Pub Date : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105345
Laura Messier, Beau MacDonald, John P. Wilson
Growing interest in green infrastructure to improve urban life and address the challenges of climate change is often channeled, at the level of municipal government, into programs to plant street trees. Existing disparities in urban tree canopy are well documented, yet the street tree spacing guidelines which dictate where trees can be located relative to other infrastructure in the right-of-way, which serve to severely limit the possibilities for adding future trees, receive little attention. We present a case study of a low- and high-income neighborhood in Los Angeles, modeling two policy scenarios, and find that structural differences between the two neighborhoods (e.g., parcel size, intersection density, and street width) differentially limit the number of trees which could be planted in each neighborhood, suggesting that existing guidelines may be a barrier to achieving municipal equity goals. Less restrictive guidelines were found to minimize between-neighborhood differences in tree quantity, yet substantial disparities remained in tree stature, a proxy for tree canopy, suggesting that shade equity may be more difficult to address with guideline changes alone.
{"title":"Equity impacts of street tree spacing guidelines: A case study in two Los Angeles neighborhoods","authors":"Laura Messier, Beau MacDonald, John P. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105345","url":null,"abstract":"Growing interest in green infrastructure to improve urban life and address the challenges of climate change is often channeled, at the level of municipal government, into programs to plant street trees. Existing disparities in urban tree canopy are well documented, yet the street tree spacing guidelines which dictate where trees can be located relative to other infrastructure in the right-of-way, which serve to severely limit the possibilities for adding future trees, receive little attention. We present a case study of a low- and high-income neighborhood in Los Angeles, modeling two policy scenarios, and find that structural differences between the two neighborhoods (e.g., parcel size, intersection density, and street width) differentially limit the number of trees which could be planted in each neighborhood, suggesting that existing guidelines may be a barrier to achieving municipal equity goals. Less restrictive guidelines were found to minimize between-neighborhood differences in tree quantity, yet substantial disparities remained in tree stature, a proxy for tree canopy, suggesting that shade equity may be more difficult to address with guideline changes alone.","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143672835","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}
Pub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105358
Zhenhua Zheng, Linquan Chen, Yuetong Wang, Ning Sun
Air pollution and green spaces are intricately linked to the health of older adults. However, there is a notable paucity of research that examines the differential impacts of air pollution and green spaces on the physical and mental health of older adults across different age groups. This study utilizes data from the China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey, covering the period from 2014 to 2020, alongside corresponding county-level data on air pollution and green spaces. The study utilizes latent growth models and random intercept cross-lagged models for longitudinal analysis. The study revealed that between 2014 and 2020, the physical function of rural older adults exhibited gradual improvement. However, mental health issues have become increasingly prevalent, particularly among the older aged group. Furthermore, air pollution significantly negatively affects both the physical and mental health of rural older adults, with the impact being most pronounced in the older aged group. Conversely, green spaces positively influence the mental health of rural older adults, although this benefit is significant only among the younger aged group. Moreover, the study identifies interaction effects between air pollution and green spaces regarding the health of older adults. Green spaces effectively mitigate the adverse effects of elevated air pollution on physical health of the older aged group, while air pollution diminishes the positive effects of limited green spaces on mental health of the younger aged group. Therefore, it is crucial to consider these age group differences when formulating environmental intervention strategies aimed at enhancing the health of older adults. The findings suggest that improving air quality is vital for safeguarding the health of rural the older aged group, while enhancing green spaces also merits attention for its beneficial effects on the mental health of the younger aged group.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105347
William Fiordaliso , Sara Reverte , Guillaume Ghisbain , Thomas Wood , Eulalie Ruelle , Alexandre Lefèbvre , Alexandre Reese , Martin Loockx , Denis Michez , Kévin Tougeron
