By allowing for urban living in pleasant and healthy surroundings, breaking up the paved and impermeable built environment, and providing space for recreation (Fig. 2.1), urban greening facilitates a wide variety of well-being benefits (Panagopoulos et al. 2016). Access to urban GI, whether by...
-Examples from two fast growing Asian cities.Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 16, 150-159, 2016.Schetke S., Qureshi S., Lautenbach S., Kabisch N. 2016. What determines the use of urban green spaces in highly urbanized areas? - Examples from two fast growing Asian cities. Urban Forestry...
Vegetation density of urban parks and perceived appropriateness for recreation Tore BjerkeTorbjørn ØstdahlChrister ThraneEinar Strumse Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Jun 2006 Abstract There is a growing body of evidence indicating that exposure to, and activities in, nature have beneficial effects...
Led the design and implementation of a sustainable urban park in a major metropolitan area, increasing community greenspace by 35%. Successfully coordinated with civil engineers and biologists to integrate a habitat restoration project into a commercial development, boosting local biodiversity. Implemented...
(ideally) be covered by journalists. We build here on arguments that underlie the work of Wenner and Billings (2017) and others concerning the mediatization of sport mega-events. This work is especially useful for demonstrating how sport mega-events—events that bridge sport with urban and ...
The pressure on remaining open spaces of urban green infrastructure (UGI) is high due to increasing urbanization and the multiple requirements of a diverse
-Examples from two fast growing Asian cities.Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 16, 150-159, 2016.Schetke S., Qureshi S., Lautenbach S., Kabisch N. 2016. What determines the use of urban green spaces in highly urbanized areas? - Examples from two fast growing Asian cities. Urban Forestry...
Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the contribution to home economics are rare, especially ...
doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2018.10.009Glavan, MatjažSchmutz, UlrichWilliams, SarahCorsi, StefanoMonaco, FedericaKneafsey, MoyaGuzman Rodriguez, Paola AndreaČenič-Istenič, MajdaPintar, MarinaElsevier ScienceUrban Forestry & Urban Greening
In this essay, we adopted these broad GI definitions and used GIs as an umbrella term, while acknowledging other more specific yet equally effective definitions [e.g., the definition of urban green infrastructure (UGI) by Hansen et al. (2017, p.3)]. Why is it necessary to create such...