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Jiawei Lin, Dongying Li and Robert D. Brown
Global climate change and urban heat island intensification are making many cities dangerously hot during heat waves. There is a need for a clear process for applying microclimate information in urban design to create cooler cities. A recent paper points...
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Kamiya Varshney, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Nilesh Bakshi
Carbon sequestration (CS) and habitat provisioning (HP) through building-integrated vegetation are interlinked approaches that could potentially reduce climate change and biodiversity loss attributed to the built environment. However, a practical approac...
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George L. Vourlitis, Emma Lousie van der Veen, Sebastian Cangahuala, Garrett Jaeger, Colin Jensen, Cinzia Fissore, Eric M. Wood, Joel K. Abraham, Kevin S. Whittemore, Elijah Slaven, Dustin VanOverbeke, James Blauth, Elizabeth Braker, Nina Karnovsky and Wallace M. Meyer III
Urban landscaping conversions can alter decomposition processes and soil respiration, making it difficult to forecast regional CO2 emissions. Here we explore rates of initial mass loss and net nitrogen (N) mineralization in natural and four common urban ...
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Xianglong Tang, Tianfeng Wei, Yueming He and Kun He
As the primary component of urban green space, parks play an important role in improving local environments and quality of life for city inhabitants. To date, much research on urban park plant community characteristics has been conducted worldwide, but s...
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Daniel Silver, Mark S. Fox and Patrick Adler
This paper develops a formal model of urban evolution in terms of (1) sources of variations; (2) principles of selection; and (3) mechanisms of retention. More specifically, regarding (1) it defines local and environmental sources of variation and identi...
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