Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening is 14. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review154
Multi-level barriers and opportunities for urban greening and depaving initiatives as climate change adaptation measures: Quebec City case study148
UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads109
Parks Please! Implementing the 3–30-300 green space rule in developing countries − The case of Surakarta, Indonesia87
Machine learning-based prediction of tree crown development in competitive urban environments84
Branching Out: The under examined role of urban tree giveaway programs and urban greening in Florida83
Identifying causal changes in landscape greenness with very high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery and a panel data model80
Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy)79
Editorial Board76
The advantage of mobile technologies in crowdsourcing landscape preferences: Testing a mobile app to inform planning decisions75
Urban greenery distribution and its link to social vulnerability73
The role of greenspace deprivation in children’s decision-making73
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests71
Spatio-temporal monitoring of urban street-side vegetation greenery using Baidu Street View images71
Bridging the land use gap: Examining tree canopy cover and connectivity by land use in 10 U.S. cities69
A generative optimization framework for pocket parks supported by mature plant carbon sequestration data69
Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010–201768
New morphological features for urban tree species identification using LiDAR point clouds68
Urban green space preferences for various health-related psychological benefits of adolescent pupils, university students and adults67
Vegetation complexity and greenspace diversity in urban schools67
Visible greenery as my resource? The connection between passive green space exposure and relative deprivation from a self-determination perspective65
Forest type and stand structure influence soil microbial network composition and stability in urban forests: Insights from Beijing, China65
Urbanization weakens mutualisms without affecting antagonisms of a hawkmoth-pollinated plant species63
The influence of greening management and landscape patterns on plant diversity in urban green spaces in Danzhou, China62
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use61
Eight recommendations to improve the reporting of qualitative social research in urban nature studies60
Assessing tree canopy cooling efficiency in different local climate zones: A cost-benefit analysis59
Structure of an urban green space indirectly affects the distribution of airborne particulate matter: A study based on structural equation modelling59
An approach to prioritize urban tree planting to mitigate heat and advance equity in New Haven59
City walk or nature walk? Evidence-based psychological and physiological outcomes – A systematic review and meta-analysis58
Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity57
A three-layer evapotranspiration model considering the vertical structure of urban green spaces57
Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes57
Renaturing cities: from utopias to contested realities and futures57
Does user-generated content increase the valuation of urban green space? Evidence from China56
Characteristics and influencing factors of taxonomic and functional diversity of butterflies in urban green spaces54
Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China54
Estimating aboveground biomass of tropical urban forests with UAV-borne hyperspectral and LiDAR data53
The relationship between urban green space and social health of individuals: A scoping review53
Small but powerful? The seasonal and diurnal cooling potential of urban green spaces in Munich, Germany, is moderated by size and vegetation complexity52
Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment51
Climate change threatens carbon storage in Europe’s urban trees51
Greening streets, gaining insights: Unpacking resident perceptions of urban greening49
Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters49
Coarse-to-fine segmentation of individual street trees from side-view point clouds49
Verifying an ENVI-met simulation of the thermal environment of Yanzhong Square Park in Shanghai49
Climate change-induced heat reduces urban green space use: Insights from mobile phone location big data49
Quasi-individual-level analysis of urban green space accessibility: Disparities, determinants, and equity across neighborhoods48
Sniff the urban park: Unveiling odor features and landscape effect on smellscape in Guangzhou, China48
A systematic review of the relationship between urban forest quality and socioeconomic status or race47
Dependence of urban park visits on thermal environment and air quality46
Editorial Board46
Review on the multi-scale interactions of urban forests and atmospheric particles: Affecting factors are scale-dependent among tree, stand and region46
The role of urban parks in affecting health outcomes and the differences between vulnerable groups: Evidence from the central city of Beijing46
Mental restorative effects of streetscape vegetation: Assessment of various design strategies using virtual environments45
Greenbelt's impact on urban forest habitat: Insights from morphological analysis in quantifying conservation effects45
Editorial Board45
