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Revealing the differences of urban parks’ services to human wellbeing based upon social media data
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021Urban green spaces provide a range of services to urban residents; however, how these distinct spaces provide different services, if any, to human wellbeing has been seldom addressed. Using large volumes of social media data considering broad user groups
Zhifang Wang +5 more
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Landscape Journal, 2022
Parks play a critical role in the health and well-being of people in urban environments. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the importance of public parks, particularly in cities.
Jessica Fernandez +3 more
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Parks play a critical role in the health and well-being of people in urban environments. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the importance of public parks, particularly in cities.
Jessica Fernandez +3 more
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021
A disparity in the distribution and quality of urban parks has been widely recognized as an important environmental justice issue. There is currently inconsistent evidence focusing on park distribution in high-density cities that can shed light on ...
Ru Zhang +4 more
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A disparity in the distribution and quality of urban parks has been widely recognized as an important environmental justice issue. There is currently inconsistent evidence focusing on park distribution in high-density cities that can shed light on ...
Ru Zhang +4 more
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Perceptions of park visitors on access to urban parks and benefits of green spaces
, 2021There has been limited research on understanding access to public green spaces in cities of the global South. In a study in Hyderabad, India, we interview visitors in four parks to understand their perceptions of and access to ecosystem services.
Sukanya Basu, H. Nagendra
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Perception of urban park soundscape
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012A number of studies have been initiated to explore how to improve the soundscape quality in urban parks. However, good soundscape quality in parks cannot be provided without a thorough understanding of the complex relationships among sound, environment, and individuals. As acoustic comfort is considered to be an important outcome of soundscape quality,
Tse, Man Sze +5 more
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1978
The primary objective of this study, undertaken at the request of Community Planning Boards of New York City, was to develop recommendations for improving the design of Bryant Park (Figure 45). Originally designed in 1934, the park offered a unique opportunity to assess the relevance of design principles and assumptions from the 1930s in the context of
Anita R. Nager, Wally R. Wentworth
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The primary objective of this study, undertaken at the request of Community Planning Boards of New York City, was to develop recommendations for improving the design of Bryant Park (Figure 45). Originally designed in 1934, the park offered a unique opportunity to assess the relevance of design principles and assumptions from the 1930s in the context of
Anita R. Nager, Wally R. Wentworth
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, 2021
This paper studies the effects of park and surrounding building configuration on thermal comfort in parks. Simulation models have been formulated using ENVI-met to evaluate the thermal comfort during sunlit and non-sunlit periods for both summer and ...
Sin Yi Chan, C. Chau
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This paper studies the effects of park and surrounding building configuration on thermal comfort in parks. Simulation models have been formulated using ENVI-met to evaluate the thermal comfort during sunlit and non-sunlit periods for both summer and ...
Sin Yi Chan, C. Chau
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 This article analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis considers three different regimes for provision of parking space: surface parking, underground parking, and structural ...
Jan K. Brueckner, Sofia F. Franco
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The motivation and factors influencing visits to small urban parks in Shanghai, China
, 2021In densely populated cities with high-rise buildings, large green spaces are a limited resource, and it is hard to visit large green spaces frequently due to long distance from places of residence. Small Urban Green Space (SUGS) in dense city areas might
Pengwei Wang +3 more
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2016
This paper explores the question of how urban parks function as urban icons. It examines Bicentennial Park in Homebush Bay, 12 km west of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) as a case study. Bicentennial Park was planned and designed between 1983 and 1988, a time when Australia, and its cities in particular, grappled with tensions between ...
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This paper explores the question of how urban parks function as urban icons. It examines Bicentennial Park in Homebush Bay, 12 km west of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) as a case study. Bicentennial Park was planned and designed between 1983 and 1988, a time when Australia, and its cities in particular, grappled with tensions between ...
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