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Business parks: an overlooked urban object?
Territoire en Mouvement, 2022 The aim of this paper is to explore the extent to which business parks (zones d’activités économiques) are visible in urban development and planning. It examines a paradox: while business parks play an active role in contemporary urbanization, they have ...
Patricia Lejoux, Corentin Charieau
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Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Karaj Urban Parks [PDF]
جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2016 Green space as one of the users of urban space has an important place in adjustment and air purification and also the leisure and beautifying the urban landscape.
Ahmad PourAhmad +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Nature’s Neighborhood: The Housing Premium of Urban Parks in Dense Cities
LandUrban parks, a core component of urban landscapes, play a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of rapid urbanization and achieving sustainable urban development.
Siqi Feng +5 more
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Local and landscape drivers of bird community shifts in urban parks in a neotropical city
Acta Biológica ColombianaUrban growth affects bird community composition and diversity. However, these effects may vary based on urbanization level and season. We explored how local and landscape variables influenced urban avoiders, exploiters, and adapters birds during two ...
R. Carlos Almazán-Núñez +4 more
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