As central-place foragers, wild bees are key witnesses of landscape transformations. Despite a prolific literature on their conservation, the impact of urbanization on bee communities remains unclear, yielding highly context-dependent results. In contrast, few data are available to assess the effectiveness of protected areas in conserving bee diversity. Our study aimed at quantifying the effect of land cover components and site protection status on the conservation value of bee communities within a highly anthropized landscape. We analyzed 6105 specimens across 91 sites, including protected areas, in the industrial belt of Hainaut, Belgium. We compared the effects of land cover components and site protection for several definitions of conservation value, including diversity indices and the number of threatened species. We found that urbanization increased diversity when abundance-based indices were examined, while simultaneously reducing the richness of threatened species. Flower-rich grasslands did not improve diversity indices, but they increased the number of threatened species. Forested areas were negatively associated with all diversity metrics except the number of threatened species. Similarly, protected areas displayed lower indices of diversity, but not fewer threatened species. This pattern aligns with the predominance of forested areas around protected sites. Our results suggest that the decline of threatened species in urban environments may be masked by high diversity among abundant species, a pattern detectable only through multiple metrics of conservation value. In addition, we reveal that existing networks of protected areas in the landscape may not be able to mitigate this decline, as reserves are not necessarily designed for the conservation of all species and may be biased towards certain types of environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105344
Miao Li , Huimin Liu
Urban green infrastructure (UGI), an effective nature-based solution for urban sustainability, is also crucial in coping with the prevalent urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, how to enhance its cooling effect through optimized spatial patterns (e.g., city-level structure and network) has received little concern. Based on 310 Chinese cities, this study explored the multi-dimensional features of UGI and their interactive and conjoint impacts on surface UHI (SUHI) to identify the optimized cooling pathways under specific climatic backgrounds. In particular, the patterns of UGI were characterized by eight dimensions, i.e., quantity, patch size, shape complexity, fragmentation, contiguity, diversity, structure, and connectivity, each using one representative metric. Then the complex pathways of how UGI affected SUHI were investigated using the structural equation model, with the potential moderating role of climatic backgrounds taken into consideration. Results revealed that UGI affected SUHI through diverse pathways, and each pathway covered discrepant UGI features with various influencing directions and magnitudes. Among all pathways, direct impacts surpassed indirect ones, whose performances were largely diminished by multiple complex and counteracting mediation effects. Coverage, contiguity, structure, and connectivity, with the latter two dimensions largely neglected by previous studies, were found to be the primary cooling features. Among them, connectivity, despite its dominated impact in direct pathways, remained at low levels due to limited consideration and poor execution in previous planning practices. Typically, with the same UGI coverage, cities equipped with more clustered structure and connected network exhibited relatively lower SUHI intensity. For most cities, such enhanced cooling benefits can be achieved through mediation effects by smaller patches, more complex shapes, and shorter inter-patch distances. For cities in tropical and subtropical regions facing severer heat issues, however, it is recommended to optimize UGI design by adopting simple and regular patches with scattered distribution. This study extended the understanding of how to configure UGI for enhanced cooling effects from local to city level. The results may benefit urban planners pursuing climate resilient cities.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105356
Joel Jalkanen , Kati Vierikko , Heini Kujala , Ilkka Kivistö , Ilmari Kohonen , Pauli Lehtinen , Tuuli Toivonen , Elina Virtanen , Atte Moilanen
Sustainable urban planning requires identification of priority areas for people and biodiversity that should not be lost due to urban growth. We present a spatial prioritization of urban green areas of the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, to identify those areas that are needed to preserve both urban biodiversity and the equitable provision of recreational green spaces among all city districts. The suitability of urban areas for the Biodiversity Quality attributes of ten taxonomic groups were used as a surrogate for biodiversity, and the proximity of green areas to each city district while accounting for realistic travel times for accessibility. Overall, there was a great mismatch between areas identified as most important for supporting biodiversity vs. those important for equitable access to recreation. Based on a surrogacy analysis, accessibility was a better surrogate for biodiversity than vice versa. When urban green spaces were prioritized over both biodiversity and accessibility, higher contributions to both objectives could be achieved. A balanced prioritization that considers both objectives and includes currently protected areas can be used to inform land-use planning about the most important unprotected green areas from the biodiversity and recreational equitability perspectives. Low-priority areas would be preferred for new urban development to minimize impacts to biodiversity and recreation. Moreover, overlays between biodiversity, accessibility, and ecosystem sensitivities to anthropogenic disturbances inform local-scale planning and green area management. Systematic analyses, such as spatial prioritization, can facilitate transparent and unbiased urban planning, which accounts for the spatial complementarity of areas important to both people and biodiversity.
