{"title":"Who values urban open spaces? investigating heterogeneity in the capitalization of open space in New York city","authors":"Liqing Li , Mitchell R. Livy","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105259","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105259","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the constraints on local budgets and the availability of urban land, understanding how different urban green spaces are valued by diverse residents is crucial for making informed urban land use decisions. We estimate the heterogeneity in housing price capitalizations of various open space classes in New York City using a hedonic price model. Our findings reveal that the capitalization of open spaces varies across open space types and nearby housing types. For instance, compared to residents who live in properties with private outdoor spaces, residents in condominiums and cooperatives may place greater value on open spaces such as neighborhood parks or community gardens. Furthermore, we aim to uncover how demographic factors are associated with the valuation of different types of open spaces, focusing on two sets of community factors: median household income and racial composition. Our results show that areas with low-income populations or a predominance of non-white residents exhibit substantially different preferences from other groups, with an increased capitalization for community gardens and a decreased capitalization for flagship parks. These insights highlight the importance of investigating heterogeneity in the valuation of environmental amenities and can help policymakers allocate funds for environmental amenities to better align with the preferences of local residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 105259"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
{"title":"Homelessness and nature across landscapes and disciplines: A literature review","authors":"Seamus R. Land , Monika M. Derrien","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The complex social-ecological dynamics of homelessness in natural resource management have become increasingly apparent in recent years. Systematically understanding and engaging with these dynamics across sectors, disciplines, and landscapes has presented a conceptual and methodological challenge for both practitioners and researchers. Though some interdisciplinary research has expanded in recent years, the understanding it has fostered largely remains fragmented across disciplines, and its implications for practice are poorly understood. To help create connections across this fragmented dialogue, we reviewed 111 relevant academic journal articles, books, and reports across a broad range of disciplines. Across this literature, we observed an increasing focus on understanding homelessness drivers, impacts, and solutions through a coupled social-ecological systems lens, though key gaps remain. Research oriented towards urban studies, environmental justice, public health, political ecology, and Indigenous studies offered especially important methodological and conceptual innovations that promise to better confront and address justice in fluid, dynamic, and integrated social-ecological systems. We discuss opportunities for studies to better incorporate community concerns, attend to heterogenous homeless populations, apply multiple scales of analysis across disciplines, address market forces, incorporate diverse worldviews and researcher reflexivity, and address complex social-ecological challenges like climate change. To help mobilize around these needs and opportunities, we encourage researchers, practitioners, and people with lived experiences of homelessness to co-produce a research agenda, a process which could establish a shared foundation for increased collaboration across sectors and disciplines and identify priorities for better understanding and attending to the complex and contested challenges of homelessness across landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 105254"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theresia Morandell , Michael Wicki , David Kaufmann
{"title":"The planning of urban–rural linkages: An automated content analysis of spatial plans adopted by European intermediate cities","authors":"Theresia Morandell , Michael Wicki , David Kaufmann","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapidly advancing urbanization increasingly deepens cities’ interdependencies with surrounding suburban and rural territories, leading to unique planning challenges. Yet, there is limited comparative understanding of how urban–rural linkages are practically addressed through spatial planning. This study explores the extent and variety to which urban–rural linkages are integrated into both statutory and non-statutory local spatial plans. Specifically, we ask whether cities address in their plans the broad set of physical and functional linkages that typically exist within city-regions. Employing natural language processing (NLP) tools for automated content analysis, a method particularly adept at handling large-scale textual data, we analyze 257 municipal spatial plans from 125 so-called intermediate cities across 20 European OECD countries. This approach allows for substantial comparison of planning contents at the local level. We find that urban–rural linkages and the city-region as a complementary territorial scale for planning