Role of green space in urban planning: Outlook towards smart cities

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 25, Issue , 2017, Pages 58-65

  Anguluri, Ramesh ^a   Narayanan, Priya ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Green index; Green infrastructure; Urban environment; Urban green infrastructure; Urban planning for green space

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; SMART CITY; STANDARD (REGULATION); URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

GULBARGA; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 85019262198     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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