The aim of this study is to select appropriate criteria such as ecology, economy, social and aesthetic for plantation in Isfahan city, Iran. In order to do this research, 19 questionnaires were distributed among the experts at the study area in 2013. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique as a multi-criteria decision making was used for evaluation of urban forestry at this research. Exper...

The placement of vegetation plays a central role in the realism virtual scenes. We introduce procedural models (PPMs) for urban layouts. PPMs are environmentally sensitive to city geometry and allow identifying plausible plant positions based on structural functional zones an layout. can either be directly used by defining their parameters or learned from satellite images land register data. Th...

There is ample evidence that urban trees benefit the physical, mental, and social health of urban residents. The environmental justice hypothesis posits that environmental amenities are inequitably low in poor and minority communities, and predicts these communities experience fewer urban environmental benefits. Some previous research has found that urban forest cover is inequitably distributed...

&1 M. Bruce Beck MA, PhD Professor and Eminent Scholar, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA &2 Rodrigo Villarroel Walker PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA &3 Michael Thompson PhD Institute Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (...

It is now well known that a healthy urban ecosystem crucial element to healthier citizens (Astell-Burt and Feng 2019), better air (Ning et al. 2016) water quality (Livesley 2016), overall, more resilient environment (Huff 2020). With ecoTeka, an open-source platform for tree management, we leverage the power of OpenStreetMap (Mooney 2015), Mappilary, open data allow decision makers improve thei...