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Does urban sprawl lessen green space exposure? Evidence from Chinese cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Yang Chen, Daniele La Rosa, Wenze Yue
Maintaining universal exposure to green space is one of the crucial tasks in building livable cities. However, the prevalence of urban expansion in the past few decades worldwide has resulted in uneven exposure to green space as a spatial concomitant of disordered urban development. Previous literature has mainly focused on examining the impacts of biophysical conditions, socio-economic development
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Accessible, and culturally responsive: Why we need to examine diverse plant uses and values in green infrastructure Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Lucero Radonic, Valeria Galindo, Karen Hanshaw, Flor Sandoval
As green infrastructure (GI) proliferates as an adaptation strategy to living with increasing temperatures in urban areas, these initiatives may impact how people differentially experience the local climate and health benefits of urban greening. Scholars have studied the uneven distribution of urban greenery, but less attention has been paid to diverse plant uses and values by different sectors of
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Planting contexts affect urban tree species classification using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Dengkai Chi, Jingli Yan, Kang Yu, Felix Morsdorf, Ben Somers
Different urban planting contexts, such as streets and parks, can lead to significant intraspecific biochemical and structural variations in trees. These variations present challenges for remote sensing-based tree species classification and effective urban forest management. However, few studies have explored how planting contexts influence the accuracy of remote sensing-based tree species identification
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Land use and land cover conflict risk assessment model: Social and spatial impact of suburbanisation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Katarzyna Cegielska, Renata Różycka-Czas, Julia Gorzelany, Barbara Olczak
Today’s cities grow at the interface of urbanised and open areas. Their impact zones depend on their size and role in the settlement structure. Unplanned urban growth often leads to land-use patterns that conflict with sustainable development principles. This can spark local land use and land cover (LULC) conflicts.
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Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Thomas Seth Davis, John Mola, Nathan Comai
Wild bee populations are threatened by habitat fragmentation and land-use change, but few development plans consider resource competition. However, managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) are often introduced to residential areas by hobbyist beekeepers, placing potential competitive pressure on wild bees. We sampled bee-plant interactions from natural reserves across the peri-urban landscape of Fort Collins
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Optimizing green space-building landscape characteristics of key urban functional zones for comprehensive thermal environment mitigation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Zhifeng Wu, Ying Wang, Yin Ren
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect has garnered significant attention due to its detrimental effects, such as increased near-surface temperatures, reduced resident comfort, heat-related illnesses, and damage to urban ecosystems. While strategies including expanding green spaces, optimizing building layouts, adjusting vegetation, and using high-albedo materials are known to mitigate urban thermal conditions
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Assessing accessibility and crowding in urban green spaces: A comparative study of approaches Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Barbara Czesak, Renata Różycka-Czas
Urban green spaces (UGS) are pivotal elements of the structure of urbanised areas, important for the well-being of the city inhabitants. Therefore, it is necessary to provide tools for determining the accessibility and crowdedness of the UGS. To this end, we assess how much space there is for potential UGS users in individual green spaces. It is pilot quantitative study limited to an area of one city
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Planning for transformative change with nature-based solutions: A geodesign application in Stockholm Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Blal Adem Esmail, Chiara Cortinovis, Sigvard Bast, Carl C. Anderson, Lina Suleiman, Gustavo Arciniegas, Davide Geneletti, Ulla Mörtberg, Christian Albert
Advancing towards urban futures in which both human communities and ecosystems can thrive requires transformative change (TC). Spatial planning can serve as a backbone for inspiring and fostering the desired transformation of cities. However, to support this transformation, the challenge for spatial planning is to create unconventional plans that account for the complex trade-offs and interactions
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Greening the city: An analysis of socio-spatial disparities through urban gardening practices in Lille and Lyon (France) Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Amélie DESCHAMPS
Over the past three decades, urban gardening initiatives have proliferated in cities. The community garden has emerged as a global model for participatory urban greening. To date, few studies have engaged on greening licenses. These schemes have emerged in French cities along community gardens to green the interstices of urban space, such as the feet of trees or holes in pavements. The role of urban
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Monitoring sustainability of urban agriculture: Who is going to do it and how? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-19 Sebastian Eiter, Wendy Fjellstad, Loes Van Schaik