{"title":"Identifying priority urban green areas for biodiversity conservation and equitable recreational accessibility using spatial prioritization","authors":"Joel Jalkanen , Kati Vierikko , Heini Kujala , Ilkka Kivistö , Ilmari Kohonen , Pauli Lehtinen , Tuuli Toivonen , Elina Virtanen , Atte Moilanen","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable urban planning requires identification of priority areas for people and biodiversity that should not be lost due to urban growth. We present a spatial prioritization of urban green areas of the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, to identify those areas that are needed to preserve both urban biodiversity and the equitable provision of recreational green spaces among all city districts. The suitability of urban areas for the Biodiversity Quality attributes of ten taxonomic groups were used as a surrogate for biodiversity, and the proximity of green areas to each city district while accounting for realistic travel times for accessibility. Overall, there was a great mismatch between areas identified as most important for supporting biodiversity vs. those important for equitable access to recreation. Based on a surrogacy analysis, accessibility was a better surrogate for biodiversity than vice versa. When urban green spaces were prioritized over both biodiversity and accessibility, higher contributions to both objectives could be achieved. A balanced prioritization that considers both objectives and includes currently protected areas can be used to inform land-use planning about the most important unprotected green areas from the biodiversity and recreational equitability perspectives. Low-priority areas would be preferred for new urban development to minimize impacts to biodiversity and recreation. Moreover, overlays between biodiversity, accessibility, and ecosystem sensitivities to anthropogenic disturbances inform local-scale planning and green area management. Systematic analyses, such as spatial prioritization, can facilitate transparent and unbiased urban planning, which accounts for the spatial complementarity of areas important to both people and biodiversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105356"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143627616","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}
Parks provide environmental and recreational services to urban areas, and are valuable for human health and social cohesion. Current literature demonstrates the positive influence of urban parks on property values. This work, which typically examines the relationship between proximity or quality of parks and surrounding property values, assumes the value of park attributes is not influenced by neighborhood context. However, there is a gap in understanding how the value of park attributes varies across neighborhoods with different socio-economic and racial demographics, particularly in highly segregated cities. Using spatial data on park attributes, home values, and neighborhood demographics in the Twin-Cities area in the United States, we investigated how willingness to pay for park characteristics vary by neighborhood income and race characteristics. Some park attributes such as tree canopy and the presence of a dog park had positive and significant impacts on property values across neighborhoods of varying race and income characteristics, whereas park size, bike trail access, and presence of water bodies in parks had positive or negative effects on property values depending on race and income of the surrounding neighborhoods. Our analysis helps to understand how park investments in neighborhoods of varying race and income may differentially affect housing market dynamics with theoretical and practical implications for addressing green gentrification.
