Urban Revitalization and Environmental Quality

RUNNING HEAD: ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Inhabitants’ and Experts’ Assessments of Environmental Quality for Urban Sustainability

The Welfare Implications of Urban Decay and Revitalization

Conventional wisdom suggests that urban revitalization can harm the poor, primarily by raising rents. It has also been argued that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. This seeming contradiction can be explained in a model incorporating moving costs and neighborhood quality change sufficiently large t...

Urban environmental quality and human wellbeing—a social geographical perspective

Concern over the quality of modern life is a characteristic of contemporary society. This paper explains the social geographical approach to research into quality of life and urban environmental quality. A five-dimensional model for quality of life research is presented, and a number of key conceptual and methodological issues examined. Two exemplar case studies are employed to illustrate the a...

Urban, agricultural, and environmental protection practices for sustainable water quality

Sustainable water management often emphasizes water resource quantity, with focus on availability and use practices. However, only a subset of the available water may be usable when also considering water quality. Water quality management is examined within three broad sectors—urban, agriculture, and environmental systems—to investigate how water quality sustainability (WQS) is defined by each ...

Mapping and Modeling of Urban Environmental Quality in Hong Kong

This paper demonstrates the application and usage of current remote sensing techniques for estimating and depicting Urban Environmental Quality at detailed level from satellite images. Temperature data derived from Landsat ETM+, Vegetation Index derived from high resolution IKONOS multispectral images, digitized data of the city urban infrastructure and 3-D virtual reality models were integrate...