Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis141
Assessing the performance of centralized blue-green infrastructure in dynamic stormwater storage and runoff assignment120
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities113
Urbanization affects population connectivity, reproductive success and phenotypic traits in the Mediterranean cliff species Brassica incana (Brassicaceae)99
It’s not easy being cool: Residents’ perceived cooling ability in relation to different types of green infrastructure in their neighbourhood97
Impacts of 2D/3D building morphology on vegetation greening trends in Hong Kong: An urban-rural contrast perspective93
Two decades of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: Taking stock and looking forward90
Perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices in urban greenspaces: Insights from a shrinking city89
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces87
Global approaches for ecological restoration in urban environments: A PRISMA review85
Leveraging nature for just cities: Planning nature-based solutions in Greece78
How objective and subjective greenspace, combined with air and noise pollution, impacts mental health through the mediation of physical activity77
Urban coastal parks: What does the public want and what are the effects of priming and socio-demographic background?75
Morphological influence of sub-scale urban vegetation structures on canopy ventilation and scalar transport based on empirical mode decomposition73
Deciphering popular routes in urban parks: The impact of environmental factors on the amount, intensity and diversity of physical activity72
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis71
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China68
Impact of urban green spaces and maintenance regimes on flora and fauna diversity67
Hydric vegetation communities across rural, peri-urban, and urban zones within the Prairie Pothole Region65
Urban green spaces and stress during COVID-19 lockdown: A case study for the city of Madrid65
Malaysians’ perception on the contribution of urban green spaces to the UN sustainable development goals65
Book Review64
Nature at work: The effects of day-to-day nature contact on workers’ stress and psychological well-being64
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data64
Support for a new credential in urban forestry: Results from a survey of urban forest professionals63
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Bioreceptivity of living walls: Interactions between building materials and substrates, and effect on plant growth61
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Detection of unfavourable urban areas with higher temperatures and lack of green spaces using satellite imagery in sixteen Spanish cities59
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies59
Suitability of a single imager multispectral sensor for tree health analysis57
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Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model57
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Using big data to analyze how and why users value urban blue spaces in Spain55
Spatiotemporal fluctuations in urban park spatial vitality determined by on-site observation and behavior mapping: A case study of three parks in Zhengzhou City, China54
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on green space use in Turkey: Is closing green spaces for use a solution?54
Visitor mood, restorativeness and connectedness to nature across four unmanaged urban outdoor swimming sites of varying naturalness54
Tree species composition, growing space and management in Hong Kong’s commercial sky gardens53
Estimating the alignment of tree species composition with foraging practice in Philadelphia's urban forest: Toward a rapid assessment of provisioning services53
Urban transitions towards Nature-based Solutions52
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests52
Advancing social equity in urban tree planting: Lessons learned from an integrative review of the literature52
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)52
Book Review51
Assessing challenges and opportunities for schools’ access to nature in England51
Perceptions of stakeholders on nature-based solutions in urban planning: A thematic analysis in six European cities50
Exploring socio-ecological inequalities in heat by multiple and composite greenness metrics: A case study in Belfast, UK50
Urban forests as a strategy for transforming towards healthy cities49
Influence of urban-form and sociodemographic factors on street tree abundance transpire across scales in Houston, TX49
Urban forests’ recreation and habitat potentials in China: A nationwide synthesis49
Spatial preference heterogeneity in policies for improving urban green spaces49
Exploring the spatial potential of neglected or unmanaged blue spaces in the city of Warsaw, Poland48
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes48
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race48