are addressed more frequently in non-statutory plans and, partially, in plans that were adopted jointly by city governments with surrounding municipalities. While statutory plans show more attention toward physical linkages such as interlocking built-up areas, non-statutory plans encompass broader socio-economic dimensions, including commuting flows, economic, and transport planning. These findings reflect the practical importance of more strategic, informal planning mechanisms when addressing urban–rural dynamics. Our study provides vital insights into the variety of policy fields that are addressed in local planning in Europe and provides venues for future research on urban–rural planning dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 105258"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not or Yes in My Back Yard? A physiological and psychological measurement of urban residents in Taiwan","authors":"Yi-Kai Juan , Yi Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global urbanization has resulted in a dense concentration of population in cities worldwide. In Asia’s densely populated cities, the existence of “Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY)” facilities is essential for public infrastructure development. However, most NIMBY facilities, such as cemeteries, funeral parlors, electrical towers, garbage dumps, and gas stations, are directly exposed to the urban environment without special environmental design considerations. Additionally, Feng-Shui considerations for the living environments contribute to a negative impression and rejection of NIMBY facilities. This study posits a research hypothesis: Do people experience negative physiological and psychological effects in a NIMBY environment compared to a “Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY)” environment? This study employed the Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) to gather experts’ perceptions of NIMBY. Subsequently, virtual reality (VR) scenes based on NIMBY and YIMBY fields were introduced. Heart rate variability (HRV) and emotional state questionnaires (POMS) were utilized to measure the physiological and psychological changes among subjects in both environments. Twenty-eight participants engaged in a two-week experiment, and statistical analysis was employed to compare the significant differences in physiological and psychological values in different environments. The results indicated that the participants in the YIMBY environment exhibited more positive physiological responses. The POMS results also supported the notion that the participants generally demonstrated more stable emotional performance in the YIMBY environment. For future considerations, it is recommended that urban environmental planning and design incorporate more YIMBY elements to promote urban residents’ physical and mental health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"255 ","pages":"Article 105256"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142696472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Maya Dutta , Pablo Herreros-Cantis , Timon McPhearson , Ahmed Mustafa , Matthew I. Palmer , Mika Tosca , Jennifer Ventrella , Elizabeth M. Cook
{"title":"New York City 2100: Environmental justice implications of future scenarios for addressing extreme heat","authors":"Maya Dutta , Pablo Herreros-Cantis , Timon McPhearson , Ahmed Mustafa , Matthew I. Palmer , Mika Tosca , Jennifer Ventrella , Elizabeth M. Cook","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate-driven hazards, such as extreme heat or precipitation, are threatening the current and future livability of New York City (NYC) and disproportionately affecting low-income communities and communities of color. To envision future climate resilience, government stakeholders and researchers co-produced future scenarios for 2100 in response to climate hazards for NYC during participatory workshops in Fall 2021. A commonly co-produced strategy included urban green infrastructure (UGI) because of its potential to retain runoff and provide cooling benefits. We ask, what are the potential environmental justice implications of ecosystem services provisioned from UGI distribution in the co-produced NYC future scenario compared to a business-as-usual future scenario? To analyze potential outcomes and tradeoffs, we integrated spatially-explicit UGI strategies into simulated land use and cover models. We then assessed two ecosystem services (flood and heat mitigation) using the spatially-explicit tool Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST). We explored potential environmental justice implications by comparing the provision of ecosystem services to sociodemographic indicators within census block groups between scenarios. Presently, ecosystem services are disproportionately lower for communities of color, including predominantly Asian, Black/African-American, and Hispanic/Latino communities. In future scenarios we found ecosystem service provision will decrease within these communities under business-as-usual land development. The future scenario co-produced for extreme heat resilience, however, shows an increase in overall provisioning across NYC, including in neighborhoods with a high proportion of people of color. Our results show that co-produced future scenarios can be used to inform strategic future planning for inclusive adaptation decisions to improve future climate