Urban agriculture is often considered a tool to increase the economic, social and environmental sustainability of cities and city food systems. However, sustainability is difficult to measure, resulting in debate about how sustainable urban agriculture truly is. There is therefore a lack of incentive to promote urban agriculture or protect existing initiatives that are threatened by development pressure
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Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Zsuzsanna MÁRTON, Barbara BARTA, Csaba F. VAD, Beáta SZABÓ, Andrew J. HAMER, Vivien KARDOS, Csilla LASKAI, Ádám FIERPASZ, Zsófia HORVÁTH
The rapid expansion of urban areas often leads to degradation, fragmentation, and loss of natural habitats, threatening biodiversity. While urban ponds might contribute substantially to the biodiversity of urban blue-green infrastructure, the role of garden ponds is still largely unknown. We lack a comprehensive understanding of how local habitat features, different forms of management, and urbanisation
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Combining spatial clustering and spatial regression models to understand distributional inequities in access to urban green spaces Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Bruno Vargas Adorno, Rafael H.M. Pereira, Silvana Amaral
Proximity to urban green spaces offers numerous benefits, sparking increased research and policy interest in equitable access for different population groups. While spatial analyses evaluate access to urban green space, previous studies overlook fine-grained spatial disparities, needed for targeted urban planning. Spatial clustering models (Local Indicators of Spatial Association – LISA) group values
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Spatially-optimized greenspace for more effective urban heat mitigation: Insights from regional cooling heterogeneity via explainable machine learning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Shuliang Ren, Zhou Huang, Ganmin Yin, Xiaoqin Yan, Quanhua Dong, Junnan Qi, Jiangpeng Zheng, Yi Bao, Shiyi Zhang
Urban greenspaces (UGS) are increasingly recognised as crucial for mitigating urban heat exposure in advancing sustainable development goals. However, limited understanding of spatial heterogeneity in cooling effects hinders optimizing UGS benefits. Moreover, most studies focus solely on relationship exploration, lacking comprehensive assessment frameworks for practical decision-making. We propose
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Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-14 Meng Li, Roy P. Remme, Peter M. van Bodegom, Alexander P.E. van Oudenhoven
In response to multiple societal challenges faced in cities, nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining prominence as means to support sustainable and resilient urban planning. However, NbS are being implemented in cities around the globe without comprehensive evidence on their effectiveness in addressing urban challenges. Based on a systematic mapping methodology, we synthesized 547 empirical cases
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Assessing the impact of homeowner associations’ pro-environmental codes, covenants, and restrictions on member yards Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Madeline F. Carr, Daniel Boyd Kramer, David Drake
Homeowner’s associations (HOAs) use their codes covenants, and restrictions (CCRs) to regulate yard composition. A small but growing number of HOAs include clauses in their CCRs with pro-environmental aims. This study assessed the effect of native plant requirement and lawn restriction pro-environmental clauses (PECs) on yard composition. Using front yard surveys, we found a greater mean percent cover
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Preferring Local over Non-Local Parks? Green Space Visit Patterns by Urban Residents in Desert Cities, Arizona Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Jieun Kim, Youngjae Won, Yushim Kim, Elizabeth Corley
This study investigates whether residents in urban neighborhoods use nearby green spaces more frequently than distant ones. Using mobile phone tracking data from 2019, we analyzed visitation patterns to green spaces within walking distance of residence (i.e., local parks) in the Phoenix-Mesa urbanized area, Arizona, USA. Key findings include: (1) about 40% of neighborhoods with available local parks
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Urban heat mitigation through misting, and its role in broader blue infrastructure portfolios Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-02 Xinjie Huang, Elie Bou-Zeid, Jennifer K. Vanos, Ariane Middel, Prathap Ramamurthy
Evaporative misters have long been used in urban spaces for heat mitigation, yet their thermal stress impacts and optimal operating conditions have not been fully explored. To fill this gap, we develop a misting model and embed it into an urban canopy model for the first time. Our tests confirm that misters can considerably reduce maximum urban canyon air temperature (up to 17.5 °C) and human skin
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How sensory stimuli and barrier-free environments through restorative environmental perception influence visually impaired Individuals’ satisfaction with urban parks Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Minhui Lin, Xinyun Lin, Yajun Wang
The well-being and holistic development of visually impaired individuals (VII) are fundamental requisites for constructing more inclusive cities, and they necessitate the provision of environments that are more conducive to the habitation of the VII. The restorative experiences of the VII within urban parks play a pivotal role in fostering their physical and mental health; however, this domain has
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Measuring the effectiveness of street renewal design: Insights from visual preference surveys, deep-learning technology, and eye-tracking simulation software Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-28 Rong Liu, Paulina Neisch
