Cross-City Scaling Laws Mislead About How Individual Cities Grow
A study in Nature Cities argues that scaling exponents fitted across many cities at one point in time describe statistical ...
Tag: urban planning
Green Space Shape Matters at Fine Scales in Lucknow’s Warming Cityscape
A 22-year multiscale analysis of Lucknow finds that while vegetation cover cools the city broadly, the warming association of fragmented ...
Urban Forests Deliver More Than Shade: Soundscapes and Well-Being Emerge as Key to Sustainable Cities
A new editorial argues that urban forests sustain cities through a multi-sensory portfolio of ecosystem services, with soundscapes, mental health ...
Biodiversity emerges as a leading driver of urban green space management across Europe
A survey of 574 municipalities in 18 European countries found 85 percent cite biodiversity as a key motivation in green ...
Delhi’s urban form shapes PM2.5 differently across scales, study finds
A multiscale modelling study links Delhi’s changing urban form with spatially variable PM2.5 patterns and finds stronger explanatory performance than ...
Supermarkets dominate Quito’s unevenly distributed food infrastructure
A geospatial study of 218 facilities found that chain supermarkets represented 78.4% of mapped food-supply outlets in Quito and were ...
UK interview study links weak valuation influence to growth and concentrated power
A UK interview study of 128 participants finds that socio-environmental economic valuation has limited influence because growth-oriented norms and concentrated ...
Cooch Behar’s built-up area expanded 180% from 1990 to 2022
A multiscale Landsat analysis found that Cooch Behar’s built-up area grew 180.36% from 1990 to 2022 while becoming more evenly ...
StreetTree Preprint Tests Vision Models on 12 Million Tree Images
The StreetTree preprint provides more than 12 million street-tree images from 133 countries and tests show that pretrained vision models ...
Literature review develops starting-point framework for cultural ecosystem services in urban landscape design
A literature review developed a three-stage starting-point framework for assessing cultural ecosystem services in urban landscape design.
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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