resilience and justice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105249"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscapes of thermal inequality: Exploring patterns of climate justice across multiple spatial scales in Spain","authors":"Szymon Marcińczak , Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual , Dominik Kopeć , Klaudia Wróbel , Veronika Mooses","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last four decades, global temperatures have seen a generalized, long-term increase, and Europe is at the forefront of this trend, with temperatures rising by over twice the global average in the past 30 years. And the problem of excessive heat exposure is disproportionately more serious urban areas than it is in rural areas. This study investigates the issue of thermal inequality in Southern Europe, a largely understudied region exposed to substantial heat stress. We selected five major Spanish cities that reflect different socio-demographic and environmental contexts of the country, using the city’s administrative boundaries as our unit of analysis. We used bespoke neighborhoods to investigate heat inequality at multiple spatial scales. To illustrate the relationship between the thermal inequality patterns and the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoods, we estimated three separate generalized least squares regression models for each city, with the outcome variable being the average land surface temperature values in bespoke neighborhoods across the three spatial scales: 300 m, 1000 m, and 2000 m. The actual link between heat exposure and neighborhood characteristics appears to be sensitive to the local social, economic, institutional, historical and geographical context. Nonetheless, the connection between heat exposure and residents’ socioeconomic status, as well as the association of neighborhood population density with land surface temperature, seems to maintain consistent significance, often retaining their importance despite the spatial scale of analysis and employed zoning method.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105255"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Korkou , Ari K.M. Tarigan , Hans Martin Hanslin
{"title":"Integrated assessment of urban green infrastructure multifunctionality: Insights from Stavanger","authors":"Maria Korkou , Ari K.M. Tarigan , Hans Martin Hanslin","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optimised contributions of green infrastructure (GI) to urban ecosystem services are strongly related to its multifunctionality. The challenge, however, is that the concept of multifunctionality still needs to be transformed into an operationalised assessment to evaluate current performance, which is instrumental in supporting spatial planning and policy strategies. Using the case of Stavanger City (Norway), the study conducted a spatial assessment of the multifunctionality of the urban green infrastructure. The study used a comprehensive set of 27 function indicators estimated for each of the 156 spatial units classified by their type, age, size, and biophysical characteristics. Correlation patterns among indicators and how the average and effective multifunctionality related to unit characteristics were analysed using correlation and multivariate approaches.</div><div>The study demonstrated weak correlations between function indicators but revealed some potential trade-offs and function bundles. Notably, bundles related to tree cover (e.g. C sequestration, stormwater retention) had negative relationships with facilitation measures. There was a large overlap in functions between GI types associated with public green spaces and parks. Moreover, the characteristics of green infrastructure units, like size and age, primarily affected multifunctionality through effects on function indicators. Regarding the city-wide multifunctionality, we found some turnover and subsetting of functions among units, supporting multifunctionality at larger spatial scales. However, the average contributions from different GI types were similar. The study highlights the need to understand correlation patterns among function indicators and function bundles as critical to benefit from synergies and avoid unintentional trade-offs when designing and managing urban green areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105257"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrian Buttazzoni , Lindsey Smith , Ryan Lo , Alexander James David Wray , Jason Gilliland , Leia Minaker
{"title":"“I like seeing people, different cultures, and hearing different music”: Exploring adolescent perspectives of inclusive and healthy high-rise and dense urban environment designs","authors":"Adrian Buttazzoni , Lindsey Smith , Ryan Lo , Alexander James David Wray , Jason Gilliland , Leia Minaker","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As countries continue to urbanize, an increasing number of adolescents will live in densely populated urban areas, often residing in high-rise buildings. Despite these trends, many high-rises, and their surrounding areas, sparsely consider the needs of adolescents. This results in urban environments that are often ill-suited to sufficiently support the health and development of adolescents. In the present study, we conducted geo-logged and participant-led go-along interviews lasting between 40–120 min and travelling ∼ 1 km, from July-December 2023 