This study investigates the impact of urban renewal projects (URPs) on the visual quality of street space (VQoS) through the evaluation of both psychological and visual perception, addressing the significant gap in empirical evidence. Analysing fifty-one URPs in densely populated Asian cities with complex urban settings, it assesses how measurable changes in spatial features such as greenness, walkability
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Availability is not enough, but visitation and usage matter: Assessing associations between natural environments and depressive and anxiety symptoms Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-28 Yuliang Lan, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Marco Helbich
Few studies have simultaneously considered nature availability and visitation frequency in nature-mental health research, with even fewer distinguished different types of green and blue spaces.
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Impacts of imageability of architecture on brain health: A systematic literature review Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-27 Cristian A. Maestre, Shana Garza, Yohany Albornoz, Silvia Mejia-Arango, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Gladys E. Maestre
Imageability is a component of urban design and planning that has been recognized for its potential to enhance people’s perceptual and emotional engagement with their environment. Nevertheless, evidence supporting specific strategies and its mpacts on brain health is still unclear. This systematic review aimed to characterize and summarize the evidence on the importance of imageability of architecture
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Methods for quantifying the cooling effect of urban green spaces using remote sensing: A comparative study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-24 Wen Zhou, Yiqi Yu, Shihan Zhang, Jie Xu, Tao Wu
The cooling effect of urban green space (UGS) and its influencing factors have been extensively studied. However, the related results are sporadic, irregular, and even contradictory, which largely prevented the application of results to practical actions. One of the main reason may be the lack of consistency in the literature regarding the method used to quantify the cooling effect of UGS. In this
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Insufficient space: Prioritizing large tree species and planting designs still fail to meet urban forest canopy targets Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-21 Paticia Rettondini Torquato, Christopher Szota, Amy K. Hahs, Stefan K. Arndt, Stephen J. Livesley
The benefits associated with urban forests have led municipalities to set ambitious canopy cover targets to be achieved over the next few decades. Identifying tree species and planting strategies that can achieve these targets is crucial. We applied species-specific tree crown growth models for 20 species commonly planted in Melbourne, Australia to simulate canopy cover increase in newly developed
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Nature in nature-based solutions in urban planning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-20 Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira
There has been a surge of academic studies on nature-based solutions in the last decades, reflecting the growing view that nature can help us address the climate and the ecological crises. While definitions of nature-based solutions are commonly referenced in the literature, “nature” itself is rarely defined. This article investigates the ideas of nature in nature-based solutions discourses in urban
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A hybrid framework for assessing outdoor thermal comfort in large-scale urban environments Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Siqi Jia, Yuhong Wang, Nyuk Hien Wong, Qihao Weng
Given the challenges posed by rapid urbanization and global warming, outdoor thermal comfort has become crucial for urban livability. However, there is a lack of field survey-based research on large-scale thermal comfort assessment across continuous urban spaces. To address this gap, this study developed a framework for assessing outdoor thermal comfort. A total number of 668 onsite observations from
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Urban equity of park use in peri-urban areas during the Covid-19 pandemic Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Yangyi Wu, Yehua Dennis Wei, Meitong Liu, Ivis García
Studies of parks underscore the significance of park equity, considering both its quantity and quality. However, the vulnerability of peri-urban communities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic concerning park utilization, goes beyond what objective assessments of access and quality can capture. Based on a multidimensional and comparative framework and combining objective evaluation and subjective
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Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Laura Schillé, Alain Paquette, Gabriel Marcotte, Hugo Ouellet, Swane Cobus, Luc Barbaro, Bastien Castagneyrol
Urbanization is one of the main drivers of biotic homogenization in bird communities worldwide. Yet, only a few studies have addressed its functional consequences on the top-down control birds exert on insect herbivores. We hypothesized that their inconsistent results reflect the overlooked heterogeneity of the urban habitat for birds, and in particular the distribution and diversity of urban trees
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Dietary diversification of an insect predator along an urban-rural gradient Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Carolin Scholz, Tobias Teige, Kevine P. Ngoufack Djoumessi, Sascha Buchholz, Fabienne Pritsch, Aimara Planillo, Christian C. Voigt
Urbanisation generally leads to a loss of taxonomic and functional diversity in almost all animal taxa, yet a mosaic of highly variable habitats within the urban matrix could offer a diversity of insect prey to highly mobile predators such as bats. We therefore asked if insect-feeding bats change in trophic interactions along rural–urban gradients.
