Relationship between urban green spaces and other features of urban morphology with traffic noise distribution

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 15, Issue , 2016, Pages 174-185

  Margaritis, Efstathios ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Macro scale; Meso scale; Micro scale; Noise map; Pattern analysis; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; GIS; GREENSPACE; NOISE POLLUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLLUTION CONTROL; ROAD; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84957058815     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.12.009     Document Type: Article

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