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A bibliometric review of urban sprawl and urban green spaces research, 1996–2024 城市扩张与城市绿地研究的文献计量分析,1996-2024
IF 6.4 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129115
Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini, Cong Liang, Virginia Yaoxuan HUANG
{"title":"A bibliometric review of urban sprawl and urban green spaces research, 1996–2024","authors":"Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini, Cong Liang, Virginia Yaoxuan HUANG","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129115","url":null,"abstract":"Urban sprawl and urban green spaces (UGSs) literature has evolved from urban growth and landscape planning to urban ecology and ecosystem services with a paradigm shift towards socio-ecological modeling. While research in urban sprawl and UGSs has increased over the years, there is limited studies integrating the interaction of urban sprawl and UGS domains. To fill this gap, we investigate the relationship between urban sprawl and UGSs research, aiming to understand their evolution, trends and set the agenda for future research in urban sustainability studies. We conducted a bibliometric review of 314 documents indexed in Scopus on urban sprawl and UGSs from 1996 to 2024. Findings show that research in urban sprawl and UGSs has evolved through six stages including urban growth and landscape planning; land use and geospatial technology; urban policy and social planning; urbanization; urban sprawl; and urban ecosystem. This shift is occasioned by the advancement in remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS), and lately artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This has led to automation and accurate modeling of complex urban datasets. Projections of future research direction in urban sprawl and UGSs literature tilts towards ecosystem services, urban heat islands, urban cooling, climate change, and urban resilience and sustainability from multidisciplinary perspectives.","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Optimising root pruning responses in mature Platanus x acerifolia trees 成熟梧桐树根系修剪响应的优化
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129103
Andrew R. Benson , Justin Morgenroth
{"title":"Optimising root pruning responses in mature Platanus x acerifolia trees","authors":"Andrew R. Benson ,&nbsp;Justin Morgenroth","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pruning is a critical cultural practice in arboriculture. A long history of research and experience has informed current best practices on the timing and methods used during branch pruning. But comparatively little is known about root pruning. To improve our understanding, three roots from each of 32 mature <em>Platanus x acerifolia</em> (Aiton) Wild trees were exposed via air spade and severed. Root pruning was undertaken in October 2020 and April 2021, representing Southern Hemisphere spring and autumn pruning timings, respectively. Roots were pruned internodally or at a junction (to a side root). Together, these effects resulted in four treatments: I-S (internodal pruning in spring), I-A (internodal pruning in autumn), J-S (junction pruning in spring), and J-A (junction pruning in autumn). Three years after these treatments were imposed, pruned roots were re-exposed with the air spade, excised, and regrowth and discolouration responses were measured. Most new roots grew within 10 mm of the pruning cut, around the traumatic cambium and in callus tissue formed in this zone. The number of new roots produced following root pruning was affected only by position (internode, junction), where roots pruned internodally produced an average of 26.93 new roots in contrast to the junction roots’ average of 19.44. The percentage of the cut roots' cross-sectional area (CSA) recovered by new root regrowth was significantly affected by position, and the interaction between position and season. Roots pruned internodally produced 2.5 times more of the cut root's CSA than the junction roots. The greatest amount of the cut roots’ CSA was regrown by roots pruned internodally in spring, which recovered 17.93 %. When the severed roots were dissected longitudinally through the central axis, internal wood discolouration following root pruning was significantly affected by season but not position. Roots cut in spring had significantly more discolouration than roots cut in autumn. Overall, the least amount of wood discolouration was seen when roots were cut back to a side root in autumn (J-A). In this experiment, optimising the response of London plane trees to root pruning depended on whether the desired outcome was to maximise or minimise root regrowth, which could be achieved by pruning roots internodally in autumn (I-A), or to a side root in autumn (J-A), respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129103"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Limited and socially unequal contributions of rain gardens to native biodiversity in a tropical megacity 热带特大城市雨水花园对本地生物多样性的贡献有限且社会不平等
