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Latin American immigrants in urban nature: Exploring mental health and belonging through walking interviews

Urbanization is linked to mental health challenges, while urban nature is increasingly recognized for its restorative benefits. Yet, access to these benefits remains unequal. Latin American (LA) immigrants—a small but growing population in Canadian cities—may face distinct barriers to engaging with natural spaces, despite often relying on public resources for mental health and belonging. This […]

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Hot stops, cool looks: Aesthetic solutions for thermal comfort at transit stops

Increased urban heat intensifies thermal discomfort, particularly in critical public spaces such as transit stops. This study investigated the predictors of transit users’ thermal perceptions in Denver, Colorado—a semi-arid city. Sixty bus stops spanning a gradient of land cover compositions were selected for study. Micrometeorological data, including thermal comfort indices, were collected alongside survey responses

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Pathways towards equity: Solutions-focused workshops with urban greening professionals

Urban green governance refers to the complex network of actors working across sectors to manage urban vegetation. While recent research has identified barriers to addressing green space inequities, there has been much less focus on how these barriers interact as self-reinforcing systems or on potential solutions. This study explores how urban greening professionals understand and

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Urban tree cover targets: The good, the bad and the SMART

Urban tree cover (UTC) is a commonly used metric in policy and management activities, including urban forest resources assessment, equity and distribution, and ecosystem services modelling. Despite the well-established benefits associated with urban tree canopy, declining tree cover has catalysed many cities into setting UTC targets. In this short communication, we used an assessment of

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The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods

Green gentrification describes how greening neighbourhoods (e.g. by creating parks, community gardens, etc.) can result in higher-income households moving in and displacing/excluding marginalised residents. While some researchers assert that greening attracts higher-income households, this has rarely been empirically tested. Further, green gentrification research has focussed almost exclusively on greening attracting households to urban neighbourhoods, despite

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One tree matters: reflections on data as a design material in urban forestry

This exploratory study explores the potential contexts and opportunities for emerging visual data in urban forest design. Forestry experts deploy drone-mounted digital sensors to capture detailed visual and spatial data urban vegetation. These sensors generate point clouds that not only inform ecological analysis but also visually construct urban environments from a pedestrian perspective. Even though

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Enhancing the structure of feedback forms increases trustworthiness and usefulness of peer feedback

Peer feedback is commonly used in higher education for both practical and pedagogical reasons. However, peer feedback has been criticized by teachers, researchers, and students for being superficial, harsh, uncritical, and/or detached from learning objectives. This study contributes to the existing literature on how to enhance the effectiveness of peer feedback by examining the impact

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Sustainability gentrification and implications for health

This chapter aims to present the current scientific findings concerning the potential associations between sustainability gentrification and population health. To do so, this chapter starts by describing the related and sub-types of eco-, ecological, environmental, resilience, climate, green, and green climate gentrification. Then, delves into examining the prevalence of sustainability gentrification within and between municipalities,

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Literature review of human interactions with urban nature and their mental health associations

This review explores the mental health benefits of human-nature interactions in urban areas. Considering increasing mental health concerns in cities, nature offers a widely available intervention to enhance well-being across diverse populations. We conceptualize nature interactions as behavior that occurs in/relates to a natural environment within a certain time frame, and examine associated mental health

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What is equitable urban forest governance? A systematic literature review

Urban forest governance comprises the formal and informal rules, institutions, and processes that influence collective decision-making in urban forest management. As such, it shapes key processes and outcomes that are implicated in urban environmental justice, including whose priorities and values are reflected in urban forest management and how and where urban trees are distributed. However,

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