims to work toward a new approach in providing green open spaces in the middle of urban land in Indonesia that has been densely built up and on it has attached land rights. An approach is needed through a specific spatial policy that
M. Priyanta   +1 more
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Sustainable strategy of green open space in reducing stress levels in urban areas

Journal of Placemaking and Streetscape Design
Background: Cities around the world are facing increasing challenges related to high levels of stress in urban areas. One strategy that has been proposed to overcome this problem is the development of Green Open Space with a sustainable approach. This study aims to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of sustainable strategies for developing green ...
Abdi Nusa Persada Nababan   +1 more
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