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129106
Jonathan Almeida , Ana Novoa , Jean Paul Metzger
{"title":"Limited and socially unequal contributions of rain gardens to native biodiversity in a tropical megacity","authors":"Jonathan Almeida ,&nbsp;Ana Novoa ,&nbsp;Jean Paul Metzger","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rain gardens are nature-based solutions designed to promote stormwater infiltration and filtration through the activity of plants and microorganisms. Although they are recognized for supporting biodiversity, data substantiating this co-benefit remain limited. In this study, we evaluated the contribution of rain gardens to plant biodiversity in São Paulo, Brazil. Using a social-ecological and spatially explicit approach, we characterized species composition in 30 rain gardens and analyzed environmental, socioeconomic, and management factors that could explain alpha diversity within and outside the gardens, as well as beta diversity between rain gardens and adjacent areas. Our results indicate that rain gardens enhance urban plant communities by an average of 9.3 species, including 4.8 exotic and 4.5 native species. However, they remain strongly influenced by management practices, with 64 % of ornamental species being exotic, including some invasive. Herbaceous and shrub cover had a significant negative effect on all species groups (native, exotic, and entire community) and was the most important variable explaining alpha diversity in gardens. Species dissimilarity between rain gardens and adjacent areas exceeded 50 % citywide, although no explanatory variable accounted for beta diversity. Additionally, per capita income positively influenced native species richness in adjacent areas and negatively affected exotic species richness in rain gardens. These findings highlight a trend of better management in wealthier areas and expose social disparities in green space quality across the city. Rain garden biodiversity reflects a complex interplay of environmental, management, and socioeconomic factors, and while these systems contribute to urban plant diversity, their potential is limited by the dominance of exotic ornamental species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129106"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Stakeholder feedback on perspective renderings indicate broad support for no-mow management of campus greenspaces 利益相关者对透视图效果图的反馈表明,对校园绿地管理的广泛支持
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129111
Corey Dawson, Alexe Indigo, Paul Manning
{"title":"Stakeholder feedback on perspective renderings indicate broad support for no-mow management of campus greenspaces","authors":"Corey Dawson,&nbsp;Alexe Indigo,&nbsp;Paul Manning","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>No-mow management of greenspaces is becoming a popular intervention to conserve biodiversity and balance other human functions (e.g. aesthetic qualities, accessibility) through integrating the concept of “cues to care” (CTC). Here, visible signs of human intention and maintenance were featured by varying degrees of CTC, where three “no-mow” design approaches were created for greenspaces on a university campus. Next, we surveyed a cross-section of campus stakeholders to provide insight into how these no-mow options were perceived. There was broad support for no-mow management of campus greenspaces, with a design centred around a matrix of no-mow “islands” within a mowed lawn finding the most support across each of the three sites. A design composed of a more extensive no-mow patch with a well-defined border, and an no-mow patch featuring a mowed bisecting linear path were selected less frequently as preferred designs. Thematic analysis of qualitative comments revealed that no-mow designs were preferred based on higher aesthetic quality, perceived human use of the space and accessibility, and the value for biodiversity conservation. We found demographics, site familiarity, and the geometry of patch features were likely contributors to the social acceptance of no-mow design, where a moderate degree of CTC out-performed alternative management options. Affiliation, gender, and age demographics showed students who identified as women and under the age of 30 were most responsive to no-mow designs compared to high-frequency mowing. No-mow management was more strongly preferred for unfamiliar sites, as compared to familiar sites. The curvature of no-mow island features were also preferred over linear mowed strips, supporting a fundamental human preference for more-natural geometry. Findings demonstrate that designed greenspaces that facilitate human uses, feature moderate CTC, and provide habitat may improve public perceptions, and thus the uptake of no-mow management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129111"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Optimization of urban cooling network informed by actual flow of cooling service provided by urban green space from a 3D perspective 基于城市绿地供冷服务实际流量的城市供冷网络三维优化
