Kenya has experienced rapid population growth and urbanization in recent years leading to major changes its natural environment. Urban infrastructure a significant influence on carbon emissions environmental degradation. green spaces are some of the interventions that demonstrate how impact increased can be managed. An exploration current state urban is essential identify equitable sustainable ...

Maintaining ecosystem services is a key adaption option towards sustainable cities and adaptive societies in securing citizens’ health wellbeing. This research investigates the contribution of using urban green space components as basic units infrastructure strategy planning for conditions services. A total 9 types spaces are selected delineated from high-resolution data. combination quantifica...

urban design and landscape architecture are considered as modern art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various art and science fields of studies. formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape design is occurred at the beginning of 20th century. the success of these two fields is because of their attention to environmental qualities upgrade in public and open spaces ...

This study investigates the effects of compact urban development on air pollution, taking into account both the spatial distribution of pollutants resulting from an increase in inner urban densities and the dispersion of pollutants associated with an increase in outer green open spaces. The empirical analysis is based upon a panel data model covering 17 cities in Korea from 1996–2009; this appr...