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We are delighted to share some papers on urban green spaces research that were published in our journal Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in 2023 and 2024. In addition, some Special Issues related to this topic are currently open for submission.

The following is a list of articles and Special Issues that we believe will interest you:

1. “Analysis of the Ecological Efficiency Increase of Urban Green Areas in Densely Populated Cities”
by Barbara Cardone, Valeria D’Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino, Vittorio Miraglia and Marina Rigillo
Land 2023, 12(3), 523; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030523
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/3/523

2. “Measures of Greenspace Exposure and Their Association to Health-Related Outcomes for the Periods before and during the 2020 Lockdown: A Cross-Sectional Study in the West of England”
by Ahmed Tarek Zaky Fouad, Danielle Sinnett, Isabelle Bray, Rachael McClatchey and Rebecca Reece
Land 2023, 12(4), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040728
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/4/728

3. “Cross-Cultural Comparison of Urban Green Space through Crowdsourced Big Data: A Natural Language Processing and Image Recognition Approach”
by Shuhao Liu, Chang Su, Junhua Zhang, Shiro Takeda, Jiarui Liu and Ruochen Yang
Land 2023, 12(4), 767; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040767
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/4/767

4. “Beyond Biodiversity: Eliciting Diverse Values of Urban Green Spaces in Flanders”
by Thomas Bastiaensen, Ewaut Van Wambeke, Camelia El Bakkali, Jomme Desair, Charlotte Noël, Kaat Kenis, Lukas Vincke and Sander Jacobs
Land 2023, 12(6), 1186; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061186
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/6/1186

5. “Managing Urban Green Areas: The Benefits of Collaborative Governance for Green Spaces”
by Danny Casprini, Alessandra Oppio, Giulia Rossi and Irene Bengo
Land 2023, 12(10), 1872; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12101872
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1872

6. “Do We Need Different Urban Green Spaces Now? A Case Study of Preferences during Pandemics”
by Ieva Misiune
Land 2023, 12(12), 2106; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122106
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/12/2106

7. “Urban Green Spaces in Bamako and Sikasso, Mali: Land Use Changes and Perceptions”
by Mohamed Fomba, Zinash Delebo Osunde, Souleymane Sidi Traoré, Appollonia Okhimamhe, Janina Kleemann and Christine Fürst
Land 2024, 13(1), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13010059
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/59

8. “Participatory Design of Urban Green Spaces to Improve Residents’ Health”
by Bram Oosterbroek, Joop de Kraker, Sandra Akkermans, Paola Esser and Pim Martens
Land 2024, 13(1), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13010088
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/88

9. “Perspective Swap from Central Europe to East Asia: How Relevant Is Urban Environmental Acupuncture in Small-Scale Green Space Development in the Context of the Republic of Korea?”
by Jiyoon Song, Jessica Hemingway and Chang Sug Park
Land 2024, 13(3), 298; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030298
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/298

10. “Your Favourite Park Is Not My Favourite Park: A Participatory Geographic Information System Approach to Improving Urban Green and Blue Spaces—A Case Study in Edinburgh, Scotland”
by Charlotte Wendelboe-Nelson, Yiyun Wang, Simon Bell, Craig W. McDougall and Catharine Ward Thompson
Land 2024, 13(3), 395; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030395
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/395

11. “Evaluating Urban Green Space Inequity to Promote Distributional Justice in Portland, Oregon”
by Evan Elderbrock, Kory Russel, Yekang Ko, Elizabeth Budd, Lilah Gonen and Chris Enright
Land 2024, 13(6), 720; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060720
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/6/720

12. “Conservation Management Practices for Biodiversity Preservation in Urban Informal Green Spaces: Lessons from Central European City”
by Piotr Archiciński, Arkadiusz Przybysz, Daria Sikorska, Marzena Wińska-Krysiak, Anderson Rodrigo Da Silva and Piotr Sikorski
Land 2024, 13(6), 764; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060764
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/6/764

13. “Multiple Roles of Green Space in the Resilience, Sustainability and Equity of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Cities”
by Paul Blaschke, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Ralph Chapman, Edward Randal, Meredith Perry, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Elaine Gyde
Land 2024, 13(7), 1022; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13071022
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/7/1022

14. “Peri-Urban and Urban Green Space Management and Planning: The Case of Thessaloniki, Greece”
by Maria Baxevani, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Georgios Kolkos Eleni Zafeiriou and Garyfallos Arabatzis
Land 2024, 13(8), 1235; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081235
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1235

15. “Exploring Multi-Sensory Approaches for Psychological Well-Being in Urban Green Spaces: Evidence from Edinburgh’s Diverse Urban Environments”
by Siruo Qu and Ruochen Ma
Land 2024, 13(9), 1536; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091536
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/9/1536

• “Monitoring the Effect of Urban Green Space on Environmental Quality”
  Guest Editors: Marko Bizjak, Jihui Yuan and David Jesenko
  Submission Deadline: 16 June 2025

• “Urban Green Spaces: An Effective Tool to Regulate Urban Climate and Biodiversity, 2nd Edition”
  Guest Editors: Dr. Nikolaos Proutsos, Dr. Alexandra D. Solomou
  Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025

• “Redefining Urban Landscapes: Land Use and Regional Development in the Era of Urbanization”
  Guest Editors: Guangzhong Cao, Jiajie Liu and Yingzhi Qiu
  Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025