Urban vacant land typology: A tool for managing urban vacant land

Kim, Gunwoo; Miller, Patrick; Nowak, David J.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2017.09.014

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“…i-Tree Eco (formerly called UFORE, Urban Forest Effects Model) is designed to utilize standardized field data from sample plots or complete inventories, together with local hourly air pollution and meteorological data to analyze a detailed characterization of urban forest structure and quantify numerous ecological services for cities [25]. The i-Tree model has been widely used in case studies across the world to assess total ecosystem services for whole research areas without stratification or to compare one single stratum within a research area [50][51][52][53][54]. This research represents an innovative application of i-Tree Eco, using pre-stratified random sample plots created within the four types of urban green spaces to reveal the various characterizations of diverse types of urban green spaces in Luohe.…”

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Urban green spaces play a crucial role in maintaining urban ecosystem sustainability by providing numerous ecosystem services. How to quantify and evaluate the ecological benefits and services of urban green spaces remains a hot topic currently, while the evaluation is barely applied or implemented in urban design and planning. In this study, super-high-resolution aerial images were used to acquire the spatial distribution of urban green spaces; a modified pre-stratified random sampling method was applied to obtain the vegetation information of the four types of urban green spaces in Luohe, a common plain city in China; and i-Tree Eco model was further used to assess the vegetation structure and various ecosystem services including air quality improvement, rainfall interception, carbon storage, and sequestration provided by four types of urban green spaces. The modeling results reveal that there were about 1,006,251 trees in this area. In 2013, all the trees in these green spaces could store about 54,329 t of carbon, sequester about 4973 t of gross carbon, remove 92 t of air pollutants, and avoid 122,637 m 3 of runoff. The study illustrates an innovative method to reveal different types of urban green spaces with distinct ecosystem service productivity capacity to better understand their various roles in regulating the urban environment. The results could be used to assist urban planners and policymakers to optimize urban green space structure and composition to maximize ecosystem services provision.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1630 2 of 16 of various vegetation communities within the urban area [24][25][26][27][28][29], while there are few studies that analyze variations in types and functions of urban green spaces at finer scales [1,22,30]. Urban green spaces are divided into several types, reflecting the different needs that these spaces meet, which could further affect the different ecosystem services provision. The capacity of various green spaces ecosystem services provision is context-specific and different depending on their type and size [31,32]. Various types of urban green spaces such as public parks, road belt green space, wetland, and private gardens are extremely heterogeneous with different vegetation communities and diversities reflecting diverse social needs and personal preferences that further influence eco-function value provision [33].In China, spatially heterogeneous urban green spaces are classified into four main types, which are public parks, protective green spaces, square green spaces, and attached green spaces by individual location and function across urban area based on Standard for Classification of Urban Green Space (CJJ/T85-2017), which was released by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of P.R.C. in 2017. Different social needs and ecological values that are driven by landowners' preferences and function-oriented design bring various types of urban green spaces [34]. Diverse vegetation preferences and differing management and maintenance practices reflect human-oriented d...

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“…Utilization of vacant spaces in developing and developed regions have been minimal, thus neglecting a valuable resource. If identified and used intelligently, it may prove to be competitive asset for socio-economic development, as this may increase gross domestic product (GDP), increase the revenue generated from taxes, create new job opportunities, improve infrastructure and transportation facilities of the region and attract the masses migrating to congested metropolitan cities [10].…”

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Integrated Land-Use Zoning, Using Topographical Data: Optimizing Vacant Space for Urbanization at Akole Taluka, Maharashtra, India

Shastri¹,

Narwade²,

Nagarajan³

2019

IJARET

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Integrated urban land-use planning is becoming increasingly complex in India, as there is noticeable migration of rural population towards developed cities. Main reason behind it being, lack of education and employment opportunities, low levels of socioeconomic development, as well as poor urban infrastructural base of rural areas. It is necessary to identify these areas and optimize its poorly developed or vacant spaces, to effectively manage the transformation of India's underdeveloped and rural areas into developed cities, resulting in development of the Country. This research attempts to present an integrative approach to the problem of land-use planning with the help of a conceptual model. The study examines, congested cities and identifies vacant spaces or underdeveloped areas adjoining them. Based on it, a village-Akole taluka in Ahmednagar district, adjoining two developed cities-Mumbai and Pune, of Maharashtra State, is analyzed for transformation and redevelopment purpose, through the use of topographic data. Finally, it is aimed at implementing new urbanism principles to the study area and produce a land-use model to maximize the quality of life of its people. Providing useful information for development of planning and design strategies for sustainable urbanization and enhancing quality of life is need of the hour. Therefore, key purpose of this research is to increase productiveness of citizen's habitat, by optimizing the use of vacant land. This is achieved by proposing an Urban

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“…Empty spaces (i.e. undeveloped areas, wastelands, open or green spaces) are becoming increasingly popular subjects of discussions in the context of urban densification (Gunwoo, 2016;Kim, Miller, and Nowak 2018). The need to secure that kind of areas as valuable resources as well as the importance of providing basic infrastructure, are conditions for a sustainable urban development breakthrough in public awareness.…”

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The importance of empty spaces in cities and a proposed set of tools to support their use

Pluta¹

2019

Biblioteka Regionalisty

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The progressive urbanism and population density of the modern world, along with the degradation of the natural environment, have caused a radical disappearance of vacant urban spaces. For this reason the importance of undeveloped, open spaces located in urban areas has increased. The development potential of empty spaces should be reasonably assessed, and thereby their use should be considered − as an element of compact urban fabric or a reserve of space for the future. The goal of the article is to discuss and evaluate the role of empty areas in cities in terms of economic, social and environmental impacts, as well as to provide a universal toolset in the field of spatial planning that can be utilized to secure the value, and maintain control over the management of empty spaces. The object of the study is Wroclaw with particular emphasis on undeveloped urban land. The research covered, depending on the available data, the period 2010-2018. The work uses a deductive method, simple statistical methods, results of research carried out so far and a reinterpretation of available scientific literature. The article is an introduction to considerations on the impact of empty urban spaces on the socioeconomic development of modern cities.

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Urban vacant land typology: A tool for managing urban vacant land

Cited by 92 publications

References 13 publications

Assessing the Ecosystem Services of Various Types of Urban Green Spaces Based on i-Tree Eco

Assessing the Ecosystem Services of Various Types of Urban Green Spaces Based on i-Tree Eco

Integrated Land-Use Zoning, Using Topographical Data: Optimizing Vacant Space for Urbanization at Akole Taluka, Maharashtra, India

The importance of empty spaces in cities and a proposed set of tools to support their use

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