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  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,994 Views
13 Pages

Promoting Sustainable Environments through Urban Green Spaces: Insights from Kenya

  • Arnold Mwanzu,
  • Winnie Nguyu,
  • Jacob Nato and
  • Joseph Mwangi

2 August 2023

Kenya has experienced rapid population growth and urbanization in recent years leading to major changes in its natural environment. Urban infrastructure has a significant influence on carbon emissions and environmental degradation. Urban green spaces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,763 Views
14 Pages

The sustainable renewal design of urban vulnerable spaces is critical for urban space quality improvement. Taking Zhengzhou and surrounding cities as examples, a cognitive framework of urban vulnerable spaces is constructed. The three types of urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,272 Views
30 Pages

26 December 2024

Urban public spaces hold significant importance in societal life, playing crucial roles in the development and sustainability of urban environments. These spaces face numerous challenges in the contemporary era. This study examines how sustainable pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
12,104 Views
27 Pages

Sustainable Cities and the Contribution of Historical Urban Green Spaces: A Case Study of Historical Persian Gardens

  • Raheleh Rostami,
  • Hasanuddin Lamit,
  • Seyed Meysam Khoshnava,
  • Rasoul Rostami and
  • Muhamad Solehin Fitry Rosley

29 September 2015

Growing populations and rapid worldwide urbanization are recognized as constituting one of the most complex processes in the world and have raised concerns about the sustainability of cities. Sustainable development, a widely accepted strategic frame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,665 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Tourism Assessment in Urban Green Spaces: The Case of Khung BangKachao, Thailand

  • Sukhuman Klamsaengsai,
  • Onanong Cheablam,
  • Angsikarn Sasithornwetchakul,
  • Watcharee Churugsa and
  • Yeamduan Narangajavana Kaosiri

Sustainable tourism planning is essential for understanding an area’s potential for sustainable development. However, the tourism sector struggles with adopting sustainable practices due to limited research on practical implementation, particul...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,696 Views
12 Pages

Environmental justice (EJ) in urban construction is lacking, and it is a major concern towards achiving some of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). It is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, sex, natio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,897 Views
20 Pages

8 September 2025

Public building-attached green spaces are increasingly important urban carbon sinks, yet their carbon sequestration potential remains poorly understood and underutilized. This study quantified vegetation carbon storage across three attached green spa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,865 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2023

Urban social space and sustainable urban development are both prominent areas of research in urban studies. The development of a city is closely tied to the development of its social space. The level of sustainable development in a city can be assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,004 Views
28 Pages

Sustainability of Urban Green Spaces: A Multidimensional Analysis

  • Veljko Dmitrović,
  • Svetlana Ignjatijević,
  • Jelena Vapa Tankosić,
  • Radivoj Prodanović,
  • Nemanja Lekić,
  • Aleksandra Pavlović,
  • Miroslav Čavlin,
  • Jovana Gardašević and
  • Julijana Lekić

29 April 2025

Urban green spaces (UGS) play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life in urban environments by offering a wide range of ecological, psychological, socio–cultural, and economic benefits. This research addresses the multidimensional impac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,695 Views
29 Pages

24 February 2024

Urban areas and green spaces are significant atmospheric carbon sources and sinks. Spatial planning is crucial for improving the urban carbon budget. However, there are many uncertainties due to the diversity and complexity of the effects of urban an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,163 Views
30 Pages

Advancing Sustainability in Urban Planning by Measuring and Matching the Supply and Demand of Urban Green Space Ecosystem Services

  • Man Li,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Juan Li,
  • Guangbin Yang,
  • Linglin Zhao,
  • Qiangyang Cao,
  • Li Yang and
  • Yang Sun

25 November 2024

As global cities rapidly develop, the realization of sustainable urban development has become a pressing global concern. As a critical component of the urban built environment, urban green spaces are essential for maintaining the sustainability of ur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,573 Views
18 Pages

4 July 2023

Promoting urban sustainability has been on the agenda of researchers, planners, and policymakers. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluate the sustainability of the Cypriot city of Limassol through transportation and green...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
626 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2025

Public spaces are a key element of sustainable urbanism, influencing both quality of life and ecological stability. Using examples from Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Niš, the article identifies proven strategies—such as Superblocks, cycling...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,048 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2025

Forgotten spaces, often referred to as lost spaces or non-places, represent a crucial challenge in contemporary urbanism and sustainable urban development. They are underdeveloped and undesirable urban areas that are in urgent need of rethinking, rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,975 Views
34 Pages

19 November 2020

This paper aims to provide a framework for policy-makers and transportation and urban design professionals to evaluate alternative urban plans and infrastructure design, allowing them to select a set of locally relevant indicators to help assess scen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,911 Views
19 Pages