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129109
Rongfang Lyu , Liang Zhou , Zecheng Guo , Qinke Sun , Hong Gao , Xi Wang
{"title":"Optimization of urban cooling network informed by actual flow of cooling service provided by urban green space from a 3D perspective","authors":"Rongfang Lyu ,&nbsp;Liang Zhou ,&nbsp;Zecheng Guo ,&nbsp;Qinke Sun ,&nbsp;Hong Gao ,&nbsp;Xi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban green space (UGS) optimization is an effective nature-based solution for mitigating thermal discomfort due to its Spillover Effect of Cooling Service (SECS). Previous studies have focused on the internal structure and external connectivity of UGSs, but often neglected the hindering effect of dense buildings on SECS. Taking Lanzhou, a typical valley city in northwestern China, as a case study, this study constructed and optimized a UGS cooling network informed by the actual flow of cooling service from a three-dimensional (3D) perspective. It firstly quantified UGS SECS and its driving mechanism using time-series data, field measurements, and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images, identified cooling sources through SECS and morphological spatial analysis, developed a resistance map based on building height, façade and volume, and further optimized the cooling network using circuit theory and complex network analysis. The results suggested that 1) UGS inner characteristics of area, shape and vegetation abundance and surrounding ventilation effectively explained the driving mechanism of SECS, with explained variances of 77.34 % and 70.62 % for cooling intensity and range, respectively. 2) Cooling sources were mainly located on the urban fringe, while riverside UGSs exhibited higher SECS and contributed more to landscape connectivity than those within downtown area. 3) Ventilation resistance was generally higher in downtown areas, particularly in the eastern parts with dense buildings and residents, resulting in fewer cooling corridors. 4) Optimization suggestions for cooling network were proposed to reduce detected barrier areas and improve topological structure. This study provides theoretical references for the nature-based mitigation of urban thermal stress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129109"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Coupling remote sensing data and local meteorological measurements to predict thermal stress and its potential mitigation by urban forests 将遥感数据与当地气象测量相结合,预测城市森林的热应力及其缓解潜力
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129113
Lucia Mondanelli , Saverio Francini , Livia Passarino , Fabio Salbitano , Andrew Speak , Gherardo Chirici , Claudia Cocozza
{"title":"Coupling remote sensing data and local meteorological measurements to predict thermal stress and its potential mitigation by urban forests","authors":"Lucia Mondanelli ,&nbsp;Saverio Francini ,&nbsp;Livia Passarino ,&nbsp;Fabio Salbitano ,&nbsp;Andrew Speak ,&nbsp;Gherardo Chirici ,&nbsp;Claudia Cocozza","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban areas face complex challenges including air pollution, land use changes, and rising temperatures driven by Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. UHIs heighten heat stress risks, impacting human health and well-being. Urban green spaces, particularly urban forests, are key ecosystems to address these challenges by providing cooling effects and enhancing thermal comfort. In this context, monitoring the role of trees in mitigating the temperature is crucial. Remote sensing optical data may represent a powerful tool for this aim, but available sensors generally provide temperature at a very low spatial resolution that is not effective in the urban context. The primary aims of this study are to (i) develop and test a model for assessing thermal comfort in urban settings with an enhanced spatial resolution and (ii) investigate how urban green spaces contribute to increasing thermal comfort. Remote sensing Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 data were combined to increase the spatial resolution of land surface temperature maps from 30 m to 10 m. The model was validated with ground data. Air temperature, global temperature, and thermal comfort maps were then created for the city of Florence. The results show significantly lower thermal comfort in areas lacking vegetation cover, while tree-lined streets and green spaces exhibit higher thermal comfort. Even vegetation traits such as height and fresh-wood volume positively correlate with thermal comfort, emphasizing the cooling effects of urban trees and their role in mitigating heat stress. This study promotes data and methods accessibility and replicability and supports evidence-based decision-making, highlighting the role of green spaces in mitigating heat stress and climate changes issues.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129113"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mortality rates of urban trees in relation to tree species and size development 城市树木死亡率与树种和大小发展的关系
