Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-125

  Sarkar, Chinmoy ^a   Webster, Chris ^a   Pryor, Matthew ^a   Tang, Dorothy ^a   Melbourne, Scott ^a   Zhang, Xiaohu ^a   Jianzheng, Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

LTDS; NDVI; SDNA; Street trees; Urban green; Urban morphology; Walking

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

LTDS; NDVI; SDNA; STREET TREES; URBAN GREEN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; WALKING;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COLOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GREENSPACE; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING; WALKING;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84937411447     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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