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An audience segmentation study of native plant gardening behaviors in the United States Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Veronica M. Champine, Kaiya Tamlyn, Megan S. Jones, Meena M. Balgopal, Brett Bruyere, Jennifer N. Solomon, Rebecca M. Niemiec
Audience segmentation can be used to identify target audiences in environmental public engagement and communication, but few studies have used segmentation to study biodiversity conservation behavior. This study used segmentation to better understand perceptions and behaviors around different types of actions related to native plant gardening. With a United States representative survey (n = 1,200)
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Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Atticus W. Murphy, Elizabeth E. Crone
Flower gardens can create valuable habitat for urban pollinators, but little is known about the existing spatial pattern of gardens on the landscape, or factors associated with the decision to plant a flower garden. We mapped the distribution of front yard flower gardens compared to four other front yard landscaping types (lawn, shrubs, non-vegetated, and weeds) across 86,429 addresses in Greater Boston
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Revealing future effectiveness of protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Fengze Lin, Mingjian Zhu, Xinyi Dong, Shiyu Ling, Bo Luan, Guoliang Pan
The biodiversity of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is increasingly under threat due to anthropogenic stressors and climate change challenges, despite 15.72% of the landscape being planned as protected areas (PAs). The uncertain risks of high-density urban sprawl and sea level rise pose challenges for future biodiversity conservation in the GBA. To effectively gauge the impact
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A greener Green Belt? Co-developing exploratory scenarios for contentious peri-urban landscapes Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Matthew G. Kirby, Alister J. Scott, Claire L. Walsh
Peri-urban landscapes experience conflicting land-use demands from co-occurring urban–rural drivers. In England, Green Belts are urban containment policies which impact on the peri-urban in isolation from the wider landscapes they cover. Green Belts’ endurance in planning policy have resulted in a contentious and politicised policy arena, under significant scrutiny. Whilst research has shown heterogeneous
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Who values urban open spaces? investigating heterogeneity in the capitalization of open space in New York city Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-25 Liqing Li, Mitchell R. Livy
Given the constraints on local budgets and the availability of urban land, understanding how different urban green spaces are valued by diverse residents is crucial for making informed urban land use decisions. We estimate the heterogeneity in housing price capitalizations of various open space classes in New York City using a hedonic price model. Our findings reveal that the capitalization of open
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The planning of urban–rural linkages: An automated content analysis of spatial plans adopted by European intermediate cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-23 Theresia Morandell, Michael Wicki, David Kaufmann
Rapidly advancing urbanization increasingly deepens cities’ interdependencies with surrounding suburban and rural territories, leading to unique planning challenges. Yet, there is limited comparative understanding of how urban–rural linkages are practically addressed through spatial planning. This study explores the extent and variety to which urban–rural linkages are integrated into both statutory
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Not or Yes in My Back Yard? A physiological and psychological measurement of urban residents in Taiwan Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-23 Yi-Kai Juan, Yi Chen
Global urbanization has resulted in a dense concentration of population in cities worldwide. In Asia’s densely populated cities, the existence of “Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)” facilities is essential for public infrastructure development. However, most NIMBY facilities, such as cemeteries, funeral parlors, electrical towers, garbage dumps, and gas stations, are directly exposed to the urban environment
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Homelessness and nature across landscapes and disciplines: A literature review Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-23 Seamus R. Land, Monika M. Derrien
