Urban parks provide a comfortable environment for urban residents and workers to relax. Credit: Priya Jaishanker
Urban forests and parks offer a refuge for those who live in urban environments. Many people in cities, especially those in lower income areas, …
An urban forest provides a number of benefits, such as shading and cooling. This urban forest in Tampa, Florida provides a comfortable outdoor space for office employees and urban residents. Credit: Priya Jaishanker
Effectively blending elements of architecture and landscape …
Strategically positioning vegetation in landscapes can maximize energy benefits and save money for homeowners, commercial properties and public facilities. Vegetation can be placed within the landscape to manipulate air movement by
Use vegetation to obstruct …
Trees provide more than just beauty or a source of wood products. Rather, trees provide an assortment of economic, environmental, psychological and social benefits to humans. Energy savings are one such highly valued benefit or service urban trees provide. Did …
Climatology is the study of weather and its changes over long periods of time. The climate within a given location can be described from three aspects: macroclimate, mesoclimate, and microclimate. Macroclimate, mesoclimate and microclimate can be used to describe the …
Urban heat island effect over a city relative to buildings and greenspaces with trees.
The conversion of rural land for urban use is referred to as urbanization (Miller, 1997). Seventy-four percent (203 million) of the U.S. population in 1989 (Frey, …
