Urban cooling factors: Do small greenspaces outperform building shade in mitigating urban heat island intensity?

Park, Jonghoon; Kim, Jun‐Hyun; Sohn, Won; Lee, Dong-Kun

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127256

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“…Given uneven distributions of individuals with TBI in urban areas, investigations of larger areas (and, thereby, larger sample sizes) are needed. When using broader ranges of geospatial areas, TCC might need to be taken in the context of seasonal temperatures, as alongside its added greenery benefits [ 60 ], greenspace density provides even more protection from sun exposure than building shade [ 61 , 62 ]. This opportunity is available by leveraging the full TBIMS National Database cohort, representing patients from model systems of TBI care from around the U.S. [ 40 ] Larger sample sizes would also allow for stratifying based on injury severity, indicating the real-world application of greenspace allocation or recommendations for environmental alterations during recovery from brain injury.…”

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Branching out: Feasibility of examining the effects of greenspace on mental health after traumatic brain injury

Holland

Cohen

Faerman

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Health

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Branching out: Feasibility of examining the effects of greenspace on mental health after traumatic brain injury

Holland

Cohen

Faerman

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Health

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“…These factors will also limit the contribution of GBI to the public health and well-being of the residents in these neighborhoods (Westerink et al 2013). In terms of heat, air cooling could additionally benefit in all construction scenarios from a shade surplus due to the decreasing areas of direct insolation and the increase in building shade from multi-story buildings as novel studies suggest (Alavipanah et al 2018, Park et al 2021).…”

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Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

Haase¹,

Wolff²

2022

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Cities that begin to regrow after a long period of decline and land abandonment are under pressure to provide comfortable housing conditions in preferred neighborhoods for their residents. On the other hand, these cities should preserve interim green spaces that result from decline because these spaces are a real treasure for densifying cities. Using the case of the city of Halle in post-socialist Eastern Germany, we explore four land use alternatives for neighborhood development close to what might happen: (1) urban densification, (2) spacious housing, (3) the green city, and (4) the edible city. We seek to discover opportunities for regrowth and sustainable land use development by applying the ecosystem services and green points frameworks to a set of land use transition rules. Land use change has been defined for strategic development areas according to the Master Plan and complementary visions of land change. The results of the study provide highly interesting insights into how both regrowth and greening can be enabled in densifying neighborhoods and what types of green are most effective in providing carbon storage and summer heat regulation. Moreover, gardens, as central elements of the edible city concept, were found to be flexible in implementation in very differently dynamic neighborhoods by providing multi-functional spaces for ecosystem services such as climate regulation, local food production, daily recreation, and nature experience. Results demonstrate that ecosystem services benefit flows increase only in districts where real estate pressure is low. In districts with growing population numbers, green spaces are reduced. This may result in increased injustice in green space availability seeing as we have modeled a recreational space per capita of < 9 m² in the Southern Suburb, whereas an increase to almost 70 m² was simulated in the shrinking, prefabricated Newtown. Most importantly, modeling the narratives of the Master Plan in a spatially explicit way demonstrates unused potential for greening in Halle. Thus, we conclude that urban planning should make regular use of such land use alternative to look for hidden combined visions of green and growth in a formerly shrinking city.

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“…Urban gardens are considered important refuges for declining native plant species (Segar et al., 2022) and are recognized for contributions to animal habitat through the provision of food and nesting resources (Felderhoff et al., 2023; Goddard et al., 2010; Majewska & Altizer, 2018). In addition, urban gardens contribute to the health and well‐being of city residents through stress reduction (Marsh et al., 2021), community cohesion (Clarke et al., 2023) and fresh fruit and vegetable production (Alaimo et al., 2008) that improves physical health (Kunpeuk et al., 2020). People learn about the natural world through plant cultivation and multisensory experiences in urban gardens (Hand et al., 2016; Lin et al., 2018).…”

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“…Short‐lived and temporary community gardens will likely have different habitat features, plant composition, and may have a different conservation value than older community gardens (Ong et al., 2022). Furthermore, a lack of long‐term perspective may reduce the motivation of the community garden to engage with and connect with the surrounding neighbourhood, reducing spillover neighbourhood social cohesion benefits (Clarke et al., 2023). For the majority of the 23 community gardens that responded, the lease or land use agreement was indefinite.…”

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In defence of urban community gardens

Egerer,

Karlebowski,

Conitz

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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With the boom in urban living has come a boom in urban gardening. In particular, urban community gardening is an increasingly popular form of horticultural production, community involvement and connection to nature. Through the establishment and management of community gardens, biodiversity can flourish, with community gardens as ‘hotspots’ of flora and fauna within the urban matrix. Gardeners can deeply connect with the natural elements of gardens and thus learn about and gain appreciation for the natural world. Such interactions can combat the loss of nature experiences in cities. Despite their benefits for nature and for people, community gardens are threatened ecosystems as often temporary fixtures in city landscapes due to lack of land tenure and policy protection. In this perspective, we recognize community gardens as an important ecosystem in urban conservation and argue for the defence of urban community gardens by city policy. We formalize this activity and the value of these ecosystems with scientific evidence from ecological and social‐ecological research in 39 community gardens in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Although our data reveal that these gardens support large amounts of biodiversity and catalyse human‐nature connections, a lack of comprehensive documentation of social‐ecological benefits at the city level can make community gardens vulnerable to urban planning threats; we have seen losses of multiple research sites in the last 4 years of biodiversity research. Policy implications: To protect community gardens now and for future urban generations, we call for systematic and comprehensive data collection on community gardening activities and policy support for these urban ecosystems. Some cities are starting to do this and this can be scaled out. We argue for the recognition of urban community gardens as a physical land use and also of the gardeners themselves as important habitat managers and stewards of urban biodiversity. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Urban cooling factors: Do small greenspaces outperform building shade in mitigating urban heat island intensity?

Cited by 25 publications

References 66 publications

Branching out: Feasibility of examining the effects of greenspace on mental health after traumatic brain injury

Branching out: Feasibility of examining the effects of greenspace on mental health after traumatic brain injury

Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

In defence of urban community gardens

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