Exploration of the functions and potentials of urban forest gardens in Sweden44
Mapping the urban landscape at multiple ecological scales44
Strategic planning to integrate urban agriculture in Palestinian urban development under conditions of political instability44
Urban soil respiration patterns: An analysis of Quercus robur vs. Quercus rubra in parks and streets of Karlsruhe, Germany43
Assessing accessibility and environmental equity in the context of sustained aging: Pathways for age-friendly urban park planning43
Relationship between visitor characteristics, physical activity levels and park environment in subtropical areas’ urban parks42
Potential of hyperspectral LiDAR in individual tree segmentation: A comparative study with multispectral LiDAR42
Spatially analysed expansion of individual street tree crowns enables species-specific crown expansion predictions in different rainfall zones42
Similar spaces, different usage : A comparative study on how residents in the capitals of Finland and Denmark use cemeteries as recreational landscapes42
How thermal conditions affect the spatial-temporal distribution of visitors in urban parks: A case study in Chongqing, China41
Research on the horizontal reduction effect of urban roadside green belt on atmospheric particulate matter in a semi-arid area41
Characterizing BVOC emissions of common plant species in northern China using real world measurements: Towards strategic species selection to minimize ozone forming potential of urban greening41
Bacterial communities are poorer at urban park entrances in Finland than Russian Tatarstan – Testing the core presumption of the biodiversity hypothesis40
Drone-based assessment of urban green space structure and cooling capacity40
Unravelling leaf hydraulic responses to urbanization and the coordination with economic strategies of subtropical urban forests40
Average height of surrounding buildings and district age are the main predictors of tree failure on the streets of São Paulo/Brazil39
Exploring preferences for biodiversity and wild parks in Chinese cities: A conjoint analysis study in Hangzhou39
Is biodiversity of greenspace important for human health and wellbeing? A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review39
Optimizing urban green space patterns to improve spatial equity using location-allocation model: A case study in Wuhan39
Increasing demand for urban community gardening before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic39
Exploring climate-adaptive green-space designs for hot and humid climates: Lessons from Japanese dry gardens39
The influence of neighborhood competition on the morphological traits of urban individual tree landscape in Beijing39
How good is your basket of parks? A combined index of park quality and accessibility for youth39
The pathways linking green spaces to reduced climate change anxiety39
Establishing a "dynamic two-step floating catchment area method" to assess the accessibility of urban green space in Shenyang based on dynamic population data and multiple modes of transportation37
Impact of blue spaces on the urban microclimate in different climate zones, daytimes and seasons – A systematic review37
Enhancing bird conservation in tropical urban parks through land sparing and sharing strategies: Evidence from occupancy data37
Strategic greening: A multidimensional framework for balancing supply, demand, and cost in urban park allocation37
The importance of university campuses for the avian diversity of cities37
Blue-green infrastructure and biodiversity: Urbanization and forestation have an important influence on bird diversity in water habitats37
Remote sensing of urban greenspace exposure and equality: Scaling effects from greenspace and population mapping37
The nose cooperates with the eyes: The independent and interactive effects of vision and olfaction on the perceived restorativeness of a Metasequoia walkway36
The influence of plant morphological structure characteristics on PM2.5 retention of leaves under different wind speeds36
Integrating landscape ecology in urban green infrastructure planning: A multi-scale approach for sustainable development36
Landscape and soundscape quality promote stress recovery in nearby urban nature: A multisensory field experiment36
Carbon sinks in urban public green spaces under carbon neutrality: A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review36
Exploring the association between campus environment of higher education and student health: A systematic review of findings and measures36
Seasonal variation in chlorophyll fluorescence of mosses under urban heat islands in Japanese gardens36
Forest growth dynamics can be revealed using dual-temporal Terrestrial Laser Scanning — A case from plantation forests in northeastern China36
Editorial Board35
“Unfenced” parks and residents’ visit patterns: A regression discontinuity design in Shanghai35
Improving urban tree species classification by deep-learning based fusion of digital aerial images and LiDAR35
To exclude or not to exclude? The effect of protest responses on the economic value of an iconic urban heritage tree35
Editorial Board35
Modeling the spatial distribution of the current and future ecosystem services of urban tree planting in Chicopee and Fall River, Massachusetts35
Incorporating pruning into the carbon footprint of tree production based on terrestrial laser scanning35