{"title":"Race and income moderate the effect of parks on housing prices in a segregated city","authors":"Adriana Castillo-Castillo , Rebecca Walker , Bonnie Keeler , Eric Lonsdorf , Hannah Ramer","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105340","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105340","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parks provide environmental and recreational services to urban areas, and are valuable for human health and social cohesion. Current literature demonstrates the positive influence of urban parks on property values. This work, which typically examines the relationship between proximity or quality of parks and surrounding property values, assumes the value of park attributes is not influenced by neighborhood context. However, there is a gap in understanding how the value of park attributes varies across neighborhoods with different socio-economic and racial demographics, particularly in highly segregated cities. Using spatial data on park attributes, home values, and neighborhood demographics in the Twin-Cities area in the United States, we investigated how willingness to pay for park characteristics vary by neighborhood income and race characteristics. Some park attributes such as tree canopy and the presence of a dog park had positive and significant impacts on property values across neighborhoods of varying race and income characteristics, whereas park size, bike trail access, and presence of water bodies in parks had positive or negative effects on property values depending on race and income of the surrounding neighborhoods. Our analysis helps to understand how park investments in neighborhoods of varying race and income may differentially affect housing market dynamics with theoretical and practical implications for addressing green gentrification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105340"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611452","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}
Community green spaces play a crucial role in providing leisure services by offering accessible areas for recreation, relaxation, and social activities. However, little is known regarding their impact on leisure service benefits perception (LSBP) in peri-urban areas over space and time. Taking Huadu District of Guangzhou in China as a case study area, this research assesses community green space quality, estimating LSBP with human-centric green space images and deep learning. Desktop mapping is employed to explore the spatial distribution of perceived leisure benefits, and geographically weighted regression (GWR) is adopted to examine the associations between the visual environment and LSBP. The results indicate that generally more leisure benefits (i.e., physiological, psychological, social, and cognitive benefits) of community green spaces are perceived during the day than at night. Some community parks and blue spaces demonstrate significant transitions from high LSBP during the daytime to low LSBP at night. Further, the five environmental visual elements, including green views, sky visibility, landscape diversity, walkability, and visual crowdedness, show varying associations with LSBP across both space (e.g., in high-quality residential areas and along community main roads) and time (e.g., during the day and at night). The findings provide empirical evidence for improving the planning of all-day leisure services in peri-urban community green spaces so that residents’ well-being and life satisfaction can be enhanced.
{"title":"Perceived leisure service benefits of peri-urban community green Spaces: Impact of visual environment during day and night","authors":"Chongxian Chen , Xinyue Feng , Jing Yao , Xinrui Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Community green spaces play a crucial role in providing leisure services by offering accessible areas for recreation, relaxation, and social activities. However, little is known regarding their impact on leisure service benefits perception (LSBP) in <em>peri</em>-urban areas over space and time. Taking Huadu District of Guangzhou in China as a case study area, this research assesses community green space quality, estimating LSBP with human-centric green space images and deep learning. Desktop mapping is employed to explore the spatial distribution of perceived leisure benefits, and geographically weighted regression (GWR) is adopted to examine the associations between the visual environment and LSBP. The results indicate that generally more leisure benefits (i.e., physiological, psychological, social, and cognitive benefits) of community green spaces are perceived during the day than at night. Some community parks and blue spaces demonstrate significant transitions from high LSBP during the daytime to low LSBP at night. Further, the five environmental visual elements, including green views, sky visibility, landscape diversity, walkability, and visual crowdedness, show varying associations with LSBP across both space (e.g., in high-quality residential areas and along community main roads) and time (e.g., during the day and at night). The findings provide empirical evidence for improving the planning of all-day leisure services in <em>peri</em>-urban community green spaces so that residents’ well-being and life satisfaction can be enhanced.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54744,"journal":{"name":"Landscape and Urban Planning","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 105338"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611451","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}
Pub Date : 2025-03-10DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105334
Ainara San-Juan-Escudero , Sendoa Ballesteros-Peña , Irrintzi Fernández-Aedo , Silvia Caballero Sánchez , Julia Fernandez-Alonso , Pedro Gullón , Manuel Franco , Leyre Gravina
Urban design significantly influences the physical activity (PA) behaviors of residents, impacting public health and well-being. This study examines how the built environment, social structures, economic conditions, and political context shape PA behaviors in three socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods in Bilbao, Spain. Using the Photovoice method, forty-one participants documented and discussed urban design features that affect their PA, fostering deep community engagement. A thematic analysis of 117 photographs identified four overarching factors influencing PA across all socioeconomic groups: 1) availability and quality of urban spaces for PA; 2) walkability and pedestrian infrastructure; 3) perceived safety and security; and 4) management of community assets. These factors were shaped by public space accessibility, topography, traffic-pedestrian interactions, and the extent of community involvement in urban planning. The study highlights the importance of inclusive, participatory approaches in urban planning to address health disparities and promote active, sustainable communities. Participants suggested specific interventions such as improving pedestrian infrastructure, enhancing safety measures, and increasing community-led management of shared assets to encourage active living. By emphasizing the role of social policies and community engagement, these findings provide a foundation for policymakers to develop strategies that promote equitable access to active living environments for all residents. While the study's insights are context-specific to Bilbao, they offer valuable lessons for similar urban settings, highlighting the potential of community-based approaches in fostering healthier and more inclusive cities.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105336
Qingwei Zhong , Lefei Han , Xinyue Ye , Lin Yang
Background
Few studies have investigated the effects of green space exposure during individuals’ daily activities on respiratory health. This study aims to evaluate how exposure to green space both within residential vicinities and during out-of-home activities influences the incidence of acute respiratory illness (ARI) among older adults.
