What is the role of trees and remnant vegetation in attracting people to urban parks?

The current effort in Australia to increase the proportion of perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes to manage dryland salinity presents opportunities to improve the viability of remnant vegetation and its dependant biota. At this intersection of ecology and agriculture, many questions arise concerning interpretations of biodiversity from the perspectives of landowners and conservationists, the conservation priorities in agricultural landscapes, and the role of ecological science in understanding the functional contribution of emerging perennial-plant based farming systems to the viability of the native biota. This paper provides the background for the four papers that follow, presented originally at a workshop at Rutherglen in Victoria in October 2003 to discuss the issue of biodiversity values in agricultural landscapes. It then puts forward an approach to research into the biodiversity value of perennial land use systems based on three principles; understanding regional conservation priorities, appreciating farm scale priorities and constraints from the perspective of the landholder, and identifying response functions to establish the role of revegetation in maintaining the viability of the native biota.

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Evaluating the legibility of urban parks based on neuroscience and the FVFL model

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.1108/arch-05-2021-0149 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Yasaman Gholami ◽

Seyed Hassan Taghvaei ◽

Saeid Norouzian-Maleki ◽

Rouhollah Mansouri Sepehr

Keyword(s):

Fixation Duration ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Cognitive Maps ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Average Correlation ◽

Content Type ◽

Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to quantitatively evaluate the role of landscape values and factors in urban parks experimentally based on neuroscience.Design/methodology/approachIn the first step, ten major parks were selected out of 59 regional and trans-regional parks in Tehran for field study analysis. Next, considering the diversity and abundance of landscape elements in the selected parks, Mellat Park was chosen for the case study.FindingsThe fixation duration of the factors has an average correlation coefficient of 0.5865, −0.5035 and −0.5125 for the overall sketch map, quality and accuracy, respectively. The results indicated that the “quality of people's cognitive maps” has a direct relation to fixation duration on “human-made factors” and an inverse relation to fixation duration on “natural factors” and “human activities and behavioral factors” in the park.Practical implicationsThe results can pave the way for further research in the interdisciplinary fields of landscape architecture and neuroscience.Originality/valueLegibility is a superior quality of urban spaces that profoundly affect how people perceive and behave.

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The role of urban parks for the sustainable city

Landscape and Urban Planning ◽

10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.08.003 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 129-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 982

Author(s):

Anna Chiesura

Keyword(s):

Urban Parks ◽

Sustainable City

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The role of woodpeckers (family: Picidae) as ecosystem engineers in urban parks: a case study in the city of Madrid (Spain)

Urban Ecosystems ◽

10.1007/s11252-020-01087-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Patricia Catalina-Allueva ◽

Carlos A. Martín

Keyword(s):

Urban Parks ◽

Ecosystem Engineers ◽

The City

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Symbiosis of Ornamental Plants and Bird Habitats in Urban Parks: FRIM, Malaysia

Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies ◽

10.21834/jabs.v3i8.286 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (8) ◽

pp. 147

Author(s):

Sabrina Idilfitri ◽

Nik Hanita Nik Mohamad

Keyword(s):

Publishing House ◽

Ornamental Plants ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Ornamental Plant ◽

Urban Park ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

Urban Birds ◽

International Publishing ◽

Open Access Article

Rapid and unpredicted rate of urbanization have negatively impacted the lowland tropical forests. Introduced species and destruction are activities that bring harm to the sensitive yet precious wildlife and cause them habitats loss; bird family. This research aims to review the role of ornamental plant in providing food and shelter for urban birds in urban park. The research is conducted by the reviewing of literature and questionnaire survey analysis. It hoped that the review will contribute to the knowledge of landscape architecture on consideration as opportunity for birds in urban parks. Keywords: Bird habitats; ornamental plant; urban park; birds’ food and shelter. eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i8.286

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Assessing the Impact of Vegetation in the Visibility Connection and Thermal Comfort in the Urban Outdoors (Case Study: Shafagh Park)

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1078955/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alireza Karimi ◽

Darya Gachkar ◽

Sadaf Gachkar ◽

soheila aghlemand

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Outdoor Thermal Comfort ◽

Favorable Conditions ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Good Visibility

Abstract Regarding the significant impact of visibility, landscape, and thermal comfort on the presence of users’ attendance in urban parks, there is a severe interest in studies on the amount of visibility and the outdoor thermal comfort especially in a district with hot summers. this research, after investigating the shafagh park based on space laws and the relationship between park spaces with each other in terms of accessibility and visibility to achieve the effect of plants, then, based on the obtained data, the role of plants in evaluating thermal comfort conditions in the park space was investigated and finally, their relationship with each other has been examined. results have revealed that, plants have an undeniable role in improving the conditions of thermal comfort and visual visibility and user movement in spaces, so that, the best points in terms of thermal comfort, had a favorable view and perspective, while, areas of the park that did not have good visibility and landscape did not experience favorable conditions in terms of thermal comfort. Therefore, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who research the problem of thermal comfort and landscape analysis in urban parks can use the findings of this article for effective outcomes, especially in parks with climatic conditions use similar in Tehran.

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