Advancing urban forest and ecosystem service assessment through the integration of remote sensing and i-Tree Eco: A systematic review35
Evaluating the risk of accessing green spaces in COVID-19 pandemic: A model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London34
Estimating and projecting the effects of urbanization on the forest habitat quality in a highly urbanized area34
Detecting patches of invasive shrubs using high-density airborne LiDAR data and spectral imagery34
Editorial Board34
Quantification of the environmental effectiveness of nature-based solutions for increasing the resilience of cities under climate change33
Stakeholder perceptions of the socio-ecological role of nature-based solutions in the Les Glòries Park, Barcelona33
Inequalities in residential nature and nature-based recreation are not universal: A country-level analysis in Austria33
“A living street and not just green”: Exploring public preferences and concerns regarding nature-based solution implementation in urban streetscapes33
Valuation of urban nature-based solutions in Latin American and European cities33
Beating around the bush: A scoping review of trade-offs for just planning and governance of urban nature-based solutions32
Validity of online street view imagery in urban studies: Evidence from on-site mobile acquisition32
Planning for cooler cities: A multimodal AI framework for hyperlocal spatio-temporal urban heat stress prediction and mitigation32
Tree and shrub instance segmentation by boundary-aware ecological structural probability analysis32
Efficient cooling of cities at global scale using urban green space to mitigate urban heat island effects in different climatic regions32
Editorial Board32
Urban parks, value uplift and green gentrification: An application of the spatial hedonic model in the city of Brisbane32
The association between plant diversity and perceived emotions for visitors in urban forests: A pilot study across 49 parks in China32
Effects of urban green space types and historical Land Use/ Land Cover on soil health: Implications for sustainable management32
Urban tree canopies drive human heat stress mitigation32
A new approach to monitor the life cycle of urban street tree canopies31
Urban green space disparities: Implications of environmental injustice for public health31
Economic value of the hot-day cooling provided by urban green and blue space31
Auditing an urban park deck with 3D geovisualization—A comparison of in-situ and VR walk-along interviews30
Effects of blue space exposure in urban and natural environments on psychological and physiological responses: A within-subject experiment30
Greening urban landscapes: A systematic literature review of planting design for resilient and livable cities30
First report of the occurrence of Phytophthora honggalleglyana in an urban green space in Poland30
Exploring Floridians' perceptions of pollinator-friendly gardening to identify critical adoption barriers and strategies29
Urbanization-induced vegetation phenological changes: Variability across vegetation types and zones in China29
Multiple ecosystem services of informal green spaces: A literature review29
Does perceived biophilic design contribute to human well-being in urban green spaces? A study of perceived naturalness, biodiversity, perceived restorativeness, and subjective vitality29
Evaluating the therapeutic qualities of community parks: An elderly-centric perspective29
Climate drivers of dieback in Mediterranean urban pine forests29
The value of pocket parks in preserving urban butterfly diversity29
Assessing distributional justice around Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) provided by urban green areas: The case of Bologna29
Road traffic noise annoyance mitigation by green window view: Optimizing green quantity and quality29
Urban Green infrastructures: How much did they affect property prices in Singapore?28
Modelling the optimal green roof type for carbon capture in an urbanised university campus28
Inequities in urban tree care based on socioeconomic status28
Urban forest biotope mapping: A new approach for sustainable forest management planning in Mexico City28
Using a socially-engaged arts approach to exploring how diverse socio-cultural groups accessed, valued, engaged with and benefited from an urban treescape during the COVID-19 Pandemic28
Association between urban greenspace, tree canopy cover and intentional deaths: An exploratory geospatial analysis28
Consistent generalization of plant-hummingbird networks despite increasing vegetation cover across a tropical urban landscape28
Citizens’ use of public urban green spaces at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy27
Engagement in sustainable horticulture is associated with greater perceived health benefits amongst gardeners27
Assessment of joint soil ecosystem services supply in urban green spaces: A case study in Northern Italy27
Urban green space classification using Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) and LiDAR fusion: Accuracy evaluation and landscape metrics assessment27
Corrigendum to “Species and season affect response of container-grown shade trees to pre-plant root modifications” [Urban For. Urban Greening 63 (2021) 127184]27
Sustainability in urban agriculture: The role of biochar in enhancing the productive capacity of compost-based growing media for rooftop farming27
Loss of street trees predicted to cause 6000 L/tree increase in leaf-on stormwater runoff for Great Lakes urban sewershed27