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129098
Leila Parhizgar , Thomas Rötzer , Astrid Moser-Reischl , Peter Biber , Martin Honold , Hans Pretzsch
{"title":"Mortality rates of urban trees in relation to tree species and size development","authors":"Leila Parhizgar ,&nbsp;Thomas Rötzer ,&nbsp;Astrid Moser-Reischl ,&nbsp;Peter Biber ,&nbsp;Martin Honold ,&nbsp;Hans Pretzsch","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban trees provide vital benefits such as carbon storage and urban cooling. However, limited knowledge on urban tree mortality hinders effective management of sustainable urban tree stock. Utilizing cadaster datasets, this study investigates urban tree mortality across 959,466 trees in four German cities from 2016 to 2022 and identified key factors affecting tree mortality. While assessing annual mortality rates, we found an average annual mortality rate of 1.3 %, with a peak in 2019. Street trees exhibited a 0.3 % higher mortality rate than non-street trees, underscoring their vulnerability to urban conditions. Additionally, annual mortality rates were higher for coniferous species (2.2 %) compared to broad-leaved species (1.3 %). Using multivariable logistic regression approach, significant correlations were found between mortality probability, drought tolerance indices, and local climate determined by de Martonne Index (dMI). Our findings showed that younger and drought-intolerant street trees are likely more vulnerable to urban environmental stressors than matured, drought-tolerant ones. The study successfully assessed cadaster data, demonstrating their utility for urban tree mortality monitoring but highlighted challenges such as difficulty in accessing data, inconsistent data collection intervals, various data formats and less frequent monitoring of non-street trees. This research underscores the need for long-term monitoring and highlights the importance of species-specific and environmental factors in urban forestry management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129098"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Wood property and leaf habit structured leaf resource acquisition strategies across 30 subtropical urban tree species 30种亚热带城市树种木材特性和叶习性结构叶片资源获取策略
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129104
Cheng Zhang , Yanqiong Meng , Fengyu Zhang , Xiu Meng , Qingqing Ma , Jianan Wang , Yiyong Li
{"title":"Wood property and leaf habit structured leaf resource acquisition strategies across 30 subtropical urban tree species","authors":"Cheng Zhang ,&nbsp;Yanqiong Meng ,&nbsp;Fengyu Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiu Meng ,&nbsp;Qingqing Ma ,&nbsp;Jianan Wang ,&nbsp;Yiyong Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban stressors may drive plant community homogenization through environmental filtering, yet the convergence of survival strategies across different urban plant types remains unclear, limiting a deeper understanding of urban forest management. We investigated whether tree species differing in key functional trait differences (such as wood properties and leaf habits) exhibit convergent leaf-level resource acquisition strategies in urban environments, and how these changes influence their survival strategies. We assessed eight leaf economic traits in 30 urban woody species to test the differentiation across evergreen diffuse-porous, deciduous diffuse-porous and deciduous ring-porous species. We found that evergreen diffuse-porous species favored a slow-return strategy with high leaf mass per area (LMA), carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N), and leaf carbon content (LCC), while deciduous ring-porous species adopt a fast-return strategy, with lower LMA and higher nitrogen content (LNC) and photosynthetic rate (A<sub>mass</sub>). Deciduous diffuse-porous species occupied an intermediate position, balancing resource acquisition and conservation. The trade-off between LNC and LMA revealed that deciduous ring-porous species had heightened sensitivity of A<sub>mass</sub> to structural investment, indicating reliance on rapid resource acquisition in urban environments. In contrast, evergreen diffuse-porous species relied more on LNC for photosynthetic efficiency, with greater structural investment reflecting a conservative strategy. Differences in wood properties further amplified these strategic divergences, particularly in the trade-off between LNC and LMA. Our results revealed diverse resource acquisition strategies among species with distinct wood and leaf types. For future urban forest management, species selection should consider not only the evergreen-deciduous ratio but also wood property to enhance ecosystem resilience and stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129104"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fostering social sustainability in dense cities: Design lessons from Singapore's social and ecological spaces 促进密集城市的社会可持续性:来自新加坡社会和生态空间的设计经验
