Informal urban green-space: Comparison of quantity and characteristics in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Rupprecht, Christoph D D ^a   Byrne, Jason A ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CITY PLANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERB; INFORMAL URBAN GREENSPACE; JAPAN; SHRUB; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TREES;

EID: 84903281200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099784     Document Type: Article

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