Land use-based stakeholders mapping for natural heritage preservation – Case study: Hampstead Heath Ponds, London27
Urban epiphytes: Bromeliad diversity in a green cover gradient across a Neotropical streetscape27
Evaluating naturalness and functioning of urban green infrastructure27
One size does not fit all: The complex relationship between biodiversity and psychological well-being27
Anthropogenic factors explain urban plant diversity across three tropical cities in China27
Two-step carbon storage estimation in urban human settlements using airborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 data based on machine learning27
Effects of pavements on diversity and activity of mycorrhizal symbionts associated with urban trees27
Phenological description of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle using the BBCH-scale: Groundwork for developing strategies to control invasive species and mitigate potential allergy risks27
Social licence to eradicate invasive pests of trees in urban landscapes: A review to prepare for the next incursion26
Values and beliefs about urban forests from diverse urban contexts and populations in the Greater Toronto area26
Stakeholder entanglements around diversifying schoolyards in Brussels and Barcelona26
Overwintering in a megacity: Urban green areas and migratory birds in Mexico City26
Public attitudes to urban trees in Great Britain in the early 2020s26
Assessment of green space benefits and burdens for urban health with spatial modeling26
Significant carbon storage and sequestration by urban greenery in Beijing city during 2010–202026
Development of an artificial intelligence model for CFD data augmentation and improvement of thermal environment in urban areas using nature-based solutions26
Does street canyon morphology shape particulate matter reduction capacity by street trees in real urban environments?26
Spatial distribution, determinants, and implementation barriers of green-blue-grey infrastructure-based urban heat island mitigation strategies in Budapest, Hungary26
Explorations on cooling effect of small urban linear park design in low-rise, high-density district: The case of Gyeongui line forest park in Seoul26
Editorial Board25
Park features that encourage park visitation among older adults: A qualitative study25
The boreal soil microbiome of different urban green spaces – Do city residents meet different microbes?25
The protection of ash trees against ash dieback by tree injections25
Assessing urban greenery by harvesting street view data: A review25
Study on smellscape perception and landscape application of fragrant plants25
Urban vegetation productivity under climate change and increasing urbanization: Insights from both urban-rural comparison and trend analysis for global cities25
Green relief: An exploration into the restorative effects of urban green spaces on eyestrain25
How does enclosed private residential green space impact accessibility equity in urban regions? A case study in Shenzhen, China25
Nature for the people, by the people: Negotiating values, attitudes and behaviours for implementing urban nature-based solutions in social housing24
Relationships between urbanization, tree morphology, and carbon density: An integration of remote sensing, allometric models, and field survey24
Urban trees through a functional traits’ lens: Exploring the interplay between tree functional groups and social-ecological factors24
Rethinking the traditional American lawn: Perspectives of U.S. households in a nationwide survey24
Investigating ecological emotion differences in urban waterlogged forests: The role of blue-green space exposure24
Estimating aboveground carbon stocks of urban trees by synergizing ICESat-2 LiDAR with GF-2 data24
The personality traits of agreeableness: hindrance or aid to restorative forest experiences?24
Global urban green spaces in the functional urban areas: Spatial pattern, drivers and size hierarchy24
Spatiotemporal analysis of interactions between building configuration and urban green space on outdoor air temperature during heat waves: IoT sensor-based insights from Seoul, South Korea24
Modelling the environmental implications of phytoremediation in urban settings: A review of the integration of life cycle assessment and ecosystem services approaches24
Nitrogen enrichment decrease green roof multifunctionality24
Remote sensing for the assessment of ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation: A review of the methods applied24
Well-being of park users in a tropical city may be more influenced by their nature connectedness and exposure than bird diversity24
Associations between green space, air pollution and birthweight in Sydney Metropolitan Area, Australia24
Urban green spaces and variation in cooling in the humid tropics: The case of Paramaribo23
Neighbourhood green space and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults: Evidence from WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health in China23
Spatial and temporal dynamics of the leaf area index (LAI) of selected tree species in urban environments23
Interactive mapping of allergenic urban street trees in Australia23
Enhancing the carbon sequestration potential of urban green space: A water–energy–carbon fluxes perspective23
Woody plant biodiversity explains arthropod pest management interventions in residential landscapes23
The relationships between an historic neighborhood classification grade and tree canopy and impervious surface in Washington, DC, USA23