to explore how adolescents (13–18 years; n = 22) perceived the inclusiveness and health-promoting qualities of high-rise and densified urban environments. We employed Gehl’s Inclusive Healthy Place Framework (IHPF) to inform our abductive thematic analysis and frame our ensuing discussions via its four guiding principles (i.e., context, process, design and program, sustain). Our findings outline 11 distinct themes highlighting the importance of desirable social and cultural activity options, meaningful local sites, and diversity in the local active use designs and spaces. Conversely, adolescents expressed worries regarding weak social connectivity, poor sanitation, lacking place legibility, and ‘anti-social’ designs. We discuss specific implications for urban design, planning, and health audiences regarding building (e.g., communal space) and neighborhood (e.g., streetscapes with patios) design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105252"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142663731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-species ecological network based on asymmetric movement: Application in an urban rural fringe","authors":"Mengyang Wang , Xue-yi You , Shu-ming Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecological network (EN) is a popular approach for biodiversity conservation, which aims to facilitate animal movement between habitats. However, asymmetric movement caused by the subjectivity of animals and environment heterogeneity is seldom considered in EN design. To design EN based on asymmetric movement, an individual-based model, PDArunner, is developed, which can identify corridors based on explicit movement paths. Since the urban–rural fringe is susceptible to landscape change, a multi-species EN based on asymmetric movement is designed for Jinnan district, Tianjin, China by simulating movement of <em>Mustela sibirica</em>, <em>Spilopelia chinensis</em> and <em>Gallinula chloropus</em> using PDArunner. Asymmetric movement is partitioned based on the size of departure and arrival habitats. Asymmetric corridors are thus identified based on movement in particular direction. In Jinnan, successful transfer rate of focal species from small to large habitat increases with difference in habitat size. The spatial extent of asymmetric corridors is more concentrated for <em>G. chloropus</em>. There are more corridors from large to small habitats than in the opposite direction, especially for <em>S. chinensis</em> and <em>G. chloropus</em>. There are more one-way corridors for <em>S. chinensis</em> and <em>G. chloropus</em> than <em>M. sibirica</em>. Perceptible high vegetation coverage places with large enough contrast to environment are suggested to be consecutive within 50 m for <em>M. sibirica</em> in Jinnan, which also benefits <em>S. chinensi</em>. <em>G. chloropus</em> can benefit from well-conserved water quality and quantity. A cross-administration collaboration is also highlighted for large scale conservation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105253"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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}
Cate Heine , Timur Abbiasov , Paolo Santi , Carlo Ratti
{"title":"The role of urban amenities in facilitating social mixing: Evidence from Stockholm","authors":"Cate Heine , Timur Abbiasov , Paolo Santi , Carlo Ratti","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Though the existence of socioeconomic segregation in social interactions has been consistently documented and compared across cities in a growing body of literature, less attention has been paid to within-city analysis of the types of places at which particularly integrated or segregated interactions occur. Dependencies between socioeconomic profile, residential location, preferences and behavior make this kind of analysis difficult. Further, beyond understanding where diverse social interactions take place, it is important to know whether increasing access to those types of spaces via changes to the transportation network can actually increase the level of diversity in social interactions—a more causal question that remains relatively unexplored in the literature. This study presents new perspectives on analyzing social mixing and socioeconomic integration in cities using geolocated cellphone data. Using a call detail record dataset which describes the movements of over one million cell phone users in Stockholm, Sweden, this study quantifies the contribution of access to various types of urban amenities to one’s exposure to people with diverse income levels. Our results provide evidence that areas of the city with more libraries, educational institutions, healthcare establishments, parks and restaurants host more exposures between people who are different from one another in terms of income. Further, we leverage random shocks to the transportation network that come from maintenance-based road closures to identify a causal relationship between access to parks, services and healthcare establishments and experienced income diversity. Temporary, random increases in travel times to these spaces due to road closures result in less diverse day-to-day encounters for urban residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"254 ","pages":"Article 105250"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142637415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}