The advantage of mobile technologies in crowdsourcing landscape preferences: Testing a mobile app to inform planning decisions47
Plant diversity on green roofs in the wild: Testing practitioner and ecological predictions in three midwestern (USA) cities47
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China47
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults47
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds47
Evaluating the quality of street trees in Washington, D.C.: Implications for environmental justice47
Can microbial inoculants boost soil food webs and vegetation development on newly constructed extensive green roofs?47
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability46
Comparison of UAV-based LiDAR and digital aerial photogrammetry for measuring crown-level canopy height in the urban environment46
Sensitivity analysis of isoprene and aerosol emission in a suburban plantation using long short-term memory model46
Assessing multiple dimensions of distributional justice: Access, biodiversity and landscape structure of green spaces for multiple social groups of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile46
Examining the role of business improvement districts (BIDs) as contemporary alternatives for Green Infrastructure funding in London, UK45
Monitoring of urban forests using 3D spatial indices based on LiDAR point clouds and voxel approach45
How to implement nature-based interventions in hospitals, long-term care facilities for elderly, and rehabilitation centers: A scoping review45
The equity of tree distribution in the most ruthlessly hot city in the United States: Phoenix, Arizona45
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures45
Renaturalisation and natural rewilding of the Manzanares river in Madrid, Spain: Mapping recreation potential and actual use44
How does urbanization affect the fauna of the largest urban forest in Mexico?44
The motivation and factors influencing visits to small urban parks in Shanghai, China43
Assessing the relationship between trait-based and horticultural classifications of plant responses to drought42
Changes in recreation use in response to urban heat differ between migrant and non-migrant green space users in Vienna, Austria42
Patchwork quilt: A methodology proposed for the study of historic gardens42
A comparison of global and regional open datasets for urban greenspace mapping42
Root adaptation of urban trees to a more precise irrigation system: Mature olive as a case study42
Vacant lot plant establishment techniques alter urban soil ecosystem services41
Providing contact with nature for young generation - A case study of preschools in the City of Poznań, Poland41
Urban forest fragmentation can highly influence pollinator-plant interactions in close contrasting habitats of a local herb, Ajuga decumbens (Labiatae)41
Monitoring canopy quality and improving equitable outcomes of urban tree planting using LiDAR and machine learning41
Is it sufficient? Assessment of two sampling methods for urban plant species richness investigations41
A framework of biophilic urbanism for improving climate change adaptability in urban environments41
Environmental and social benefits, and their coupling coordination in urban wetland parks41
Using robotics to detect footpath displacement caused by tree roots: A proof of concept41
Methodology for urban vegetation segmentation based on cartesian hue and saturation characteristics using UAV images41
Mental health in winter cities: The effect of vegetation on streets41
Native plant establishment on a custom modular living wall system in a humid subtropical climate40
Granivorous rodent loss poses greater threats to oak trees with large acorns than those with small ones in urban forests40
Risk of tick-borne zoonoses in urban green areas: A case study from Turin, northwestern Italy40
Contribution of park visits to daily physical activity levels among older adults: Evidence using GPS and accelerometery data40
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads40
Urban plant assemblages by land use type in Milan: Floristic, ecological and functional diversities and refugium role of railway areas40
More than green: Tree structure and biodiversity patterns differ across canopy change regimes in Baltimore’s urban forest39
Tokyo’s urban tree challenge: Decline in tree canopy cover in Tokyo from 2013 to 202239
Examining strain propagation in the branch unions of Quercus alba L. and Quercus montana Willd.39
Health clinic gardens as models for social-ecological systems: Floristic composition and potential utilization of plants in the Bojanala Platinum District North-West Province, South Africa38
A “magic teleportation machine”: Ethnically diverse green space users derive similar cultural ecosystem benefits from urban nature37
‘Letting my mind run wild’: Exploring the role of individual engagement in nature experiences36
Exploring geographical, curricular, and demographic factors of nature use by children in urban schoolyards in Raleigh, NC, USA36
Microhabitat coverage influences avian species composition more than habitat heterogeneity in Hong Kong urban parks36