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129100
Silvia Pérez-Bou , Ana Sánchez-Ostiz , Nirmal Kishnani , Juan Gamero-Salinas
{"title":"Fostering social sustainability in dense cities: Design lessons from Singapore's social and ecological spaces","authors":"Silvia Pérez-Bou ,&nbsp;Ana Sánchez-Ostiz ,&nbsp;Nirmal Kishnani ,&nbsp;Juan Gamero-Salinas","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social sustainability is often overlooked in building design, particularly in dense urban environments with limited green and public spaces. Singapore provides a unique context to examine buildings that successfully integrate social and ecological spaces, supported by progressive policies and regulations. This study investigates key factors that contribute to creating community-oriented socio-ecological environments. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) across 31 socio-ecological variables, we analyzed 30 diverse buildings in Singapore, including residential, mixed-use, educational, healthcare, and hotel buildings. Six architectural design strategies —perimeter buffers, horizontal breezeways, vertical breezeways, breezeway courtyards, breezeway atria, and green roofs— were evaluated for their impact on these factors. A composite desirability score, derived from factor scores using desirability functions and K-means clustering, was used to identify high-performing buildings. EFA revealed four key factors: enhancing environmental quality, promoting physical wellness, improving mental wellness, and increasing social amenities. Mixed-use and public housing buildings emerged as the most effective in fostering socio-ecological benefits, followed by educational and hospital buildings, with private housing showing the least impact. Notably, different design strategies contributed statistically to each factor: horizontal breezeways are linked to higher environmental quality, perimeter buffers to higher mental wellness, and breezeway courtyards to higher accessibility to amenities. These findings provide actionable insights for designing buildings that promote both social and ecological sustainability in dense urban contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129100"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Carbon and water exchange in extensive green roofs: A comparison between eddy covariance and soil flux chamber observations 广泛绿色屋顶的碳和水交换:涡旋相关方差和土壤通量室观测的比较
IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129099
Patrick Hansen, Jannik Heusinger, Stephan Weber
{"title":"Carbon and water exchange in extensive green roofs: A comparison between eddy covariance and soil flux chamber observations","authors":"Patrick Hansen,&nbsp;Jannik Heusinger,&nbsp;Stephan Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vegetated roofs are currently discussed as a mitigation strategy to limit the impact of climate change in urban areas by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) via photosynthetic uptake. Two observational methods, i.e., eddy covariance (EC) and automated soil flux chambers, were co-located on a large extensive green roof in Berlin, Germany, to quantify the surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon and water over a period of 4.5 months. The relationship between the surface chambers and the eddy covariance technique (EC) was poor for water vapour exchange, with the chambers underestimating half-hourly EC fluxes by up to 75 %. The analysis showed a good overall agreement between the EC carbon fluxes and the chamber-averaged fluxes on a half-hourly basis. However, the net carbon uptake of −14 g C m<sup>−2</sup> over the study period as observed by EC, was overestimated by the surface chambers which showed an uptake of −51 g C m<sup>−2</sup>. The deviation is attributed to the spatial heterogeneity of the green roof site, e.g., individual plant species, and to the microscale variation of substrate properties, which is more strongly detected by enclosed chambers located on small source areas, in contrast to eddy covariance observations, which integrate a much larger source area. However, soil flux chambers were found to be an adequate alternative to EC measurements for carbon exchange, given that multiple chamber measurements spots are selected to integrate and assess the spatial heterogeneity on green roofs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 129099"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145262071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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