'It's real, not fake like a park': Residents' perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-218

  Rupprecht, Christoph D D ^a   Byrne, Jason A ^a   Ueda, Hirofumi ^b   Lo, Alex Y ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SAPPORO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENSPACE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RESIDENT POPULATION; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; EUROPE; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; QUEENSLAND; SAPPORO;

EID: 84940038909     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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