The complex social-ecological dynamics of homelessness in natural resource management have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Systematically understanding and engaging with these dynamics across sectors, disciplines, and landscapes has presented a conceptual and methodological challenge for both practitioners and researchers. Though some interdisciplinary research has expanded in recent
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New York City 2100: Environmental justice implications of future scenarios for addressing extreme heat Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Maya Dutta, Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafa, Matthew I. Palmer, Mika Tosca, Jennifer Ventrella, Elizabeth M. Cook
Climate-driven hazards, such as extreme heat or precipitation, are threatening the current and future livability of New York City (NYC) and disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color. To envision future climate resilience, government stakeholders and researchers co-produced future scenarios for 2100 in response to climate hazards for NYC during participatory workshops
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Integrated assessment of urban green infrastructure multifunctionality: Insights from Stavanger Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-17 Maria Korkou, Ari K.M. Tarigan, Hans Martin Hanslin
Optimised contributions of green infrastructure (GI) to urban ecosystem services are strongly related to its multifunctionality. The challenge, however, is that the concept of multifunctionality still needs to be transformed into an operationalised assessment to evaluate current performance, which is instrumental in supporting spatial planning and policy strategies. Using the case of Stavanger City
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Landscapes of thermal inequality: Exploring patterns of climate justice across multiple spatial scales in Spain Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-17 Szymon Marcińczak, Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual, Dominik Kopeć, Klaudia Wróbel, Veronika Mooses
Over the last four decades, global temperatures have seen a generalized, long-term increase, and Europe is at the forefront of this trend, with temperatures rising by over twice the global average in the past 30 years. And the problem of excessive heat exposure is disproportionately more serious urban areas than it is in rural areas. This study investigates the issue of thermal inequality in Southern
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“I like seeing people, different cultures, and hearing different music”: Exploring adolescent perspectives of inclusive and healthy high-rise and dense urban environment designs Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 Adrian Buttazzoni, Lindsey Smith, Ryan Lo, Alexander James David Wray, Jason Gilliland, Leia Minaker
As countries continue to urbanize, an increasing number of adolescents will live in densely populated urban areas, often residing in high-rise buildings. Despite these trends, many high-rises, and their surrounding areas, sparsely consider the needs of adolescents. This results in urban environments that are often ill-suited to sufficiently support the health and development of adolescents. In the
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Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Mengyang Wang, Xue-yi You, Shu-ming Zhao
Ecological network (EN) is a popular approach for biodiversity conservation, which aims to facilitate animal movement between habitats. However, asymmetric movement caused by the subjectivity of animals and environment heterogeneity is seldom considered in EN design. To design EN based on asymmetric movement, an individual-based model, PDArunner, is developed, which can identify corridors based on
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The role of urban amenities in facilitating social mixing: Evidence from Stockholm Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-13 Cate Heine, Timur Abbiasov, Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti
Though the existence of socioeconomic segregation in social interactions has been consistently documented and compared across cities in a growing body of literature, less attention has been paid to within-city analysis of the types of places at which particularly integrated or segregated interactions occur. Dependencies between socioeconomic profile, residential location, preferences and behavior make
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Narratives of exclusion: A photovoice study towards racial equity and justice in public urban greenspaces Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-13 Nadha Hassen
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public urban greenspaces were sought as places of respite. However, deep inequities surfaced regarding who had access to safe high-quality greenspaces. The Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities study explored the experiences of racialized people in public urban greenspaces in Toronto, Canada.