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools36
New morphological features for urban tree species identification using LiDAR point clouds36
Maintenance, operational costs, and plant performance in three extensive green roof designs from Northwest México36
When does greener mean slimmer? Longitudinal analysis of green space, trees, grass, and body mass index in a cohort of 50,672 Australians: Exploring potential non-linearities and modifying influences 35
Nature-based solutions for changing urban landscapes: Lessons from Australia35
In the bleak mid-winter: The value of brownfield sites for birds during the winter35
The image recognition of urban greening tree species based on deep learning and CAMP-MKNet model35
The role of greenspace deprivation in children’s decision-making35
Predictors of street tree survival in Philadelphia: Tree traits, biophysical environment, and socioeconomic context34
Measuring the quality and accessibility of urban greenery using free data sources: A case study in Bratislava, Slovakia34
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment34
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region34
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality34
Modelling the spread of tree pests and pathogens in urban forests33
Utilizing LiDAR to quantify aboveground tree biomass within an urban university33
Occupancy and detectability of African crowned eagles in an urban mosaic landscape: The importance of natural forest areas33
Challenges for computer vision as a tool for screening urban trees through street-view images33
Informal natural greenspaces as places for urban leisure: Perspectives, uses and values from Quebec, Canada32
Modeling the cooling effect of urban green spaces: The neglected control variables of ‘soil moisture’ and ‘biotope types’32
Evaluating airborne, mobile and terrestrial laser scanning for urban tree inventories: A case study in Ghent, Belgium32
Field evaluation of the cotton-strip assay for quantifying decomposition rates in extensive green roof substrates32
Seasonal fluctuations of urban birds and their responses to immigration: An example from Macau, China32
Association between local airborne tree pollen composition and surrounding land cover across different spatial scales in Northern Belgium32
Christian eco-theology and urban climate adaptation in the Yorubaland, Nigeria31
Identity of a historic garden: The view of the international literature and committies on the role of the botanical elements31
Exploring the interplay of urban form and greenery in residents’ affective and cognitive responses31
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use31
Challenges and opportunities for Hawai‘i’s Exceptional Tree Program based on the lived experiences of urban forestry practitioners31
Is the grass greener or the water bluer? Drivers of local park visitation patterns in Phoenix, Arizona31
Sacred sites provide urban green spaces that maintain bird diversity in the megacity of Tokyo, Japan31
Residential heat environment in relation to blue-green space sustainability in Beijing, China31
Adolescents’ perceptions of park characteristics that discourage park visitation31
Understanding citizens' willingness to contribute to urban greening programs31
Insights from negative reviews in high-ratings, and the associations between park attributes: A case study in Park City, Chengdu31
The street tree distribution across a streetscape reflects the social inequality of Latin American cities30
Exploring the restorative capacity of urban green spaces and their biodiversity through an adapted One Health approach: A scoping review30
Adaptive shading: How microclimates and surface types amplify tree cooling effects?30
Formative audience research to increase consumer demand for professional wildlife-friendly landscape maintenance30
The interaction between human demand and urban greenspace supply for promoting positive emotions with sentiment analysis from twitter30
Study on the daily thermal radiation iso-disturbance on a building by trees in summer30
Rediscovering the amenity value of urban landscapes in the mountainous areas with high-rise buildings from the perspective of 3D vertical urban systems30
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments30
Does tree canopy moderate the association between neighborhood walkability and street crime?29
Spatial impacts of multimodal accessibility to green spaces on housing price in Cook County, Illinois29
Local and landscape features of wooded streets influenced bird taxonomic and functional diversity29
Why is dense vegetation in city parks unpopular? The mediative role of sense of privacy and safety29
COVID-19 and the importance of urban green spaces29
People’s preferences and perceptions toward low-input versus conventional park design approaches using 3D images and interview-based questionnaires29
Artificial lawns exhibit increased runoff and decreased water retention compared to living lawns following controlled rainfall experiments29
