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A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate

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Vegetation alters urban climates via transpirational cooling; however, unlike shorter vegetation, trees additionally provide shade and shelter. Urban canopy models (UCMs) are coupled with mesoscale models for assessment of neighbourhood-scale climate, but their representation of urban trees is limited…

A spatiotemporal urban metabolism model for the Canberra suburb of Braddon in Australia

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Decision makers, planners and actors in cities design policies, plan, invest money and build infrastructure, and consumers buy houses and use transport infrastructure without sound information about the environmental consequences of many of those decisions…

Affective ecologies: Braiding urban worlds in Darwin, Australia

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Emerging research on Anthropocene urbanism shows a commitment to human-nature centred futures and environmental justice but fails to engage with the language of race. Thinking the Anthropocene through race, however, has the potential to decolonise dominant apocalyptic narratives of climate change and provide insights into imaginaries of diverse urban futures…

Ambiguity at the peri-urban interface in Australia

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Peri-urban areas display the common trait of ambiguity, in spite their considerable variety in terms of origins, definitions, and extent. Rather than the traditional dichotomy of rural and urban that forms much of the traditional view of this aspect of the built environment, there is a complex set of land use relationships that exist, creating the fluid phenomenon of peri-urbanisation…

Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong

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Mature urban trees dwelling on old masonry walls are a rare urban ecological and landscape treasure. These ‘stonewall’ trees denoting synergy between nature (trees) and culture (masonry) are worth preserving…

Cool Streets Pilot Project: A Participatory Approach to Street Tree Planting

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Research undertaken in recent decades have established that urban tree canopy can significantly improve local temperatures, reduce urban heat, improve air quality and reduce air-conditioning costs (Simpson and McPherson 1996,1998; Hart & Sailor 2009, Stone 2012, Taha 1997 Rosenweig et al., 2006, Gallagher 2015)…

Deep learning-based tree species mapping in a highly diverse tropical urban setting

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Spatially explicit information on urban tree species distribution is crucial for green infrastructure management in cities. This information is usually acquired with ground-based surveys, which are time-consuming and usually cover limited spatial extents…

Development practices and ordinances predict inter-city variation in Florida urban tree canopy coverage

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Many cities around the world have set ambitious urban tree canopy cover goals, with the expectation that urban forests will provide ecosystem services as functional green infrastructure. Numerous studies have examined intra-city spatial patterns in urban tree canopy (UTC) and found that UTC relates to socioeconomic indicators and urban form…

Differences in the impacts of formal and informal recreational trails on urban forest loss and tree structure

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Recreational trails are one of the most common types of infrastructure used for nature-based activities such as hiking and mountain biking worldwide. Depending on their design, location, construction, maintenance and use, these trails differ in their environmental impacts…

Effectiveness of urban surface characteristics as mitigation strategies for the excessive summer heat in cities

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Extreme urban heat, influenced by surface characteristics, negatively affects human thermal comfort. Understanding the thermal behaviour of different urban surface parameters (USPs) at large spatial scales is essential for strategic heat mitigation…

Ethnic inequalities in green space availability: Evidence from Australia

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Evidence affirms that green space has health benefits, but ethnic inequities in green space availability are under-researched. Percentages of parkland, tree canopy, and open grass within 1.6 km road network distance from home were linked…

Green Infrastructure Design for Liveable Cities

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Driven by the need to create more liveable communities and sustainable development, governments are rethinking the very structure and function of their cities…

Impact of well-watered trees on the microclimate inside a canyon street scale model in outdoor environment

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Cities experience overheating due to factors such as urban form and materials, concentration of human activities, reduction in the amount of vegetation and water surfaces…

Leaf my neighbourhood alone! predicting the influence of densification on residential tree canopy cover in Perth

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Trees provide myriad ecosystem services of benefit to urban populations; however, urban development is pressuring existing urban tree coverage. Thus, a pertinent challenge for planners is identifying development scenarios that find synergies…

Patterns of tree removal and canopy change on public and private land in the City of Melbourne

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Many cities face a struggle to reconcile ambitious tree canopy cover targets with urban development pressures. Canopy cover in The City of Melbourne…

Redeveloping the urban forest: The effect of redevelopment and property-scale variables on tree removal and retention

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The effects of urbanization on urban forest canopy cover has received significant consideration at broad scales, but little research has explored redevelopment-related influences on individual tree removal at a property scale…

Redevelopment and the urban forest: A study of tree removal and retention during demolition activities

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Though relationships between urbanization and tree cover are generally well studied, the effect of redevelopment on urban trees, at the scale of the individual property, is not well understood…

Remote sensing of urban green spaces: A review

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A knowledge of the characteristics of urban green spaces (UGSs) such as their abundance, spatial distribution and species composition, has an important role in a range of fields such as urban geography…
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