Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature

2024/05/28 by Eva Beele, Raf Aerts, Maarten Reyniers +1 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Environmental Science · #Urban Heat Island Mitigation #Urban Green Space and Health #Land Use and Ecosystem Services

paper · doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105121

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• Love Ben's enthusiasm for urban trees...they really do make an incredible difference to thermal comfort in our cities. Some cool research has recently come out of Belgium showing that tree type/config [bsky, 23 points, 4 comments]