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Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
geographical information systems
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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2019 US Cities Sustainable Development Report

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
sustainable land management
urban areas
US cities are at the forefront of the sustainable development challenge. They contain 80% of the country’s population, and therefore have the capacity to make or break SDG achievement (US Census Bureau 2016). But, while crucial to SDG attainment, they Executive Summary cannot accomplish this alone. While 80 percent of US residents live in urban areas, only 3 percent of land is urban; rural and urban areas are deeply interconnected (US Census Bureau 2016).
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Drive Mechanisms of Soil Quality Changes in Peri-Urban Areas

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
China, Russia, United States of America
Urban Tenure
periurban areas
urban areas
The driving mechanism of soil quality (SQ) has important implications for arable land protection, sustainable agricultural development and ecological environment conservation. This study builds a “perception–response” theoretical framework to investigate how farmers’ land use behavior may affect SQ from the temporal and spatial perspectives.
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Research on an Analytical Framework for Urban Spatial Structural and Functional Optimisation: A Case Study of Beijing City, China

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Australia, China, Russia, United States of America
Urban Tenure
research
urban areas
urbanization
A number of severe ecological problems, and the altered structure of urban spaces, are ascribed to rapid urbanisation. Hence, an analytical framework for urban spatial structure and functional optimisation is highly beneficial to balance the contradiction between developing urban areas and protecting their ecosystems. In this paper, the proposed analytical framework included three parts. We first delineated the ecological suitability zones (ESZs) of Beijing City by applying the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model.
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Evaluation of Soundscapes in Urban Parks in Olsztyn (Poland) for Improvement of Landscape Design and Management

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Poland, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Soundscape analyses and noise measurements should be a part of pre-design works involved in planning green areas in city centers. The aim of the study was to conduct a multi-criteria analysis of the soundscape of three parks in Olsztyn (Poland) as a part of the landscape planning process to determine the directions of re-design of places most exposed to noise. The research included: 1. functional and spatial analysis of the park surroundings in reference to the city environment, 2. analysis of the acoustic map, 3.
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National Level Land-Use Changes in Functional Urban Areas in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
urban areas
Land-use and cover change (LUCC) impacts global environmental changes. Therefore, it is crucial to obtain cross-national level LUCC data that represents past and actual LUCC. As urban areas exhibit the most significant dynamics of the changes, accompanied by such processes as urban sprawl, it seems desirable to take into account LUCC information from such areas to acquire national level information. The paper analyses land-use changes (LUCs) in urban areas in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia.
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Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences

Land Use Policy Volume 97

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
Spain, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
infrastructure
land use
land-use planning
research
sustainable land management
urban areas
urban planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content from Location Based Social Network —LBSN— Foursquare is used as a complementary data source.
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Does Urban planning affect urban growth pattern? A case study of Shenzhen, China

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
United States of America, China, Russia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban planning
urbanization
urban areas
land use
research
It is essential to understand how urban plans affect urban growth patterns in order to improve current urban planning and management systems. Few studies have been conducted to analyse urban growth patterns of Shenzhen, an international megacity located in southern China, but none of them revealed the relationships between urban planning and urban growth patterns. This study explores the effects of urban master plans on urban growth patterns in different plan periods in Shenzhen. We first quantified the urban growth patterns comparing pixel- and patch-based methods.
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Playing by the rules? Analysing incremental urban developments

Land Use Policy Volume 72

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2018
Netherlands, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development
land use
land-use planning
research
urban areas
urban planning
Current urban developments are often considered outdated and static, and the argument follows that they should become more adaptive. In this paper, we argue that existing urban development are already adaptive and incremental. Given this flexibility in urban development, understanding changes in the so-called ‘rules of the game’ which structure and change collective action, is increasingly relevant. Gaining such insights advances the ability of planners to deal with perceived spatial problems. The aim of this paper is twofold.
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Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
infrastructure
land-use planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas.