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How do residential open spaces influence the older adults’ emotions: A field experiment using wearable sensors Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Weijing Luo, Chongxian Chen, Haiwei Li, Yongqi Hou
Accumulative evidence and knowledge have revealed a close relationship between environments and human emotions. Residential open space (ROS) plays a significant role in shaping the older adults’ health and well-being. However, there is a lack of evidence for the association between various types of ROSs and the older adults’ emotions. The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the effects
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Comparison of the impact of school environment on body mass index, physical fitness, and mental health among Chinese adolescents: Correlations, risk factors, intermediary effects Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Yuchao Lun, Hui Wang, Yifan Liu, Qi Wang, Tianbao Liu, Zenglin Han
Schools offer prospects to enhance adolescent health by encouraging physical activity. This study contributes to the understanding of adolescent health research, drawing on data from physical fitness and mental health surveys conducted in 2015. The participants included 8,967 seventh-grade students across 45 junior high schools in Dalian, China. By employing multilevel analytical models, this research
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Exploring the spatial trade-off effects of green space on older people’s physical inactivity: Evidence from Shanghai Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Siyu Miao, Yang Xiao
Given that green space patterns and population density often show opposing trends over space, this could lead to trade-off (distance/population decay) relationships. Consequently, this paper utilized the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) data from Shanghai, China, to investigate whether there is a spatial trade-off in the health effects of green spaces on people’s inactivity. Our findings
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How can networks address barriers to nature-based solutions? The case of agriculture and construction in the Netherlands Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Maryse M.H. Chappin, Maarten J. Punt, Helen S. Toxopeus, Nina van Tilburg, Cathy L. de Jongh, Hens A.C. Runhaar, Godelieve H.J. Spaas
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After-sealing life in urban soils: Experimental evidence of resilience and efficiency of ectomycorrhizal inoculation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Authier Louise, Mallet Lucas, Taudière Adrien, Violle Cyrille, Richard Franck
The restoration of urban sealed soils is a major stake for urban planners. In particular, characterizing their resilience from a biotic perspective is of primary importance for remobilizing these artificialized substrates in urban green spaces. Using Marseille (France) as a case study, we implemented a metabarcoding next generation sequencing approach to characterize the diversity and the composition
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Community garden management for resilient cities: A case study in suburban Tokyo during the COVID-19 pandemic Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Naomi Shimpo
Numerous studies underscore the role of community gardens in sustaining food security, physical and mental health, and social networks during the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to community resilience in different contexts of each country. Despite the rich history of urban gardening, Japan remains a geographical gap. This study conducted a mixed-method case study in suburban Tokyo and addresses the
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Green Enough? A dose-response curve of the impact of street greenery levels and types on perceived happiness Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez, Niloufar Kiarostami, Dicheng Yang, Alp Ozcakir
Although research shows that individuals report higher levels of happiness when viewing green environments, the dose curve describing the impact of greenery on happiness remains undefined. Current literature only presents dose curves representing the associations between stress recovery and tree coverage, and does not explore how this fluctuates for different types of green infrastructure. Using an
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Anthropogenic pressure in Czech protected areas over the last 60 years: A concerning increase Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Tomáš Janík, Vladimír Zýka, Katarína Demková, Marek Havlíček, Roman Borovec, Anna Lichová, Barbora Mrkvová, Dušan Romportl
This article focuses on the evolution of anthropogenic pressure across Czech large-scale protected areas (protected landscape areas and national parks, n = 30) over the last 60 years. In four periods (1960s; 1990; 2004; between 2016 and 2020) we analysed the development of artificial structures (built-up areas, recreational areas, roads, dirt roads, and streets) and their impact on landscape fragmentation
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HashGAT-VCA: A vector cellular automata model with hash function and graph attention network for urban land-use change simulation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Qingfeng Guan, Jianfeng Li, Yaqian Zhai, Xun Liang, Yao Yao
Vector cellular automata (VCA) models, which excel at representing spatiotemporal dynamics of irregularly shaped land parcels, have been widely employed in land use change simulations. However, current research faces the following issues: (1) most VCA models neglect the spatial heterogeneity of driving factors within each land parcel when evaluating the environmental driving effects; (2) when calculating
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Higher tree species richness and diversity in urban areas than in forests: Implications for host availability for invasive tree pests and pathogens Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Benno A. Augustinus, Meinrad Abegg, Valentin Queloz, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff
Urban and forest trees provide valuable ecosystem services. However, they are increasingly threatened by invasive forest pests and pathogens. Trees in urban areas are often the first potential hosts non-native tree-feeding insects and tree pathogens (“pests”) encounter after introduction in a novel region. If the trees encountered are suitable hosts, these pests can establish and become invasive –
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Linked spatial and temporal success of urban growth boundaries to preserve ecosystem services Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Elena Oertel, Caroline E. Vickery, John E. Quinn
Urban expansion and sprawl lead to loss of green space. This has the potential to degrade natural capital and associated ecosystem services. Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) are a planning tool to delineate where growth may or may not occur as a strategy to protect green and open space.However, how these policies impact ecosystem services is unknown, particularly across multiple years. Here we compare
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A dose of nature to reduce sexual crimes in public outdoor spaces: Proposing the Landscape-Sexual Crime Model Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Huan Lu, Lin Liu, Hua Zhong, Bin Jiang
Sexual crime is a critical global social problem. There remains a critical knowledge gap concerning whether and to what extent sexual crimes in public outdoor spaces can be influenced by landscape morphology of green spaces. This missing knowledge hinders the effective use of green spaces to reduce sexual crimes in these public settings. To address this issue, we collected a dataset comprising 5,155
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A three-dimensional future land use simulation (FLUS-3D) model for simulating the 3D urban dynamics under the shared socio-economic pathways Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Xiaocong Xu, Dan Ding, Xiaoping Liu
Existing research on urban dynamic simulations has primarily focused on horizontal aspects, whereas vertical changes have remained relatively unexplored. Although a few preliminary studies have attempted to simulate three-dimensional (3D) urban dynamics, these have generally amounted to rudimentary amalgamations of horizontal urban expansion simulation and vertical height estimation. In this study
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Monitoring and perception of allergenic pollen in urban park environments Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Nadja Kabisch, Thomas Hornick, Jan Bumberger, Roland Krämer, Rupert Legg, Oskar Masztalerz, Maximilian Bastl, Jan.C. Simon, Regina Treudler, Susanne Dunker
Urban green spaces are highly important for the health and well-being of urban residents, especially under conditions of ongoing climate change and urbanisation. However, vegetation in urban parks may also present a risk to human health through the presence of allergenic plants and release of allergy-inducing pollen. Using the city of Leipzig as a case study, we monitored pollen abundance in two inner
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Measuring urban nature for pedestrian health: Systematic review and expert survey Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Chanam Lee, Amaryllis H. Park, Hanwool Lee, Gregory N. Bratman, Steve Hankey, Dongying Li
Walking and access to nature are two of the most effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies. There has been a growing interest in the dynamic pathways among access to nature, walking, and health. Effective measurement of these variables is the prerequisite to advancing our understanding of such pathways. However, contrasting to the rigorous methods available for walking and health
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Limitations of existing park quality instruments and suggestions for future research Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 KangJae “Jerry” Lee, Myla F.J. Aronson, Jeffrey A.G. Clark, Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Hogyeum Evan Joo, Peleg Kremer, Daniele La Rosa, Kelli L. Larson, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Susannah B. Lerman, Dexter H. Locke, Charles H. Nilon, Hamil Pearsall, Timothy L.V. Vargo
Public parks are critical urban infrastructures offering health, environmental, social, and cultural benefits to people. However, the idea of park quality has lacked a clear operational definition and normative standard for measurement. We provide critical insights into existing park quality instruments and advocate for an alternative approach. First, due to the significant diversity in parks, inherent
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Historical park planning is associated with modern-day patterns of bird diversity in cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Daniel J. Herrera, Mason Fidino, David Luther, Jennifer M. Mullinax, Travis Gallo
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How can urban green space be planned for a ‘happy city’? Evidence from overhead- to eye-level green exposure metrics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Yingyi Cheng, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Bing Zhao, Bing Qiu, Hengyuan Wang, Jinguang Zhang
The benefits of urban green spaces (UGSs) for human health have been extensively documented. Nevertheless, few studies have incorporated multidimensional UGS exposure indicators, and little is known about the effectiveness of different metrics that should be prioritized as nature-based solutions for improving mental well-being. This study aimed to investigate the associations between various UGS exposure
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Multi-scaled green infrastructure optimization: Spatial projections and assessment for dynamic planning and design Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Yoonshin Kwak, Brian Deal
As urbanization pressures continue to intensify globally, the implementation of green infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a critical intervention for enhancing the resilience of our communities. However, literature exploring the integration of GI planning and design within the complex mechanisms of urban systems is limited. This study posits that the sensible deployment of GI should consider place-based
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Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Eva Beele, Raf Aerts, Maarten Reyniers, Ben Somers
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How the COVID-19 pandemic changed forest visits in Switzerland: Is there a back to normal? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Anne C. Wunderlich, Boris Salak, K. Tessa Hegetschweiler, Nicole Bauer, Marcel Hunziker
Lockdown measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a rise in people’s visits to forests and urban green spaces. However, as vaccination efforts progressed and infection rates declined, it remained uncertain whether forest visitation levels would return to pre-pandemic norms or even decreased. To explore the post-crisis status of forest visits, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using
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Comparison of urban green space usage and preferences: A case study approach of China and the UK Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Yueshan Ma, Paul G. Brindley, Eckart Lange
The literature identifies an important research gap regarding the variability in people’s needs and preferences for Urban Green Space (UGS) depending on sociodemographic and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, it is essential to understand the impact of these differences on UGS utilization preferences. However, there remains a lack of a comprehensive comparative research on this topic. This study compared
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More green, less depressed: Residential greenspace is associated with lower antidepressant redemptions in a nationwide population-based study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Cecilia U.D. Stenfors, Lina Rådmark, Johanna Stengård, Yannick Klein, Walter Osika, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson
The objective of the current study was to investigate, for the first time, the association between individual-level residential greenspace and redemption of antidepressant drugs in a longitudinal nationwide population-based sample in Sweden. A nationwide population-based sample of adults residing in Sweden was studied during 2013–2016 (N = 108716; N = 324378). Residential greenspace land cover was
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A novel full-resolution convolutional neural network for urban-fringe-rural identification: A case study of urban agglomeration region Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Chenrui Wang, Xiao Sun, Zhifeng Liu, Lang Xia, Hongxiao Liu, Guangji Fang, Qinghua Liu, Peng Yang
Monitoring urbanization processes is important because they are often accompanied by intensive landscape pattern transitions and pluralistic socioeconomic changes. To effectively monitor urban expansion and support regional planning, it is essential to develop a fast, accurate and universal urban–rural classification model, especially identifying the dynamic spatial patterns of urban, urban–rural fringe
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Multiuse Trails, Gentrification, and heterogeneity of neighborhood change Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yunlei Qi, Greg Lindsey
Scholars have found that many new multiuse trails are associated with neighborhood change like gentrification. However, gentrification of adjacent, gentrifiable neighborhoods is not universal, and studies of localized effects of trails are needed. This study documents gentrification and upgrading in both gentrifiable and non-gentrifiable neighborhoods along three multiuse trails funded and opened in
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Unhoused users in parks and public greenspace: An intergroup conflict approach Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Nick Pitas, Jeff Rose, Lauren Mullenbach, Zack Russell
Like other user groups, people experiencing homelessness utilize parks and other public spaces for a variety of reasons, including recreation/leisure, physical activity, socializing, and to enjoy time in nature. However, unlike other user groups, unhoused park users also often rely on parks as a setting to engage in a variety of necessary metabolic and biophysical functions. Despite the centrality
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Land subdivision in the law's shadow: Unraveling the drivers and spatial patterns of land subdivision with geospatial analysis and machine learning techniques in complex landscapes Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jorge Herrera-Benavides, Marco Pfeiffer, Mauricio Galleguillos
Land subdivisions, especially in rural areas, pose a significant threat to sustainable development in many regions of the world. This issue is particularly challenging to understand in complex landscapes, where many biophysical and anthropic drivers interact without the necessary land regulatory guidance. We combined kernel density analysis and machine learning modeling to unravel the spatial patterns
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Exploring the implementation of rewilding in a British local authority: Overcoming challenges and maximising opportunities for landscape-scale management Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Kevin Harrington, Alessio Russo
Rewilding is increasingly viewed as a process-driven approach to land management that offers an alternative to traditional nature conservation, supports nature recovery, and responds to climate change. However, implementing rewilding in British local authorities can be challenging. This qualitative study explores the challenges and opportunities of implementing rewilding in a British local authority
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Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chuandong Tan, Bo Xu, Ge Hong, Xuefei Wu
Forests, which harbor most of Earth's terrestrial biodiversity, have been and continue to be impacted by significant threats from human activities. Improving biodiversity conservation outcomes requires proactive and effective management actions to address the increasing risks, rather than merely maintaining forest cover. However, few studies have explored how to spatially inform diversified management
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The socio-spatial response to environmentally mitigated channelization in Southeast Asia. A longitudinal landscape pattern analysis Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Xuewen Lu, Gianni Talamini
Rural-to-urban transformation in Southeast Asia must be discussed as a vicious cycle of hydrologic alteration, environmental degradation, and destructive land use changes that collectively jeopardize millions of lives. Particularly, top-down flood control schemes have been linked to significant degradation of the socioeconomic and biophysical features of rural landscapes and increasingly faster agricultural
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Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Stephanie Cadaval, Mysha Clarke, Lara A. Roman, Tenley M. Conway, Andrew K. Koeser, Theodore S. Eisenman
The benefits and functions of urban trees are well-studied, and stewardship groups, non-governmental organizations, tree professionals, and municipal leaders aim to increase canopy cover and expand planting programs. However, urban trees also present variable risks to human safety and infrastructure based on tree species, size, age, health, and maintenance history. Furthermore, changing global climate
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Floral abundance and corolla length predict the importance of species in connecting urban green areas Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Camila Silveira Souza, Vivian Akemi Nakamura, Licléia da Cruz Rodrigues, Anna Traveset
Despite the growing urbanization rate and its consequences on biodiversity and species interactions worldwide, the connection among urban green areas, performed by interacting species, is still poorly understood. We evaluated how plant and hummingbird species vary across the urban landscape of a tropical city in Brazil, identifying traits of species taking part in shared interactions between areas
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Trends in the future evolution of rural settlements in oasis-desert areas under water use simulation scenarios: Take the Hexi Corridor region of China as an example Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Wenbo Zhang, Libang Ma, Hongbo Li, Xiang Wang
The uncontrolled expansion of rural settlements caused by the imbalance in the matching of land and water resources has hindered the realization of the goal of sustainable rural development in the oasis-desert area. In this study, “water resources-land resources-oasis rural settlements” are integrated into the same framework of symbiosis development, and the evolution of rural settlements in the context
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Impacts of irrigation scheduling on urban green space cooling Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Pui Kwan Cheung, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley
The increasing heat stress in cities due to climate change and urbanisation can prevent people from using urban green spaces. Irrigating vegetation is a promising strategy to cool urban green spaces in summer. Irrigation scheduling, such as daytime vs night-time irrigation and the frequency of irrigation in a day, may influence the cooling benefit of irrigation. This study aimed to investigate whether
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Association of urban green space with metabolic syndrome and the role of air pollution Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Yi Sun, Yunli Chen, Yuanyuan Huang, Yan Luo, LiPing Yan, Sailimai Man, Canqing Yu, Jun Lv, Chuangshi Wang, Jun Wu, Heling Bao, Bo Wang, Liming Li, Hui Liu
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Park lighting after dark – is it a route or a place? How people feel in park nightscapes (experiment) Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Aleksandra Lis, Magdalena Zienowicz, Zygmunt Kącki, Paweł Iwankowski, Dorota Kukowska, Vlada Shestak
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Urban spatial growth and driving mechanisms under different urban morphologies: An empirical analysis of 287 Chinese cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Xiong He, Yuquan Zhou
Different urban morphologies significantly influence urban spatial growth, yet existing studies seldom directly address this issue. To fill this gap, we develop a novel methodology to analyze the processes and intrinsic mechanisms of urban spatial growth under varying urban morphologies. This study initially identifies urban morphologies through multisource data fusion, then examines urban spatial
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Exploring environmental equity and visitation disparities in peri-urban parks: A mobile phone data-driven analysis in Tokyo Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 ChengHe Guan, Yichun Zhou
Peri-urban parks play a crucial role in enhancing urban living conditions and promoting contact with nature. However, assessing environmental equity and visitor disparities in -urban parks requires a thorough understanding of visitation patterns, which has been lacking in previous research. To bridge the gap, this study utilizes mobile phone big data from over 40,000 visitors to -urban parks in Tokyo
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Financing climate adaptation in Flemish cities: Unpacking financial strategies and policy dynamics for nature-based solutions Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Tara Op de Beeck, Chris den Heijer, Tom Coppens
As climate change continues to impact cities, nature-based solutions (NBS) are being advanced as important adaptation strategies for mitigating these negative effects. As is the case throughout Europe, Flemish cities have enacted adaptation policies and plans outlining the importance of NBS. Nevertheless, the implementation of NBS has been slow. Local governments identify financing as an important
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Urbanization alters the geographic patterns of passerine plumage color in China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jiehua Yu, Haoting Duan, Baoming Zhang, Ludan Zhang, Jiekun He
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‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Liwen Zhang, Nicola Dempsey, Ross Cameron
Natural landscapes are linked to health and well-being outcomes. This research investigated emotional responses to colour in the landscape. An online questionnaire (with 715 respondents) was employed to capture participants' preferences and positive psychological reactions to key flower colours and combinations. Images were created using combinations of pansy flowers in various colours. Flower combinations
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Seeing through their eyes: Revealing recreationists’ landscape preferences through viewshed analysis and machine learning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Carl Lehto, Marcus Hedblom, Anna Filyushkina, Thomas Ranius
Planning for outdoor recreation requires knowledge about the needs and preferences of recreationists. While previous research has mainly relied on stated preferences, recent advances in spatial data collection and analysis have enabled the assessments of actual usage patterns. In this study, we explored how landscape characteristics interact with the attributes of recreationists to determine their
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Do environmental attitudes and personal characteristics influence how people perceive their exposure to green spaces? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Emma S. Rieves, Colleen E. Reid, Kate Carlson, Xiaojiang Li
This study explores the relationship between perceived and objective greenspace exposure, and how sociodemographic traits and environmental attitudes influence peoples’ perceptions of greenspace. We leveraged a cross-sectional survey on greenspace exposure among residents of Denver, CO that ran from November 2019 through April 2021. We measured objective greenspace using the average NDVI (normalized
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Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Alessandro Rigolon, Timothy Collins, Junsik Kim, Michelle Stuhlmacher, Jon Christensen
The health benefits of green space have led to calls for equitable access to parks. When new green spaces are built in low-income communities, however, gentrification often ensues. The “green gentrification” literature has paid little attention to gentrification that might occur before greening. In this paper, we explore whether and under which circumstances gentrification might precede and follow
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Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Rachael V. Gallagher, Niels Souverijns, Quentin Lejeune, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Mark G. Tjoelker
Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature
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More than a canopy cover metric: Influence of canopy quality, water-use strategies and site climate on urban forest cooling potential Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Mohammad A. Rahman, Stefan Arndt, Felipe Bravo, Pui K. Cheung, Natalie van Doorn, Eleonora Franceschi, Miren del Río, Stephen J. Livesley, Astrid Moser-Reischl, Nayanesh Pattnaik, Thomas Rötzer, Heiko Paeth, Stephan Pauleit, Yakir Preisler, Hans Pretzsch, Puay Yok Tan, Shabtai Cohen, Chris Szota, Patricia R. Torquato
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When mitigation is not “just mitigation”: Defining (and diffusing) tensions between climate mitigation, adaptation, and justice Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jessica Debats Garrison, Stephanie Martinez
Using the case of wetlands in California, USA, this paper defines (and assesses strategies for advancing) an understudied corollary of maladaptation and “just adaptation”: “just mitigation.” Wetlands sequester carbon, making their conservation and restoration important for climate mitigation. They also offer co-benefits for climate adaptation, such as greenspace that mitigates the urban heat island
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Enhancing ecological network establishment with explicit species information and spatially coordinated optimization for supporting urban landscape planning and management Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Zhou Shen, Haiwei Yin, Fanhua Kong, Wei Wu, Hui Sun, Jie Su, Shiqi Tian
While insightful, ecological networks (ENs) incorporated in landscape planning and management may not provide a sufficient reference for maintaining biodiversity without explicit species information and coordinated actions, particularly in urban agglomeration areas. To address this gap, we conducted a study in Southern Jiangsu to refine the habitat ranges of 25 target species within the current ecological
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Bent by the market or driven by the policy? Cracking the code of plastic-mulched farmland expansion in peri-urban Hangzhou, China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Yingnan Zhang, Lan Wu, Li Ma, Sensen Wang, Mingyang Shen
An interactive confluence of top-down state interventions and bottom-up market forces has driven a surge of plastic-mulched farmland (), especially in dynamic peri-urban agricultural landscapes, with significant implications for global food security. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of literature regarding the comprehensive policy-market mechanisms on the diffusion of plastic greenhouses. We combine
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Connecting through nature: A systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based social prescribing practices to combat loneliness Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Annika Kolster, Jordan Wrigley, Veronika Papon, Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Michelle Howarth, Ursula Rochau, Laura Hidalgo, Cristina Casajuana, Uwe Siebert, Janina Gerhard, Carolyn Daher, Jill Litt
Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an urgent public health issue due to its impact on mental and physical health, and well-being. Yet, we lack comprehensive, proven strategies for confronting this global problem. There is evidence that contact with nature and greenspace reduces loneliness by facilitating belonging, social connections, and social cohesion. This review aimed to explore whether
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Landscape fragmentation constrains bumblebee nutritional ecology and foraging dynamics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 E. Pioltelli, L. Guzzetti, M. Ouled Larbi, M. Labra, A. Galimberti, P. Biella
