Motives: Rapid urbanisation and the associated spatial, environmental, economic changes have shifted researchers’ attention to modern cities. Urban green spaces are a vital component of sustainable development because they reduce noise, purify air, improve local climate rainwater quality, provide numerous recreational relaxation opportunities for residents. The implementation city concept can p...

BACKGROUND This paper presents the research protocol of the GoveRnance for Equity, EnviroNment and Health in the City (GREENH-City) project funded by the National Institute for Cancer (Subvention N°2017-003-INCA). In France, health inequities have tended to increase since the late 1980s. Numerous studies show the influence of social, economic, geographic and political determinants on health ine...

The worldwide spread of Covid-19 infections has had a pervasive influence on cities and the lives their residents. current crisis highlighted many urban problems, including those related to functionality structures, which directly affect quality life. Concurrently, notion “smart cities” is becoming dominant trend in discourse development. At intersection these two phenomena, questions about eff...

Due to the massive loss of leaves in parks and green spaces and big cities such as Isfahan and the lack of domestic production of leaf vacuum shredder machine for use in large green spaces of parks, the design and construction of the collecting and recycling by the system is need so the design of the vaccum section which is one of the main parts and includes entrance, channels and ducts and exh...

Information about green spaces available in a city is essential for urban planning. Urban green areas are generally assessed through environmental indicators that reflect the city’s quality of life and urban comfort. A methodology based on 3D measure and analysis of green urban areas at the city scale is presented. Two products are proposed: (1) measuring current vegetation cover at ground leve...

Mosquitoes and birds were sampled for West Nile virus (WNV) in suburban Chicago, USA, in a "hot spot" of arboviral transmission. Viral genetic diversity within this area was similar to that within Illinois and the United States. Diversity was higher among viruses from mosquitoes than from birds, higher among viruses from birds in urban "green spaces" than from birds in residential areas, but lo...

The research reported in this paper addresses the relationship between quality of open space and health related lifestyle in urban residential areas. The research was performed in the residential developments in Ljubljana, Slovenia, dating from the time of political and economic changes in the early nineties. Compared to the older neighborhoods, these are typically single-use residential areas,...

BACKGROUND Few studies have considered using environmental amenities to explain social health inequalities.Nevertheless, Green spaces that promote good health may have an effect on socioeconomic health inequalities. In developed countries, there is considerable evidence that green spaces have a beneficial effect on the health of urban populations and recent studies suggest they can have a posit...