Urban Parks Quality Assessment Using Multi-Dimension Indicators in Chengdu, China

Zhang, Sining; Song, Haoxiang; Li, Xiaopeng; Luo, Shixian

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“…Apart from the existential needs of the population, the species needs to be adaptive to climate changes and needs to realize its full aesthetical and ecological potential amid the challenging environmental conditions in urban areas. Landscape design, management, and planning are especially challenging since species must be appropriate for the location from both the ecological and aesthetic perspectives [6][7][8][9]. Realizing full ecological potential within certain aesthetic preferences assumes species adaptability to climate changes that are specific to a given locality [10].…”

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Adaptability of Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. to Climate Changes in Multifunctional Landscape

Petrov,

Ocokoljić,

Galečić

et al. 2024

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Urban trees play a vital role in mitigating climate changes, maintaining the sustainability of ecosystems. This study focuses on the assessment of the resilience of cherry plums to climate changes, a fruit-bearing species that offers diverse ecosystem services within multifunctional urban and suburban landscapes. This study examines flowering and fruiting in the context of climate characteristics, expressed through the Day of the Year (DOY), Growing Degree Days (GDDs), and a yield over 17 consecutive years. The results indicate significant shifts in the DOY but not in the GDD, apart from the end of flowering. The onset of flowering was earlier and the end postponed, extending the phenophase by an average of 4 days. The cherry plum’s yield was unaffected by climate changes, including extreme events like a late-spring frost. The stability of the cherry plum was confirmed by the phenological patterns of the bullace (cherry plum and blackthorn hybrid) exhibiting repeated flowering in the warmest year of 2023. The cherry plum is an adaptive species, with a high adaptability to a changing climate and a high resistance to late-spring frosts; thus, it is a favorable choice in urban design and planning, demonstrating resilience to climate shifts and thriving in polluted urban environments. It is especially appreciated for multiple ecosystem services: biodiversity conservation in natural and semi-natural areas, yielding good provisions in challenging environments, and the preservation of ornamental values through an extended flowering phenophase.

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Adaptability of Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. to Climate Changes in Multifunctional Landscape

Petrov,

Ocokoljić,

Galečić

et al. 2024

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Urban design and Chinese culture spirit: the symbolic significance of mountain factors in shaping cultural park

Xia,

Zhou

2024

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An urban cultural park is a symbol of regional urban culture, and it also reflects the accumulation of human culture. It can become an important way to inherit regional historical and cultural heritage and promote the excellent traditional Chinese cultural spirit. The cultural role, played by the cultural parks, is, however, rather unsatisfactory and remains to be improved. It is extremely important to solve these problems and promote the design of urban cultural parks to better showcase their cultural ideas and meet the needs of cultural dissemination and development. Therefore, this article introduced mountain factors and analyzed the symbolic significance of mountain factors in the design of urban cultural parks. This research attempted to interpret the ideas, contained in modern urban cultural parks, from the perspectives of urban cultural parks and mountain factors, and elaborated on the design strategies, expression methods, expression techniques and exchange of ideas of urban cultural parks. Research has found that introducing mountain factors into the design of cultural parks can make them more aesthetically pleasing, with more complex shapes, and better highlight the theme ideas for regional cultural interpretation and expression. This research provides more design schemes and elements for the design of urban cultural parks by studying mountain factors, enriching the ideological meaning and expression of urban cultural parks, helping to promote the inheritance and development of culture, and providing more theoretical basis for landscape design.

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The Impact of Climate Variability on the Blooming of Fraxinus ornus ‘Globosa’ as a Component of Novi Sad’s (Serbia) Green Infrastructure

Čukanović,

Ljubojević,

Djordjević

et al. 2024

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Climate change increasingly impacts urban dendroflora, affecting plant physiology and phenological phases. This paper investigates the impact of changing climatic conditions on the blooming of Fraxinus ornus ‘Globosa’, a decorative form of ash that is a significant component of green infrastructure in Novi Sad, Serbia. The research, conducted over 15 years on 42 individuals in a linear planting near a large river, analyzed temperature and precipitation effects on blooming times and inflorescence characteristics The results indicate changes in the timing of blooming, earlier than recorded in the literature, suggesting that temperature variations and changes in climatic conditions have significantly influenced the phenological phases of the selected clones of globe flowering ash. Additionally, the studied individuals showed exceptional adaptation to climate change and are not considered vulnerable. This study confirmed that this cultivar of flowering ash in urban environments is a key link in the green infrastructure of cities, functioning as green corridors along river flows as a nature-based solution. The studied cultivar is an important element of cultural heritage, contributing to the recreational potential of the linear composition of the promenade, especially during the flowering phenophase, when, in addition to its aesthetic values, it has psychological effects on users of the space, offering a calming influence due to its regular canopy and planting rhythm. Additionally, this cultivar provides important ecological functions, such as offering pollen for pollinators, thereby significantly contributing to the implementation of ecosystem services.

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Urban Parks Quality Assessment Using Multi-Dimension Indicators in Chengdu, China

Cited by 4 publications

References 79 publications

Adaptability of Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. to Climate Changes in Multifunctional Landscape

Adaptability of Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. to Climate Changes in Multifunctional Landscape

Urban design and Chinese culture spirit: the symbolic significance of mountain factors in shaping cultural park

The Impact of Climate Variability on the Blooming of Fraxinus ornus ‘Globosa’ as a Component of Novi Sad’s (Serbia) Green Infrastructure

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