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Building equity into public park and recreation service investment: A review of public agency approaches Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Helen Beck, Rachel Berney, Brian Kirk, Ken P. Yocom
In recent decades, academic and professional research has increased understanding of the importance of city and landscape planners engaging with social and environmental justice issues, including contemporary inequities inherent in the planning, distribution, use, and access of public green and open spaces. However, there is a gap between this research centering equity and the planning, development
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High-resolution satellite images reveal the prevalent positive indirect impact of urbanization on urban tree canopy coverage in South America Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jianhua Guo, Danfeng Hong, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Trees in urban areas act as carbon sinks and provide ecosystem services for residents. However, the impact of urbanization on tree coverage in South America remains poorly understood. Here, we make use of very high resolution satellite imagery to derive urban tree coverage for 882 cities in South America and developed a tree coverage impacted (TCI) coefficient to quantify the direct and indirect impacts
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Research note: View from the top: Apartment residents’ views of nature and mental wellbeing during lockdown Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sarah Foster, Alexandra Kleeman, Clover Maitland
Australia’s capital cities have experienced a rapid increase in apartment development over the past decade. The mental wellbeing of apartment residents could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 restrictions due to the unique constraints of apartment buildings and limited access to nature. We examined the relationship between residents’ self-reported view components and wellbeing after Australia’s national
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Measuring spatial inequality of urban park accessibility and utilisation: A case study of public housing developments in Auckland, New Zealand Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jessie Colbert, I-Ting Chuang, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka
Poor spatial accessibility of urban green spaces affects disadvantaged populations, who are at greater risk of socioeconomic related health inequalities. We analyse mobile phone locational data from the Auckland Region of New Zealand to connect a user's 'home' location to nearby urban parks, specifically focusing on public housing tenants - a highly vulnerable group at greater risk of health inequalities
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Experiences with wildfire are associated with private landowners’ management decisions, relationships, and perceptions of risk Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Clare Aslan, Ryan Tarver, Mark Brunson, Sam Veloz, Ben Sikes, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell
As human populations grow and anthropogenic change increases, costly wildland fires increasingly affect rural, public–private interface landscapes. Climate change, a history of fire suppression, and biological invasions are increasing fire risk in systems worldwide. Fires that ignite in one jurisdiction can spread across ownership boundaries, with the result that landscape-scale fire management and
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Evaluating the subjective perceptions of streetscapes using street-view images Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Yoshiki Ogawa, Takuya Oki, Chenbo Zhao, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Chihiro Shimizu
Developing a model to evaluate urban streetscapes based on subjective perceptions is important for quantitative understanding. However, previous studies have only considered limited types of subjective perceptions, neglecting the relationships between them. Further, accurately measuring subjective perception with low computational costs for large-scale urban regions at high spatial resolutions has
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Reaching beyond GIS for comprehensive 3D visibility analysis Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Rafał Wróżyński, Krzysztof Pyszny, Magdalena Wróżyńska
Visibility analyses are one of the fundamental geospatial processing tasks applied in various fields. Recent technological advancements have accelerated viewshed calculations and improved their accuracy thanks to the growing availability of high-resolution spatial data. However, limitations of standard GIS tools, primarily related to the inability to perform analyses in a fully three-dimensional environment
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Determinants of honeybee hive survival and its implications for urban biodiversity in Toronto and Montreal: A Canadian case study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mischa Young, Georges A. Tanguay, Gavin MacGregor, Juste Rajaonson
Cities are shown to provide favourable conditions for western honeybees () by protecting them from agricultural pesticides and offering a greater diversity of flora. Nevertheless, while current research primarily focuses on the causes of pollinator – and particularly honeybee – decline, including pesticide exposure, climate change, and habitat fragmentation, little attention is dedicated to urban apiculture
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Spatial equity of urban parks from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality: A case study in Singapore Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 7.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ru Guo, Jessica Ann Diehl, Ran Zhang, Hongcheng Wang
Spatial equity in urban park recreational services can significantly contribute to sustainable urban planning. However, there are shortcomings in research comparing the spatial equity of different categories of parks and urban parks overall from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality available to residents across various neighborhoods. In this paper, emphasizing