A planning strategy to augment the diversity and biomass of roadside trees in urban Hong Kong

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-32

  Jim, C Y ^a  

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Author keywords

Hong Kong; Potential planting sites; Roadside greenspace; Roadside trees; Species selection; Tree planting plan; Urban greening; Urban trees

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; TREE; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0033105746     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(98)00113-3     Document Type: Article

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