Sentences with phrase «of urban green space»

A great deal of urban green space is never used for these purposes.

Finding a place to hike or picnic in Scotland's cities just got easier with the introduction of what is thought to be the world's first comprehensive, interactive online map of urban green space — 429 square miles in all.The interactive map, prepared by the charitable organization Greenspace Scotland with government support, allows anyone with access to a computer to search for green space using place names or postcodes, or just by scrolling around, the BBC reported today, noting the environmental as well as recreational benefits:

In October 2016, two students Katelyn Mann and Jesse Brekelbaum from the Green Mountain College in Vermont, studying Urban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queens.

The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.

Read more: The effect of urban green spaces on wellbeing is comparable to employment and marriage

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Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban vertical farming looks like to him.

See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bIM-PRESS%2b20111205IPR33211%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN Following that vote, the man responsible for steering the legislation through Parliament, motorcycling Dutch MEP and IMCO Rapporteur Wim van de Camp, said that «These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions» adding that «riding a motorbike has now become greener and safer.»

Destruction of green urban space, London lost greenery at 1.5 % a year, while only 10 % of England is developed.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

«The roofscapes of our cities are the last urban frontier — from 15 percent to 35 percent of the total land area — and the green roof industry can turn these wasted spaces into a force for cleaner air, cleaner water, energy savings, cooling, beauty and recreation,» he says.

A new University of Washington study finds that urban crops in Seattle could only feed between 1 and 4 percent of the city's population, even if all viable backyard and public green spaces were converted to growing produce.

As part of the experiment, eight volunteers aged 65 and over (from a wider sample of 95 people aged 65 and over) wore a mobile EEG head - set which recorded their brain activity when walking between busy and green urban spaces.

Indeed, this work is the first to be published in a series of papers understanding the impact of green and urban spaces on brain activity in older adults.

Today the High Line, which opened in 2009, provides locals, commuters and tourists with more than a kilometer of green space several meters above the urban bustle below.

Town planners may not have understood the high importance residents put on easy access to generous amounts of green space in urban areas.

But now researchers can study smaller groups of subjects to see how specific factors — for example, noise in the home or proximity to a green space — play into mental illness and, more broadly, urban stress.

When it was first proposed, no comparable urban green space could be found in the whole of the United States — and it seemed unlikely that one would arise on land that could be put to other, more profitable use - especially with New York real estate values on a steady rise.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

Her research interests include the ecology of tick - borne diseases and the impacts of green spaces on urban resilience.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

FRESH Med's Wellness Consultant, Carly Brand, explains the health benefits of green spaces and shares five initial tips to consider when starting an urban garden of any size.

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Paramount School of Excellence, Indianapolis, IN Turnkey Development Program: Renovation with addition, transforming a 50 - year - old building, in 4 1/2 months, into a green, non-traditional urban elementary learning space.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

A concrete jungle it might be but it is also regarded as one of the greenest cities in Africa — a veritable urban forest with around 10 million trees and green spaces, the most popular of which is a real family gem — the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens.

«Through our Urban Parks Program, the Foundation supports organizations working to serve major cities through strategic design improvements of public green spaces.

Set beside the pleasant green space of García Sanabria Park and just 5 minutes from the cobbled streets of the picturesque Old Town, this cutting edge Canary Islands hotel boasts a trendy, urban ambience.

Standards Variance is a group show of speculative proposals around what is possible for urban space (empty lots, abandoned buildings, storefronts, green - space, etc.) in Chicago.

All 275 streetlamps in the park will emit blue light instead of white, vividly transforming the nighttime experience of Amsterdam's most well known urban «green space.»

Erin holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from St. Edward's University, in Austin, TX, and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space.

Multiplicity featured a wide - ranging selection of works exploring culturally and geographically distant urban spaces, curated by Marco Antonini in collaboration with a network of curatorial advisors based in Belfast, Hong Kong, New Delhi, New York, Tel Aviv and Tirana, and presented as a series of four consecutive exhibitions hosted by NURTUREart, Mixed Greens, INVISIBLE - EXPORTS and Union Docs.

Both inventions are part of her flexible and lightweight roofing system, which also includes hexagonal, pond, and silicone planters that can be grouped together in various configurations to create a green environment in black - tar urban spaces.

The vertical garden, or «green wall,» was developed in order to maximize the use of available surfaces in congested urban spaces.

He is the author of many books on social policy, landscape and architecture and was a member of the UK government's Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).

Beginning with his first major commissioned work, «Time Landscapes» in Greenwich Village, NYC, Sonfist received critical acclaim for his innovative use of urban spaces to design havens of nature and green art.

A long - term study by the University of Exeter revealed that people living in urban areas with greater amounts of green space were happier than those who didn't.

As Terry Hartig of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden's Uppsala University writes in an accompanying commentary article for The Lancet, «This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than pretty up the neighbourhood; it appears to have real effects on health inequality, of a kind that politicians and health authorities should take seriously.»

Indeed, yards, parks, public beaches and any small patches of green space even amid the bustle of the urban jungle can provide you with fascinating plants and animals to photograph.

The ideas of yesteryear are falling by the wayside as a new generation of green urban planners incorporate more park space, harmonize development with the environment, and even work on more efficient ways to incorporate mass transit.

As more people are living in urban areas, developers and architects are recognizing this and making a commitment to creating outdoor spaces with green roofs to provide that better quality of life.

This colorful accent living wall for an intimate urban patio is crafted by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, a fun urban garden design / build firm based in Jersey City.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof sysGreen roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof sysgreen space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

Secondly, urban agriculture may also positively impact upon the greening and cleaning of the city by turning derelict open spaces into green zones and maintaining buffer and reserve zones free of housing, with positive impacts on the micro-climate (shade, temperature, sequestration of CO2).

Ontario has permanently protected more than 700,000 hectares of near - urban green space and farmland through its internationally renowned Greenbelt.

when combined, these factors are sometimes referred to as «urban morphology»... «urban morphology (the hottest zones in the city are those with the tallest and the highest density of buildings, without green spaces and with intense generation of heat from traffic, commerce and services);»

However, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the urban and peri-urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a more «agricultural» approach (farmers as povery reduction strategy; farmers as waste reusers; farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).

These include reducing the volume and velocity of stormwater runoff, improving stormwater quality, moderating the urban heat island effect, adding urban green space, and improving buildings» thermal performance and energy efficiency.

Committed to the 2030 Challenge, the firm is ranked among North America's leading green practices with one of the largest portfolios of completed, deeply sustainable buildings, interior spaces and urban plans.

What kind of insane urban anti-planning leaves a major city with only one notable green space to begin with?