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Comment on: “Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale” by Esperon-Rodriguez et al. Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-09 Greg R. Guerin, Stephen J. Livesley, Stefan K. Arndt, Christopher Szota
With the bulk of the global population now living in cities, creating a cool, green refuge through extensive urban forests is a priority. However, we are concerned that tree species currently growing in our cities may not tolerate future climates. Esperon-Rodriguez et al. (2024) recently presented an estimate of ‘climate risk’ for a given tree species in a given location using a climate safety margin
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River invertebrate biodiversity benefits from upstream urban woodland Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Yueming Qu, Michael Hutchins, Alice Fitch, Andrew C. Johnson
In urban environments, invertebrate communities are subjected to a broad mixture of impacts, including diffuse pollution. Pollutant mixtures and habitat degradation can combine to apply stress on community diversity. Water quality is influenced by the assemblage and mosaic of catchment land cover. Amongst a wider suite of Nature-Based Solutions, the value of urban woodland is increasingly recognized
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The role of peri-urban parks in enhancing urban green spaces accessibility in high-density contexts: An environmental justice perspective Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Lu Shan, Shenjing He
Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on peri-urban parks (PUPs) in urban green spaces (UGS) development, However, little is known about how PUPs moderate overall UGS accessibility and contribute to environmental justice, particularly for high-density cities. To address this salient gap, the present study examines the overall urban green space accessibility, the moderating effects of PUPs,
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A novel method of urban landscape perception based on biological vision process Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Yuehao Cao, Peifeng Yang, Miao Xu, Minmin Li, You Li, Renzhong Guo
Urban landscape perception is essential for understanding the interaction between individuals and the built environment, impacting urban space quality improvement. This study bridges the gap in comprehending the mechanisms, processes, and content of landscape perception that previous studies have not fully addressed. By integrating urban landscape studies with the biological vision process, a new theoretical
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Neighborhood environmental conditions and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis in Hong Kong adults Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-04 Ted C.T. Fong, Chee Hon Chan, Paul S.F. Yip
Neighborhood environmental conditions (NEC) refer to various environmental factors that are associated with individuals’ well-being (WB). Most existing studies, however, did not account for the complex interdependence among various NEC components in their effects on WB. This study aimed to use a network approach to examine the associations between NEC and WB during the COVID-19 pandemic. A population-wide
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Evaluating objective and perceived ecosystem service in urban context: An indirect method based on housing market Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Yunqi Tang, Weiye Xiao, Feng Yuan
Ecosystem service (ES) evaluation is usually based on the stocks of natural resources and their functions. However, the value of ES in the urban area depends on human activities more than the existence of natural resources. This research implements an indirect market method by integrating hedonic housing price model to assess ES in urban context from both objective (remote sensing) and subjective perspectives
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‘It’s not necessarily a social space’ − Institutions, power and nature’s wellbeing benefits in the context of diverse inner-city neighbourhoods Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-31 Meri Juntti, Sevda Özsezer-Kurnuç, Nicholas Dash
Urban nature is widely known to provide wellbeing benefits to people and communities, but evidence particularly from diverse and disadvantaged contexts suggests that these benefits are not experienced equally by all. This paper unpacks this complexity by focussing on how urban nature is interacted with to produce relational wellbeing on two diverse inner-city housing estates undergoing regeneration
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From land-based to people-based: Spatiotemporal cooling effects of peri-urban parks and their driving factors in China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Wenxuan Tan, Meng Cai, Yeran Sun, Tingting Chen
Peri-urban areas are essential for human habitation and provide significant green spaces to improve the thermal environment, especially when urban land is limited. Understanding the factors influencing the cooling intensity of peri-urban parks is crucial for guiding decision-making in climate-responsive urban planning and management. However, relevant studies generally focus on the short-term cooling
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Vertical canopy structure dominates cooling and thermal comfort of urban pocket parks during hot summer days Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Si-Qi Zhou, Zhao-Wu Yu, Wei-Yuan Ma, Xi-Han Yao, Jun-Qi Xiong, Wen-Juan Ma, Shu-Yao Xiang, Qi Yuan, Ying-Ying Hao, Dong-Fan Xu, Ben-Yao Wang, Bin Zhao
