MSN: UF researchers: How urban green spaces can be designed to benefit humans, wildlife
Researchers studied how urban green spaces can be designed to benefit both humans and wildlife. UF scientists looked at some 600 urban green spaces in Broward County. They used citizen science ...
UF researchers: How urban green spaces can be designed to benefit humans, wildlife
Science Daily: Study finds humidity diminishes daytime cooling gains in urban green spaces
During the day, green spaces are cooler than the surrounding built-up areas, but this effect is often counterbalanced by increased humidity. Urban green spaces provide shade for city dwellers facing ...
Urban green spaces are disappearing from New Zealand cities, at a time when denser housing is being planned in many areas. Overall, the total area of green space is reasonable in New Zealand cities ...
Urban green spaces, which include parks, community gardens and forested enclaves within cities, are increasingly recognised as vital contributors to mental health. As urbanisation intensifies, these ...
A new study suggests that city dwellers who have more exposure to urban green spaces require fewer mental health services. A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health suggests ...
Science Daily: New AI system accurately maps urban green spaces, exposing environmental divides
A research team has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses satellite imagery to track urban green spaces more accurately than prior methods, critical to ensuring healthy cities.
News Medical: Exposure to urban green and blue spaces may lower odds of having coronary artery calcification
Exposure to urban green and blue spaces may lower odds of having coronary artery calcification
Science Daily: Urban green and blue spaces are linked to less coronary artery calcification
Urban green and blue spaces are linked to less coronary artery calcification
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
Investments in adaptation will also save over 130,000 lives from extreme heat impacts by 2050. With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development. “The imperative for India to build resilient cities at scale is clear.
WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
EurekAlert!: Abundant urban green space linked to lower rates of heat related illness and death
Abundant green space in urban areas is linked to lower rates of heat related illness and death as well as better mental health and wellbeing, finds a systematic review of the available research, ...
Abundant urban green space linked to lower rates of heat related illness and death
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help improve city planning to account for more green spaces? This is what a recent study published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies hopes ...
Phys.org on MSN: Street green space can help cool cities, but it will not be enough on its own
A new IIASA-led study finds that expanding street green space can reduce urban heat stress in cities worldwide, but even ambitious greening efforts are unlikely to offset a significant share of the ...
Street green space can help cool cities, but it will not be enough on its own
The Conversation: Vital green spaces are disappearing in NZ cities – what can central and local government do?
Vital green spaces are disappearing in NZ cities – what can central and local government do?
Science Daily: People in urban areas with more green space have better mental health
People in urban areas with more green space have better mental health
WVXU: Cardinal Land Conservancy plans to create an urban green space hub in CUF
Cardinal Land Conservancy plans to create an urban green space hub in CUF
The Conversation: Our cities’ secret gardens: we connect with nature in neglected green spaces just as much as in parks
Access to nature is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, as our cities become increasingly crowded, it becomes more and more challenging to find ways to connect with nature in urban spaces ...
Our cities’ secret gardens: we connect with nature in neglected green spaces just as much as in parks
Being near and having more exposure to urban green space and blue (water) space is linked to lower odds of having coronary artery calcification in middle age, which is an early marker of ...
The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprived urban areas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
A new World Bank-financed investment will enhance mobility and accessibility in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma, unlocking economic opportunities and creating over 10,000 new jobs by 2030, while boosting the city’s economic output by 2%.