Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In this research, the pattern and variation of urban surface temperature is regarded as one kind of landscape, urban thermal landscape, which is assumed as the presentation of local surfa...

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

The application of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) in most regions around the world focuses on delivering the technology to new areas, or “greenfield" development. While it is a noble cause to pursue this, are we neglecting where we have failed to fix water resource management in the past, namely our existing urban areas? This paper shows the comparative effectiveness of greenfield versus r...

Monthly inflow and outflow data were collected from three wet detention ponds in Wilmington, North Carolina, for a 29-mo period. Two ponds drained urban areas consisting primarily of residential, mixed services, and retail usage, while the third mainly drained residential and golf course areas. One of the urban ponds achieved significant reductions in total nitrogen, nitrate, ammonium, total ph...

Abstract Densely urbanized areas are greatly exposed to the risks from climate change as reported by IPCC in 2018. In particular, compact urban settings afflicted heavy storms and droughts, coupled with intensification of Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect incremental heat waves require a requalification outdoor environment that accommodates for both strategic water management enhanced microclimati...

Lima is the second-largest capital of world located in a desert and already faces water scarcity. Here, more than 30% population supplied by only 2.2% national resources. The urbanization process has an informal nature occurs at very accelerated rate. These new settlements lack infrastructure access to other services. objectives this study are quantify changes urban landscape Metropolitan Area ...

abstract planting of olive (olea europaea l.) tree due to salt and drought tolerance and ever green habit increasingly is considered in urban landscape in recent years. the low resistance to cold has been a major problem in using this tree in temperate and cold zones. so, determination of frost resistance cultivars is one of the important measures for use of this tree in urban landscape. to eva...