Quantification of thermal stress abatement by trees, its dependence on morphology and wind: A case study at Patna, Bihar, India29
Patterns and determinants of plant, butterfly and beetle diversity reveal optimal city grassland management and green urban planning29
Green wall plant tolerance to ambient urban air pollution28
Energy performance assessment on vertical greening systems with green roof in hot summer and cold winter regions based on long-term experimental data28
How do contextual factors mediate and moderate the association between green infrastructure and respiratory health? A systematic review and meta-analysis28
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces28
Corrigendum to “The moderating effects of mobile applications on the use of urban green space and mental health of older people: A mixed-method investigation in Hong Kong” [Urban Forestry & Urban 28
In situ psycho-cognitive assessments support self-determined urban green exercise time28
Reconstructing urban vegetation evolution in China using multimodal deep learning and 30-years Landsat archive28
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Interactions between management context and tree water use influence stormwater management potential of urban forests28
Emotional perceptions of people exposed to green and blue spaces in forest parks of cities at rapid urbanization regions of East China27
Indirect root distribution characterization using electrical resistivity tomography in different soil conditions27
The impact of landscape complexity on preference ratings and eye fixation of various urban green space settings27
Stress-resistant trees are more common in urban than rural forests: A case study of Cleveland, Ohio’s natural parks27
Phenological advance of blossoming over the past century in one of the world’s largest urban forests, Gauteng City-Region, South Africa27
Can parkland mitigate mental health burden imposed by the COVID-19? A national study in China27
Green roof cooling and carbon mitigation benefits in a subtropical city27
Associations between recent land use history and urban forest composition27
Pruning stormwater biofilter vegetation influences water quality improvement differently in Carex appressa and Ficinia nodosa27
Moving green infrastructure planning from theory to practice in sub-Saharan African cities requires collaborative operationalization27
Finding justice in wild, novel ecosystems: A review through a multispecies lens27
Envisioning the future—Creating sustainable, healthy and resilient BioCities27
Perception and preferred reuse of vegetated vacant lots along main streets in a shrinking city27
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) for low-input lawns in the Mediterranean environment26
Accessibility measurements for urban parks considering age-grouped walkers’ sectorial travel behavior and built environment26
Bridging landscape preference and landscape design: A study on the preference and optimal combination of landscape elements based on conjoint analysis26
Evaluating green resource branding using user-generated content data: The case study of a greenway in eastern Guangzhou, China26
Phytophthora nicotianae and Ph. mediterranea: A biosecurity threat to Platanus orientalis and P. x acerifolia in urban green areas in Greece26
Visitors’ perceptions of traditional homestead windbreaks from user-generated comments26
The multidimensionality of urban nature: The well-being and integration of immigrants in Finland26
Structure of an urban green space indirectly affects the distribution of airborne particulate matter: A study based on structural equation modelling26
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees26
Choosing the right nature-based solutions to meet diverse urban challenges26
How can forest fragments support protected areas connectivity in an urban landscape in Brazil?26
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing25
Where the wild things are: How urban foraging and food forests can contribute to sustainable cities in the Global North25
The effect of eye-level street greenness exposure on walking satisfaction: The mediating role of noise and PM2.525
Opportunities and constraints of implementing the 3–30–300 rule for urban greening25
Urban environment, drought events and climate change strongly affect the growth of common urban tree species in a temperate city25
Legacies of Urbanization and Suburbanization on Forest Patch Distribution, Ownership, and Use: Insights from Baltimore, Maryland25
Verifying an ENVI-met simulation of the thermal environment of Yanzhong Square Park in Shanghai25
Comparing green spaces provision and accessibility indicators over a latitudinal gradient and multiple climate zones25
Developing a mapping procedure for urban forests using online map services and Sentinel-2A images25
Reorienting urban green infrastructure planning towards biodiversity – Perspectives and ongoing debates from Germany25
Preference for multi-layered, flowering, woody streetscape plantings in a mediterranean-type climate25
Identifying Priority Heat-Risk Areas in Granada, Spain, Using InVEST and Landscape Metrics25
