The effects of land use on spatial pattern of urban green spaces and their cooling ability

Urban green spaces (UGSs) improve the quality of life of urban inhabitants. With the acceleration of urbanization and changes in traffic networks, it remains unclear whether changes in the distribution of UGSs can satisfy the needs of all inhabitants and offer equal services to inhabitants from different socioeconomic backgrounds. This study addresses this issue by analyzing dynamic changes in UGS accessibility in 2012, 2016, and 2020 for inhabitants of the central urban area of Fuzhou in China at the community level. The study introduces multiple transportation modes for an accessibility estimation based on a framework using the two-step floating catchment area method and examines the dynamic changes in community deprivation of UGS accessibility using Kernel regularized least squares, a machine learning algorithm. The results demonstrate that spatial disparities of UGS accessibility exist among the multi-transport modes and vary with time. Communities with high accessibility to UGSs by walking are scattered around the urban area; for accessibility by cycling, the high accessibility regions expand and surround the regions with low accessibility in the core urban areas, forming a semi-enclosed spatial pattern. However, the core urban spatial orientation of UGS accessibility by public transit demonstrates a reverse trend to the above two modes. The spatial pattern of UGS accessibility also varies over time, and the growth rate of accessibility slightly declined during the study period. Furthermore, the increase in UGS accessibility tended to slow from 2016–2020 compared with 2012–2016, and the trend toward equality was also erratic. The degree of deprivation for communities first weakened and was then aggravated, corresponding to the slowdown in the growth rate of accessibility, leading to the persistence existence of social inequality. Moreover, significant deprivation mainly exists among less educated people or those using the cycling and integrated travel modes. Although public transport is developing, deprived communities, such as communities with large proportion of older people, have experienced a decline in access to UGSs by public transport. Based on these findings, the study proposes a policy framework for the balanced distribution of UGSs as part of urbanization.

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Challenges of Urban Green Space and Its Accessibility in Planning District-12, Mysuru City

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.a5802.0510121 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 137-141

Author(s):

Yashaswini S* ◽

Shankar B

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Green Space ◽

City Planning ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Planning System ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

Wide Range ◽

The City

Improving the Accessibility of Urban Green Space (UGS) is an integral part of city planning system. People with better access to green space enjoy a wide range of health benefits. Therefore, it is a crucial element to be taken care and nourished in a land use framework. Mysore City is one of the planned large cities in India. The City had a population of about 0.9 million in 2011 and it is estimated to cross the million mark by 2021. There is a growing consciousness on health and wellbeing among the people resulting an increasing demand for urban green spaces both at neighbourhood and city levels. The accessibility helps in promoting usage of UGS and maintaining the balance in environment within the city areas. The main aim of this paper is to study the existing scenario of the UGS within the planning district-12 and to analyse the green space accessibility. The land use of Mysuru city is analysed to understand the city and the micro level land use analysis of Planning district-12 is made. The existing scenario of the UGS within the study area and its accessibility is analysed using different accessibility indicators. Considering the key findings, issues and challenges are identified. Later the suggestions and recommendations for the identified issues is proposed to enhance the green spaces quality and accessibility at neighbourhood levels. The Accessible Natural Green space Standard (ANGst) type of accessibility analysis has been carried to know UGS functionality. Henceforth urban green space network at Planning District levels (local levels) in the City of Mysuru is prepared as a model which can be implemented to the city as whole at the later stages

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Multi-year comparison of the effects of spatial pattern of urban green spaces on urban land surface temperature

Landscape and Urban Planning ◽

10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.10.023 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 184 ◽

pp. 44-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Mahyar Masoudi ◽

Puay Yok Tan

Keyword(s):

Surface Temperature ◽

Spatial Pattern ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Urban Land ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces

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Urban Green Spaces—An Underestimated Resource in Third-Tier Towns in Poland

Land ◽

10.3390/land9110453 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 453

Author(s):