Methods
Participants were recruited from a prospective cohort of community-dwelling older people in Hong Kong, who were followed for two years to monitor the occurrence of ARI. Using GPS watches, we tracked participants’ movements for seven consecutive days to gather data on their daily paths. The time-weighted spatial averaging method (TWAM) was used to calculate daily exposure to green space, incorporating metrics such as the presence or absence of total green space and its subtypes, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), canopy cover, and plant area index (PAI). Generalized linear mixed-effects models analyzed the association between these exposures and ARI incidence across warm and cool seasons, with restricted cubic spline models examining dose–response relationships.
Results
Among the 134 participants (average age 76.2 years, 82.8 % female), after adjusting confounders, significant protective effects against ARI were observed with increased exposure to canopy cover (odds ratio 0.36, 95 % confidence interval 0.14, 0.88) and PAI (odds ratio 0.38, 95 % confidence interval 0.17, 0.84) outside the home. In warm or cool seasons, total green space and its subcategories also had an inverse relationship with ARI, except for grassland. No significant relationships were observed with NDVI. The protective relationship between green space exposure and ARI incidence demonstrated a dose–response pattern, more pronounced in active mode. No residential green space exposures were significantly associated with ARI risk.
Conclusions
Increased green space exposure outside the home is associated with a reduced risk of ARI among older adults living in urban areas. These findings highlight the potential health benefits of engaging in outdoor activities within green environments for respiratory health.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105325
Fabian Klebl , Jonathan R. Rhodes , Kati Häfner , Annette Piorr
Habitat fragmentation in agricultural landscapes threatens biodiversity. Enhancing landscape connectivity across cultivated areas requires a thorough understanding of farmers’ spatial considerations and their willingness to create semi-natural habitats. We therefore conducted a spatial choice experiment with farmers from ten European countries to assess their preferences for placing linear wildlife habitats (hedgerows and wildflower strips) at the field scale under different scenarios, as well as the role of farm and personal factors. A total of 471 responses were analysed using multinomial logistic regression and generalised linear mixed models. The results indicate that landscape conditions, including field shape, slope, soil quality, and pre-existing landscape features, exert a significant influence on farmers’ decisions, as do the size of machinery, cultural regions, attitudes towards biodiversity, and type of intervention. On the other hand, no statistical significance was found for other variables. In general, farmers’ choices were driven by a desire to minimise disturbance to field work, optimise productivity, increase biodiversity, and address specific environmental challenges. The insights into farmers’ decision-making from this study can inform ecological network planning to reduce transaction costs by pre-selecting likely adopters, and to mitigate resistance and lower financial compensation by identifying best-fit options aligned with farmers’ practices. Integrating these findings into geospatial models could improve predictions of the impact of spatially targeted biodiversity conservation strategies on landscape composition and future biodiversity trends in agricultural areas.
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