In high-density urban areas, pocket parks offer significant potential to mitigate thermal discomfort. However, the specific contributions of horizontal and vertical canopy structures to pocket parks’ cooling and thermal comfort effects remain unclear. This study addresses this gap by selecting 14 typical pocket parks in Shanghai and collecting high-resolution canopy and thermal data using unmanned
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Air regulation service is affected by green areas cover and fragmentation: An analysis using demand, supply and flow during COVID-19 quarantine Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Nataly Andrea Pimiento-Quiroga, Paula Ribeiro Prist, Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa, Ligia Vizeu Barrozo, Jean Paul Metzger
Urban green areas are a potential supplier of air quality regulation service. However, research to date has mostly focused on the effects of the amount of these areas, with few studies evaluating how configuration aspects, such as spatial fragmentation, affect air quality services. Even less is known about how this service varies with decreasing pollutant emissions. Here we fill these research gaps
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Assessing the efficacy of tributary upstream meander restoration on downstream landscape stability through computational modelling Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Mincong Wang, Joseph Claghorn, Lu Zhuo
Meander restoration has become a commonly advocated solution in flood-prone or ecologically degraded river networks. The long-term impact of such measures on the stability of the landscape at the catchment scale beyond the implementation site itself is critical to project success and for sustainable catchment management and needs to be considered by all stakeholders. It is challenging, however, to
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Enabling wild nature experiences in cities: A spatial analysis of institutional and physical barriers to using wild nature areas in Vienna, Austria Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Brenda Maria Zoderer, Christa Hainz-Renetzeder
Wild nature in cities can allow urban residents to experience and connect with nature close to their homes. Previous research has shown that wild nature areas (WNAs) can be found in various urban greenspaces, such as remnant vegetation in forests, wild corners in parks, or spontaneous vegetation on informal sites. However, little is known about their usability for urban residents and their potential
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Using the Gini Index to quantify urban green inequality: A systematic review and recommended reporting standards Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-20 Alexander James Fricke Martin, Tenley M. Conway
Access to parks, ecosystem services, and urban trees support healthy people and communities. Unfortunately, access is often unequally distributed, leading to differential outcomes. Measuring the within-city distributional equality and comparing between cities can be facilitated by the Gini Index, a measure originally developed for economic disparities. To examine its applications in urban forestry
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Ecosystem restoration along the “pattern-process-service-sustainability” path for achieving land degradation neutrality Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Caichun Yin, Wenwu Zhao, Paulo Pereira
Ecosystem restoration is critical in attaining land degradation neutrality (LDN) by fostering synergistic relationships between land use patterns, ecological processes, ecosystem services, and sustainable development, i.e., the “pattern-process-service-sustainability” cascading pathway. However, a comprehensive investigation examining the ecosystem restoration required to achieve LDN within the “p
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Urban Sprawl and Routing: A Comparative Study on 156 European Cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Roberto Maria Rosati
To address the growing challenges urban sprawl poses, it is essential to understand its influence on urban transportation, a primary source of economic, social, and environmental impact. This study fills this gap by quantifying the consequences of sprawl on transportation efficiency, proposing an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates knowledge from operations research.
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Innovative communication strategies for promoting urban wildlife habitat conservation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Mackenzie Waller, Michael V. Cove, Jaret C. Daniels, Ken P. Yocom
The emerging recognition of the importance of urban habitat and wildlife for increasing biodiversity, driven partly by responses to climate change and urbanization, presents critical opportunities for urban biodiversity conservation and species recovery. However, effectively communicating these benefits to the public and policymakers remains a challenge for scientists and landscape architects with
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Research Note: Multi-Algorithm-Based urban tree information extraction and Its applications in urban planning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-05 Chaowen Yao, Henna Fabritius, Pia Fricker, Fabian Dembski
Urban trees provide several vital social and environmental services. Within the field of urban planning, tree information is currently usually obtained through expensive and time-consuming fieldwork. This research presents a multi-algorithm methodology that extracts urban tree information, including tree location, absolute height, crown perimeter, and species (group) from airborne laser scanning (ALS)