Evaluating the accessibility of urban parks and waterfronts through online map services: A case study of Shaoxing, China25
Comparing subjective and objective greenspace accessibility: Implications for real greenspace usage among adults24
River-city recreational interaction: A classification of urban riverfront parks and walks24
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China24
Best practices to use the iPad Pro LiDAR for some procedures of data acquisition in the urban forest24
Complex floral traits shape pollinator attraction to flowering plants in urban greenspaces24
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity24
Park and neighbourhood environmental characteristics associated with park-based physical activity among children in a high-density city24
Promoting wildflower biodiversity in dense and green cities: The important role of small vegetation patches24
How does urban green space feature influence physical activity diversity in high-density built environment? An on-site observational study24
Spatio-temporal analysis of the urban green infrastructure of the city of Granada (Spain) as a heat mitigation measure using high-resolution images Sentinel 324
Negotiating the green obstacle course: Ranking priorities and problems for municipal green infrastructure implementation24
Hybrid SWMM and particle swarm optimization model for urban runoff water quality control by using green infrastructures (LID-BMPs)24
Relationships between residents’ ratings of place attachment and the restorative potential of natural and urban park settings24
How do species richness and colour diversity of plants affect public perception, preference and sense of restoration in urban green spaces?24
Status, determinants and challenges of tree planting in Dodoma district, Tanzania24
Rethinking urban park accessibility in the context of demographic change: A population structure perspective24
Drivers of avian diversity in urban greenspaces in the Atlantic Forest24
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters23
Construction, assessment, and protection of green infrastructure networks from a dynamic perspective: A case study of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China23
The role of green space in Chicago’s gentrification23
Adding a mosaic mowing regime to urban lawns is the key to city biodiversity management for pollinators23
Restorative properties of green sheltered spaces and their morphological characteristics in urban parks23
Using geographical information systems to measure accessibility of green areas in the urban center of Nevşehir, Turkey23
Are social media data and survey data consistent in measuring park visitation, park satisfaction, and their influencing factors? A case study in Shanghai23
Spatial and habitat determinants of small-mammal biodiversity in urban green areas: Lessons for nature-based solutions22
Development of a system for assessing the quality of urban street-level greenery using street view images and deep learning22
Urban green spaces and sustainability: Exploring the ecosystem services and disservices of grassy lawns versus floral meadows22
Bug city life: Public acceptance of urban insect-friendly meadows in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland22
Long-term tree survival and diversity of highway tree planting projects22
Experimental investigation on vibration characteristics of sympodial tree22
Water consumption of felt-based outdoor living walls in warm climates22
Spatio-temporal monitoring of urban street-side vegetation greenery using Baidu Street View images22
Urban fruit orchards: Biodiversity and management restoration effects in the context of land use22
Wealth and land use drive the distribution of urban green space in the tropical coastal city of Haikou, China22
Fusion of multi-temporal PlanetScope data and very high-resolution aerial imagery for urban tree species mapping22
Perception study of urban green spaces in Singapore urban parks: Spatio-temporal evaluation and the relationship with land cover22
Assessing the consequences of tree failure22
The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review22
Using urban landscape pattern to understand and evaluate infectious disease risk22
Characteristics of residential backyards that contribute to conservation and diversity of urban birds: A case study in a Southeastern Brazilian city22
Collectively planting garden vegetation for biodiversity: Are hard surfaced gardens and householder unwillingness a constraint?22
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Species abundance as a determinant of aesthetic values of flowering plant communities21
Seasonal nitrogen and phosphorus leaching in urban agriculture: Dominance of non-growing season losses in a Southern Swedish case study21
Prioritization of green infrastructure planning principles using analytic hierarchy process: The case of Addis Ababa21
Blue-green infrastructure and biodiversity: Urbanization and forestation have an important influence on bird diversity in water habitats21
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