Exploring the paradox of densification and greening in China’ s old cities23
The aesthetic value of natural vegetation remnants, city parks and vacant lots: The role of ecosystem features and observer characteristics23
Artificial developed habitats can sustain plant communities similar to remnant ecosystems in the Tokyo megacity23
From private yards to public benefits: How human dimensions shape the urban forest in a small city23
People with the least positive attitudes to green exercise derive most anxiolytic benefit from walking in green space23
Urban environment and green spaces as factors influencing sedentary behaviour in school-aged children23
Lawn management promoting tall herbs, flowering species and urban park attributes enhance insect biodiversity in urban green areas23
The effects of tree planting on allergenic pollen production in New York City23
Combining the preferences of residents for neighborhood green spaces and conservation of avian diversity: Case study from Beijing23
Biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission profiles from native Atlantic Forest trees: Seasonal variation and atmospheric implications in southeastern Brazil23
Effects of designed species diversity on community resilience to weed invasion23
“Restorative-Repressive” perception on post-industrial parks based on artificial and natural scenarios: Difference and mediating effect23
The uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) in measuring people’s exposure to green space using the integrated 3S approach22
Recognitional and distributive justice in urban park access: The importance of subjective views22
Towards a greening city: How does regional cooperation promote urban green space in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area?22
Resistance of urban trees to drought shaped by family and site in a semi-arid city22
The effects of urban greenway environment on recreational activities in tropical high-density Singapore: A computer vision approach22
Numerical simulation of the nocturnal cooling effect of urban trees considering the leaf area density distribution22
Stakeholder exposure to and knowledge of tree pests and diseases and their management in urban areas22
Relevant landscape components in a large urban green space in Oporto (Portugal)21
Values of urban greening – Voices of residents on highly intensive densification (HID) in a Swedish case study21
Crown structure, growth, and drought tolerance of true service tree (Sorbus domestica L.) in forests and urban environments21
Science fiction blockbuster movies – A problem or a path to urban greenery?21
How does Blue-Green Infrastructure affect the urban thermal environment across various functional zones?21
Elevating street trees to infrastructure status: A comparison of street tree spacing guidelines in Los Angeles with U.S. peer cities21
Analysing urban trees on verges and slopes along a highway using machine learning methods21
Perceptions of Detroit vacant lot greening designs related to depressive symptoms and household flooding21
The impact and future of edible landscapes on sustainable urban development: A systematic review of the literature21
Editorial: Green infrastructure: Evolution and current state21
Urbanization increases the range, but not the depth, of forest edge influences on Pinus sylvestris bark pH21
Adolescent visit patterns of urban green spaces and socio-demographic variations in a large high-density city21
Effects of moderate drought on particles retention and physiology of three evergreen shrubs20
Effects of urban greenspaces on public health and wellbeing: Serial mediation model of objective and subjective measures20
A nation-wide urban trial network of tree and shrub climate resilience20
Urban forest management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A policy policy Arrangement Approach20
Exploring trust and communication between insurers, arborists, and homeowners20
Public satisfaction with urban trees and their management in Australia: The roles of values, beliefs, knowledge, and trust20
Estimating aboveground volume of diverse urban tree species: Developing allometric equations for higher taxonomic levels20
Assessing changes in urban vegetation using Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for epidemiological studies20
A bibliometric review of urban sprawl and urban green spaces research, 1996–202420
Urbanisation and specifically impervious cover alter riparian plant communities in a rapidly urbanising landscape in the Himalayas20
Demand-side effects of urban green spaces: How attractiveness helps overcome subjective barriers to health behaviours20
A methodological framework to create an urban greenway network promoting avian connectivity: A case study of Curitiba City20
Supporting decision-making for nature recovery through urban development – A map of sustainable spatial development tools20
Urban park attributes as predictors for the diversity and composition of spontaneous plants − A case in Beijing, China20
Exploring recreational walking and its correlated built environment factors in river corridor space through a trajectory sematic-based approach19
Locally contextualized psycho-physiological wellbeing effects of environmental exposures: An experimental-based evidence19
Particle resuspension from leaf surfaces: Effect of species, leaf traits and wind speed19
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