نتایج جستجو برای: green city

تعداد نتایج: 290924  

2012
Kayoko Yamamoto

The purpose of this study is to review representative cases of green space development in order to compare the Garden City concept and Green Belt concept as applied and to examine its direction in major Asian and Oceanic cities. The results of previous studies and this study show that there are two major directions in such green-oriented city planning. One direction is toward Multi-Regional Dev...

2012
Kayoko Yamamoto

The purpose of this study is to review representative cases of green space development in order to compare the Garden City concept and Green Belt concept as applied and to examine its direction in major Asian and Oceanic cities. The results of previous studies and this study show that there are two major directions in such green-oriented city planning. One direction is toward Multi-Regional Dev...

Journal: :Biology letters 2009
Richard A Fuller Kevin J Gaston

Most people on the planet live in dense aggregations, and policy directives emphasize green areas within cities to ameliorate some of the problems of urban living. Benefits of urban green spaces range from physical and psychological health to social cohesion, ecosystem service provision and biodiversity conservation. Green space coverage differs enormously among cities, yet little is known abou...

2013
Krista L. McGuire Sara G. Payne Matthew I. Palmer Caitlyn M. Gillikin Dominique Keefe Su Jin Kim Seren M. Gedallovich Julia Discenza Ramya Rangamannar Jennifer A. Koshner Audrey L. Massmann Giulia Orazi Adam Essene Jonathan W. Leff Noah Fierer

In urban environments, green roofs provide a number of benefits, including decreased urban heat island effects and reduced energy costs for buildings. However, little research has been done on the non-plant biota associated with green roofs, which likely affect their functionality. For the current study, we evaluated whether or not green roofs planted with two native plant communities in New Yo...

2013
Jun Li

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This paper studies aid’s implementation strategies and effectiveness by investigating ‘what works in forei...

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 2007

Journal: :international journal of architecture and urban development 2013
hamed akhgar hossein zabihi reza shaker ardakani

one of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. as the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of iranian urban design, iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...

2016
Henner Busch Stefan Anderberg

In this article, we investigate the nexus of green city branding and municipal climate networks. In recent decades, a number of formal transnational municipal climate networks have emerged and their membership continues to increase. In parallel, city branding that is based on green policies, has gained importance. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, we assess how and to what extent Germ...

Journal: :Journal of epidemiology and community health 2012
Elizabeth A Richardson Richard Mitchell Terry Hartig Sjerp de Vries Thomas Astell-Burt Howard Frumkin

BACKGROUND Cities are expanding and accommodating an increasing proportion of the world's population. It is important to identify features of urban form that promote the health of city dwellers. Access to green space has been associated with health benefits at both individual and neighbourhood level. We investigated whether a relationship between green space coverage and selected mortality rate...

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