Biodiversity hypothesis states that contact with natural environments enriches the human
microbiome, promotes immune balance and protects from allergy and inflammatory …

Land use optimization is a promising approach to achieve urban sustainability. Despite the
increasing number of literature on land use optimization, a little investigation is made to …

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to
human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed to explore how social …

The world has experienced dramatic urbanization in recent decades. However, we still lack
information about the characteristics of urbanization in large cities throughout the world …

Rapid urbanization and the lack of green infrastructure threaten the health of urban dwellers.
Green façades have been proposed as a green infrastructure solution to compensate for the …

Due to the unexpected emergence of COVID-19, different cities improvised responses to
prevent the virus from spreading and infecting the population. Madrid, capital of Spain and …

Urban green space (UGS) is although play a vital role in the mitigation of negative impacts of
urbanization, but it often abominably affected by the process of land-use land-cover (LULC) …

Urban activities are an important driver of ecosystem services decline. Sustainable
urbanisation necessitates anticipating and mitigating these negative socio-ecological …

Urban and peri-urban forests provide multiple ecosystem services for city dwellers, including
water, opportunities for recreation and tourism, climate regulation and habitat provision …

Urban and peri-urban agriculture can have negative effects (ie, ecosystem disservices) to
the city ecosystem. In the last two decades, urbanists and landscape planners have …