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Spatial Planning Strategies for Urban Ecology and Heritage Conservation in Macau: An Investigation of Ultra-High-Density Cities

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Urban ecology and heritage-protection space are important parts of urban land and should be highly emphasized in urban planning. Improving and upgrading the level of urban ecological and heritage-conservation space will directly affect the level of ...
Jitai Li, Fan Lin, Shuai Yang, Yile Chen
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A Taste for Trips out of Town: Urban Sprawl and Access to Open Space [PDF]

Residential development at the urban fringe raises the cost of trips to open space. We derive a simple expression for the tax that internalizes this effect of sprawl in a monocentric city andapply it using survey data on recreational activity.
Wouter Vermeulen, Jan Rouwendal
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The Construction of Ecological Functions of Urban Open Space

, 2011
Urban open space which maintaining the diversity of the urban ecosystem, is an important structural element of the city. Urban development led to the isolation of open space between one another, and the ecological function and environmental function of ...
Wei Dong, Yu Dong
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Efficiency of Public Goods Provision in Space [PDF]

This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model to predict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature by modeling the endogenous location of open space.
Travis Warziniack
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Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area [PDF]

, 2013
The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village ...
Zhang, F, Webster, C, Wu, F, Webster, CJ
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Driving forces and prediction of urban open spaces morphology: The case of Shanghai, China using geodetector and CA-Markov model

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Urban open spaces offer both environmental and social benefits. However, comprehensive studies that integrate both quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the factors driving change in these spaces and their long-term predictions are lacking.
Yaoyao Zhu, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling
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Space-time patterns of urban sprawl, a 1D cellular automata and microeconomic approach [PDF]

We present a theoretical model of residential growth that emphasizes the path-dependent nature of urban sprawl patterns. The model is founded on the monocentric urban economic model and uses a cellular automata (CA) approach to introduce endogenous ...
PEETERS  , Dominique, ROUNSEVELL, Mark, CAVAILHES, Jean, CARUSO, Geoffrey   +3 more
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Save Open Space

, 1973
A newsletter from the environmental group, Save Open Space, addressed to Dr. James White, chairman of Citizens' Organization for a Sound Trinity (COST), and his wife.
Save Open Space
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Assessing Open Space in Scotland: Reliability and Construct Validity of the Open Space Scale

, 2022
The design of open spaces is the subject of interest when searching for solutions to promote well-being and a better quality of life for dwellers, especially those who live in urban areas.
Andrew Yu, Stephanie Kwan Nga Lam
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The dimensions of urban public space in user’s mental image [PDF]

Urbani Izziv, 2006
The article presents a method for recognising qualitative and quantitative dimensions of open urban space in the user’s perceptual image. It stems from the hypothesis that the open urban space in mental perception isn’t a uniform continuum, which in ...
Matej Nikšič
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