Categories of residential spaces by their accessibility to urban parks - indicator of sustainability in human settlements case study: Bucharest

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 307-316

  Ioja, Cristian ^a   Patroescu, Maria ^a   Nita, Mihai ^a   Rozylowicz, Laurentiu ^a   Vanau, Gabriel ^a   Ioja, Annemarie ^a   Onose, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Bucharest; Housing; Residential areas; Romania; Urban parks; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; FUTURE PROSPECT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSTAINABILITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING;

BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; ROMANIA;

EID: 77954380114     PISSN: 17905079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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