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Land, 2022 As the impermeable sidewalk area increases in urban areas, diverse problems related to water occur. The purposes of this research were to increase the rainwater infiltration rate through water balance analysis and estimate the runoff coefficient ...
Jinkwan Son, Taegeun Kwon
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The Public Value of Urban Parks [PDF]
, 2004 Looks at the traditional and emerging views on the mission of parks -- their value as open spaces and recreational facilities, innovative programs and partnerships -- as a demonstration of how parks can advance broader public policy ...
Christoper Walker
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Land, 2022 Urban parks are important places for residents to engage in physical activity (PA). Properly designed fitness facilities play a positive role in the PA level of park users. We conducted a quantitative evaluation of urban park systems based on the revised
Yunxi Tian +5 more
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Urban Parks as Partners in Youth Development [PDF]
, 2004 Details how parks can contribute to the latest thinking about effective youth development programs, with a move beyond the traditional view of parks as venues for ...
Margery Austin Turner
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Mitigating Urban Heat Islands in Wuhan: The Role of Urban Parks Over the Past Five Years [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesIn recent years, the urban heat island effect has emerged as a significant challenge in global urban planning and environmental management. The impact of urban parks, as integral components of urban green space systems, on mitigating the heat island ...
She Jian
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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 +3 more
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Distributional Welfare Impacts of Public Spending: The Case of Urban versus National Parks
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004 This study examines the optimal allocation of funds between national and urban parks. Since travel costs to national parks are significantly higher than to urban parks, poor households tend to visit the latter more frequently, whereas rich households ...
Eli Feinerman +2 more
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Spatial-temporal Patterns of Urban Parks' Effects on the Sentiments and Their Associated Factors Based on Social Media Data--a Case Study in Beijing [PDF]
Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation ScienceAs the pivotal green space, urban parks play an important role in urban residents' daily activities. Thy can not only bring people physical health, but also can be more likely to elicit positive sentiment to those who visit them.
YUAN Yuting, WANG Juan, WEI Yali, ZHU Yanrong, SHI Changsheng, MENG Bin
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022 The primary dengue virus vectors, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, are primarily daytime biting mosquitoes. The risk of infection is suspected to be considerable in urban parks due to visitor traffic.
Trang Thi Thuy Huynh, Noboru Minakawa
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Urban park characteristics, genetic variation, and historical demography of white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City [PDF]
, 2014 Severe fragmentation is a typical fate of native remnant habitats in cities, and urban wildlife with limited dispersal ability are predicted to lose genetic variation in isolated urban patches. However, little information exists on the characteristics of
Christopher Nagy, Jason Munshi-South
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