Environmental Quality Of Urban Parks And Open Spaces In Hong Kong

2005 ◽  
Vol 111 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kin-Che Lam ◽  
Sai-Leung Ng ◽  
Wing-Chi Hui ◽  
Pak-Kin Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Open Spaces

scholarly journals Paesaggi periurbani

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Gisotti
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Large System ◽  
Open Spaces

The clear and complete relationship that historically linked city and countryside has gradually faded more and more, up to the configuration of the current situation of urban sprawl by several parties considered unsustainable at the environmental, functional and morphological level. While an approach aimed at recovering lost physical and territorial realities may not appear very effective, it is however possible to attempt to identify paths to restore structure in the contemporary settlement layouts. A structure able to newly weave ecological, functional, morphological and symbolic relations between the urban and rural dimension. In this frame of reference, a decisive role can be played by open spaces, non-built-up natural or farming environments which constitute a resource for regaining the environmental quality of the contemporary city; for the construction of a new large system of public and collective spaces; and for the redefinition of limits, boundaries and thresholds between city and countryside. These are the topics dealt with in the book through a theoretical focus on the "middle landscape", its roots and the more recent planning experiences, and through a planning exercise on the Pistoia landscape. The aim of the volume is to attempt to provide indications and tools in order to read and design landscape with urban boundaries, today a strategic sphere for the regeneration of the contemporary city.

scholarly journals Assessment of Open Spaces Ensuring Socio-Environmental Quality in Bogura Town, Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Most. Lata Khatun ◽  
S.M. Farhan Sazzad ◽  
Nowara Tamanna Meghla
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Reliability Indicators ◽  
Moderate Condition ◽  
Spatio Temporal

The present article is the outcome of a study carried out to assess the existing condition, spatio-temporal changes and socio-environmental quality of four parks and six playgrounds in Bogura town of Bangladesh from January to June 2018. A questionnaire survey involving 150 respondents was carried out addressing environment, management, pattern, amenity, welfare and people’s reliability of the parks and playgrounds. The total area of parks and playgrounds has decreased by 8.09% and 14.19%, respectively, in last a decade. Qualitative assessment indicates that Kalitola Park is in very bad condition, while Shibbati Children’s Park and Shaheed Khokon Park are in good condition, and Pouro Edward Park is in moderate condition. The Ulka and Brindabonpara Playgrounds are in good condition, whereas MS Club and Altafunnessa Playgrounds are in moderate condition, and Dhorompur and Medical Playgrounds are in bad condition. The study has also shown that environment, pattern, beauty, welfare and people’s reliability indicators set the parks and playgrounds between moderate and good condition; however, managerial and institutional indicators and amenity indicator need improvement. It is recommended that a proper planning, management and accessibility of open spaces of Bogura town should be ensured.

scholarly journals Advances in Environmental Hydraulics

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1192
Author(s):  
Carlo Gualtieri ◽  
Dongdong Shao ◽  
Athanasios Angeloudis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Natural Water ◽  
Environmental Water ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Environmental Hydraulics ◽  
Transport And Transformation ◽  
Water Flows ◽  
Transformation Processes

Environmental Hydraulics (EH) is the scientific study of environmental water flows and their related transport and transformation processes affecting the environmental quality of natural water systems, such as rivers, lakes, and aquifers, on our planet Earth [...]

scholarly journals Lichen functional traits and light influx in the analysis of environmental quality of subtropical riparian ecosystems

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 107510
Author(s):  
Márcia Isabel Käffer ◽  
Renan Kauê Port ◽  
João B.G. Brito ◽  
Jairo Lizandro Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Riparian Ecosystems

scholarly journals Cloud Computation Using High-Resolution Images for Improving the SDG Indicator on Open Spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1144
Author(s):  
Rosa Aguilar ◽  
Monika Kuffer
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
High Resolution Imagery ◽  
Coarse Spatial Resolution ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Cloud Computation

Open spaces are essential for promoting quality of life in cities. However, accelerated urban growth, in particular in cities of the global South, is reducing the often already limited amount of open spaces with access to citizens. The importance of open spaces is promoted by SDG indicator 11.7.1; however, data on this indicator are not readily available, neither globally nor at the metropolitan scale in support of local planning, health and environmental policies. Existing global datasets on built-up areas omit many open spaces due to the coarse spatial resolution of input imagery. Our study presents a novel cloud computation-based method to map open spaces by accessing the multi-temporal high-resolution imagery repository of Planet. We illustrate the benefits of our proposed method for mapping the dynamics and spatial patterns of open spaces for the city of Kampala, Uganda, achieving a classification accuracy of up to 88% for classes used by the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). Results show that open spaces in the Kampala metropolitan area are continuously decreasing, resulting in a loss of open space per capita of approximately 125 m2 within eight years.

Cladosporiumairborne spore incidence in the environmental quality of the Iberian Peninsula

Grana ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Jesús Aira ◽  
Francisco-Javier Rodríguez-Rajo ◽  
María Fernández-González ◽  
Carmen Seijo ◽  
Belén Elvira-Rendueles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Environmental Quality
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