Sökning: "Green spaces"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden Green spaces.
1. Urban Ecosystem Services : The Value of Green Spaces in Cities
Sammanfattning : In an ever more urban world, the role of green spaces in cities is increasingly highlighted for their capacity to provide ecosystem services for human well-being. Yet, the value of urban green spaces is still widely overlooked in urban policy and planning. LÄS MER
2. Biodiversity and green infrastructure in urban landscapes
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I evaluate the extent to which biodiversity is affected, and taken into consideration by, urban planning. Based on landscape ecology, I apply an interdisciplinary approach. LÄS MER
3. Green Is Not Just Green : human colour perception in urban green contexts
Sammanfattning : The thesis is intended to be part of a larger process and field, by helping to increase understanding of how changed colour characteristics in urban green spaces can influence human experiences. More specifically, the thesis explores whether human colour perception is influenced by factors such as viewing distance, seasons, species mixture, or colourful artefacts incorporated in urban green spaces. LÄS MER
4. Planning Practices of Greening : Challenges for Public Urban Green Space
Sammanfattning : Public urban green spaces are crucial parts of cities due to the many connections existing between urban greenery and well-being. Additionally, public urban green space represents a wide range of spatial concepts, such as parks, urban forests, commons, in-between-spaces, and gardens. LÄS MER
5. A Browning process : The case of Dar es Salaam city
Sammanfattning : The study is about how green spaces and structures of Dar es Salaam city, quantitatively and qualitatively, are browning out. It also tries to explore the different reasons behind the browning tendency, and what it means to the function of the city and to the daily form of life of the inhabitants. LÄS MER