29 February 2024

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is a comprehensive evaluation system for sustainable landscape, which has been promoted successfully and widely recognized in the landscape architecture industry. However, the existing research lacks attention...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,321 Views
6 Pages

Optical Remote Sensing Method for Detecting Urban Green Space as Indicator Serving City Sustainable Development

  • Tran Thi Van,
  • Nguyen Dang Huyen Tran,
  • Ha Duong Xuan Bao,
  • Dinh Thi Thanh Phuong,
  • Pham Khanh Hoa and
  • Tham Thi Ngoc Han

14 November 2017

Urban green space, discovered by optical remote sensors, is the area covered by terrestrial vegetation in urban areas, and is considered an important factor in urban sustainability. Two sensors ALOS/AVNIR-2 and Landsat/OLI&TIR were used in this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,576 Views
22 Pages

13 September 2016

Aboveground and underground spaces along the urban rail transit (AUSURT) are integral parts of the urban space. Collaborative planning of AUSURT can help to improve the efficiency of urban space use and boost urban sustainable development (USD). This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2025

Urban green space (UGS) is a fundamental element of urban systems for enhancing the quality of urban life. UGS plays a pivotal role in promoting urban ecological sustainability if important criteria are integrated into urban planning programs. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,504 Views
19 Pages

3 July 2020

As cities develop new interventions for climate change mitigation, incorporating renewable energy in urban public spaces becomes a common norm to address sustainability objectives. However, current built projects and assessment practices mainly uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,186 Views
23 Pages

4 June 2022

Complex urban systems, such as multi-floor rail transit stations and integrated railway transport hubs, are termed “complex urban public spaces” (CUPSs). These CUPSs facilitate people’s lives, but, at the same time, are threatened b...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
166 Views
2 Pages

In the context of contemporary urbanization and urban renewal, blue–green spaces (BGS) serve not only as vital open spaces and regional characteristic scenery but also as critical ecological infrastructure underpinning urban sustainability [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,156 Views
22 Pages

Exploring International Perspective on Factors Affecting Urban Socio-Ecological Sustainability by Green Space Planning

  • Raziyeh Teimouri,
  • Sadasivam Karuppannan,
  • Alpana Sivam,
  • Ning Gu and
  • Komali Yenneti

25 September 2023

Urban green space (UGS) is one of the most important components of urban systems to create sustainable cities. This crucial urban element performs many social and ecological functions to facilitate a better quality of life for urban residents. The ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,971 Views
25 Pages

28 May 2021

This study concerns contemporary cultural buildings in the historic city centre of Krakow, Poland, and their assessment in terms of sustainability. The paper aims to bridge a research gap in previous studies on pluralistic values and the impact of cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
854 Views
32 Pages

The Application of Variable Weight Theory on the Suitability Evaluation of Urban Underground Space Development and Utilization for Urban Resilience and Sustainability

  • Hongnian Chen,
  • Xianfeng Tan,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Shuming Xu,
  • Zhenfen Dai,
  • Zhengxuan Zhang,
  • Hanxiang Xiong,
  • Xiaoqing Song and
  • Danyuan Luo

26 January 2025

Urban underground space (UUS) is a significant natural resource to support many aspects of city development, but it is not sustainably developed and utilized during the urbanization process. This study considered 11 conditional and two sensitive fact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,897 Views
34 Pages

14 February 2025

This research examined changes in the microclimatic parameters affecting thermal comfort in three residential settings with various urban forms in the city of Niš, Serbia, that underwent intense post-socialist urban densification. Outdoor micr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,335 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2019

The pace of architectural construction in the Western world today involves exploitation of environmental and natural resources that is unsustainable in the long term. The purpose of this article is to introduce a line of research on urban and industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,606 Views
23 Pages

30 September 2021

One of the most important issues in urban studies relating to climate and environmental sustainability is the analysis of the thermal conditions of urban public spaces, especially urban streets, since this issue seems to affect the comfort of citizen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,496 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2025

The current state of knowledge in landscape architecture of urban green spaces in Slovakia significantly falls behind advancements in urban planning and architecture. This gap underscores the growing need for well-planned, designed, and integrated gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
800 Views
16 Pages

7 October 2025

Urban green spaces are essential for promoting human health and well-being, especially in cities facing increasing noise pollution and ecological stress. This study investigates the effects of audio-visual interaction on restorative outcomes across t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,559 Views
21 Pages

24 March 2021

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) will be an important force to in reshaping urban morphology. The high operation rate and sharing degree of SAV are considered to result in a great reduction in parking area in future cities. Parking space is now a hu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
17,642 Views
12 Pages

19 August 2023

Urban green spaces have been increasingly evidenced to not only improve human health (both body and mind) and well-being but also promote a sustainable way of living for citizens as well as cities. These positive health and sustainable advantages hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,391 Views
20 Pages