Marcin Feltynowski ◽

Jakub Kronenberg

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Satellite Imagery ◽

Management Practices ◽

Green Space ◽

Arable Land ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Landsat 8 ◽

Interconnected System ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces

Urban green spaces are frequently presented as being important for urban quality of life and urban development in general, but more detailed interpretations and discussions are typically confined to large urban centers, the so-called first- and second-tier cities. Not enough attention has been paid to smaller urban units, the third-tier towns. The main goal of this article is to investigate the share and types of urban green spaces in five selected towns in Poland. We compare different sources of data based on satellite imagery and land-use maps with those used in public statistics, to check whether town authorities are managing all potential green spaces or only a selected part of them. We find that the predominantly used data, based on what is classified as “urban green space” for the purposes of public statistics, obscure the complexity of urban green spaces and focus on the narrowly understood formally managed public green spaces (which occupy 3.5–5.7% of town areas). Meanwhile, based on other sources, such as the national land-use map (BDOT10k), Urban Atlas, and satellite imagery (Landsat 8), what is considered to be green space turns out to cover 50–80% of the town area. The latter large numbers are associated with the predominance of arable land, grasslands, and forests, overlooked in any green space management practices based on data and definitions adopted for the purposes of public statistics. The situation found in our five case study towns resembles that identified in larger cities in Poland, and it exhibits the inadequacy of public statistics definitions and the related management practices, hindering the management of urban green spaces as an interconnected system of urban green infrastructures.

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Climate Regulation by Diverse Urban Green Spaces: Risks and Opportunities Related to Climate and Land Use Change

Atlas of Ecosystem Services ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_26 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 167-172

Author(s):

Sonja Knapp ◽

Madhumitha Jaganmohan ◽

Nina Schwarz

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

Climate Regulation

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Urban green spaces, their spatial pattern, and ecosystem service value: The case of Beijing

Habitat International ◽

10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.04.005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 84-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Liyan Xu ◽

Hong You ◽

Dihua Li ◽

Kongjian Yu

Keyword(s):

Spatial Pattern ◽

Ecosystem Service ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Ecosystem Service Value ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

Service Value

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Vegetation attributes drive the taxonomic richness and functional composition of beetles and spiders in mountainous urban green spaces

Energy Ecology and Environment ◽

10.1007/s40974-021-00236-z ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick Gyasi Damptey ◽

Bernard Fosu Frimpong ◽

Daniel Kwame Debrah ◽

Prince Pascal Agro ◽

Edward Debrah Wiafe

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Functional Groups ◽

Structural Complexity ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Functional Composition ◽

Taxonomic Richness ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

Land Use Types ◽

Activity Density

AbstractUrban green spaces (UGS) enhance the quality of life in urban environments and serve as habitat corridors or refuge for organisms, including beetles and spiders. The attributes of UGS allow them to harbour species that offer essential ecosystem services. However, the ability of UGS to provide services is limited by the extent to which they have been altered anthropogenically. We described the taxonomic richness and functional composition of arthropods in a mountainous urban ecosystem of Ghana by focussing on the activity of both beetles and spiders at the family level. Two main land-use types (woodlands and built-up areas) were identified and characterised based on the presence or absence of certain vegetation attributes. Sixteen plots in each land-use type with sizes 20 × 20 m were demarcated and fitted with four pitfall traps in each plot to sample continuously for eight weeks, the activity density of both beetles and spiders. Samples were sorted into families and functional groups (detritivores, fungivores, herbivory and predators). The taxonomic richness and activity density were both significantly higher in the woodlands than in the built-up areas. Similarly, all functional groups showed a higher affinity to the woodlands than the built-up areas. Habitat attributes defined by plant diversity and structural complexity were the underlying drivers explaining the differences in arthropod communities between the land-use types. Though the built-up areas seem degraded and open, the remaining small vegetation patches still support the activities of some taxa that should merit the protection of such remnant vegetation in urban ecosystems.

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