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Children's playgrounds contain more microplastics than other areas in urban parks.
Science of the Total Environment, 2022Children spend many hours in urban parks and playgrounds, where the tree canopy could filter microplastics released from the surrounding urban hotspots.
Vera S. Koutnik +7 more
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Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Parks have become important spaces for supplying cultural ecosystem services (CESs) in cities, and satisfying various needs of different age groups in parks has become a critical issue. Many studies focused on the environmental preferences and behaviours
Kaili Zhang +11 more
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Parks have become important spaces for supplying cultural ecosystem services (CESs) in cities, and satisfying various needs of different age groups in parks has become a critical issue. Many studies focused on the environmental preferences and behaviours
Kaili Zhang +11 more
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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 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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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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On the soundscape of urban parks
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011Urban parks are parts of every city fabric and usually well appreciated by the citizens for providing restoration and some “quiet,” at least when compared to most other city areas. Research on the soundscape of parks in cities in Portugal and in Brazil have been conducted in order to assess what makes such areas sonically interesting.
J. Luis Bento Coelho, Mohammed Boubezari
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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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A Theory of Urban Park Geography
Journal of Leisure Research, 2008A theory of urban park values is presented Using the theory of island biogeography as an analogue. The theory predicts that two factors-the size of park and distance from concentrated human habitation-influence the diversity of park values. The theory posits the diversity of human values for parks will increase with park size while the diversity of ...
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 1988
Abstract One reason why urban parks and open spaces are subject to development pressure is that planners and researchers have been unable to articulate their value in economic terms. Three valuation techniques — each with its own strengths and weaknesses — have been applied to urban parks.
MORE, TA, STEVENS, T, Allen, PG
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Abstract One reason why urban parks and open spaces are subject to development pressure is that planners and researchers have been unable to articulate their value in economic terms. Three valuation techniques — each with its own strengths and weaknesses — have been applied to urban parks.
MORE, TA, STEVENS, T, Allen, PG
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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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