8 August 2025

This paper investigates how security-by-design principles can be integrated into urban planning to achieve a balance between protective measures and the openness, accessibility, and aesthetic quality of public spaces. Addressing a current gap in urba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
917 Views
25 Pages

In the context of progressing climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, there is a growing need for effective strategies to mitigate their impacts. One such strategy involves the implementation of tools aimed at sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,243 Views
21 Pages

This paper explores the innovative integration of digitalization and gamification in urban design to address social sustainability challenges in rapidly evolving cities. Using Gensen, a metaverse platform launched in 2024, as a case study, the resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
25 Pages

Spaces, Energy and Shared Resources: New Technologies for Promoting More Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Communities

  • Fabrizio Cumo,
  • Elisa Pennacchia,
  • Patrick Maurelli,
  • Flavio Rosa and
  • Claudia Zylka

19 August 2025

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are central to Europe’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing a sustainable, decentralized energy system. RECs aim to transform consumers into prosumers—individuals who both produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,479 Views
20 Pages

Sustainable Management Practices for Urban Green Spaces to Support Green Infrastructure: An Italian Case Study

  • Monica Pantaloni,
  • Giovanni Marinelli,
  • Rodolfo Santilocchi,
  • Alberto Minelli and
  • Davide Neri

2 April 2022

Traditional land-use planning models have proven inadequate to address contemporary issues in sustainable development and protection governance. In recent years, new ‘performance based’ approaches that integrate ecosystem services (ES) pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,762 Views
11 Pages

10 November 2022

Against a background of high-speed development and the expansion of built land surface, there has been widespread encroachment of natural habitats (henceforth “eco-spaces”). It becomes correspondingly difficult to improve the value of urb...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,887 Views
32 Pages

30 June 2024

Informal learning spaces (ILS) offer unique opportunities for students to interact and develop skills in a more social, resilient, and sustainable environment. However, there is a lack of a definitive typology for ILS and related design factors and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,056 Views
25 Pages

Optimization of Green Spaces in Plain Urban Areas to Enhance Carbon Sequestration

  • Peiyuan Tao,
  • Ye Lin,
  • Xing Wang,
  • Jiayan Li,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Zhenkun Wang,
  • Xinyue Dong,
  • Peng Yao and
  • Ming Shao

12 June 2023

Global climate change and rapid urbanization have placed enormous pressure on the urban ecological environment worldwide. Urban green spaces, which are an important component of urban ecosystems, can maintain ecological and environmental sustainabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,778 Views
20 Pages

Blue and green spaces (BGS) play a crucial role in mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect by not only lowering land surface temperature (LST) but also regulating the urban microclimate and enhancing ecosystem services. In this study, Ningbo Ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
15,580 Views
18 Pages

19 April 2012

Public urban green spaces play an important role in urban sustainability. These places should provide high-quality recreation experiences for the urban residents. However, they are often overused. The Wienerberg area in the south of Vienna, Austria,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,889 Views
22 Pages

14 June 2023

This article aims to understand, from the conceptual proposal of urban commons, the social processes of use and appropriation of infrastructures developed in the framework of urban sustainability policies in cities of the Global South. Specifically,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,107 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2023

Former industrial areas in Europe are being redeveloped into residential and recreational spaces, often including sustainability initiatives. This study explores how the co-governance and management of a productive urban open space contributes to sus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,651 Views
20 Pages

Over the past two decades, sustainability and quality of life (QoL) have become foundational concepts in the design of buildings and urban spaces. Due to their strong interrelation and shared emphasis on human well-being, distinguishing between these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,339 Views
17 Pages

16 February 2024

Sustainable urban spaces, from social and cultural perspectives, can be characterized not only by the preservation of the historical cultural structures within them but also by the subjective and collective meanings contributed by the individuals inh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
328 Views
34 Pages

Urban neighborhoods in India face an uneven distribution and limited accessibility to parks and playgrounds, particularly in dense mixed-use areas where rapid urbanization constrains green infrastructure planning. To address these challenges, the Sus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,463 Views
27 Pages

15 April 2024

The main aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of dynamic indicators associated with urban spaces on the environmental behavior of residents in Shanghai, China. With the city experiencing rapid urbanization and increasing environmental concer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
11,229 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2014

Urban blue space is increasingly embraced by cities as a specific and valuable genre of public space, valued for its economic, symbolic and experiential place attributes and essential to sustainable urban development. This article takes up the concep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,218 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2024

Enhancing the carbon sink capacity of urban green spaces is considered an effective means of reducing carbon dioxide concentration. This study, employing xCO2 as a key indicator and utilizing buffer analysis, estimated the carbon sink service radius...

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