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Abdulmueen Bogis; Dean Bork; Patrick Miller. Are green infrastructure strategies suitable in arid climates? a design feasibility study from Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Architecture and Planning 2021, 1, 1 .
AMA StyleAbdulmueen Bogis, Dean Bork, Patrick Miller. Are green infrastructure strategies suitable in arid climates? a design feasibility study from Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Architecture and Planning. 2021; 1 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbdulmueen Bogis; Dean Bork; Patrick Miller. 2021. "Are green infrastructure strategies suitable in arid climates? a design feasibility study from Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia." International Journal of Architecture and Planning 1, no. 1: 1.
The objective of this study is to investigate elevated parks as urban green spaces using social media data analytics. Two popular elevated parks, the High Line Park in New York and the 606 in Chicago, were selected as the study sites. Tweets mentioning the two parks were collected from 2015 to 2019. By using text mining, social media users’ sentiments and conveyed perceptions about the elevated parks were studied. In addition, users’ activities and their satisfaction were analyzed. For the 606, users mainly enjoyed the free events at the park and worried about possible increases in housing prices and taxes because of the 606. They tended to participate in physical activities such as biking and walking. Although the 606 provides scenic observation points, users did not seem to enjoy these. Regarding the High Line, users frequently mentioned New York City, which is an important aspect of the identity of the park. The High Line users also frequently mentioned arts and relaxation. Overall, this study supports the idea that social media analytics can be used to gain an understanding of the public’s use of urban green spaces and their attitudes and concerns.
Jisoo Sim; Patrick Miller; Samarth Swarup. Tweeting the High Line Life: A Social Media Lens on Urban Green Spaces. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8895 .
AMA StyleJisoo Sim, Patrick Miller, Samarth Swarup. Tweeting the High Line Life: A Social Media Lens on Urban Green Spaces. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):8895.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJisoo Sim; Patrick Miller; Samarth Swarup. 2020. "Tweeting the High Line Life: A Social Media Lens on Urban Green Spaces." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 8895.
Many cities have replaced abandoned transportation infrastructure with an elevated park to gain increased economic benefits by developing old fabric. By following this trend, most studies to this point have only focused on the economic rewards from the replacement rather than its uses in the real world. This study aims to understand how park visitors use elevated parks through a park visitors’ survey. The authors selected three representative elevated parks—the High Line in New York City, the 606 in Chicago, and the High Bridge in Farmville—for the study and asked visitors about their activities, perceived benefits, and satisfaction. Results indicate that the 606, a mixed-use elevated park, allows visitors to engage in high-intensity activity, the High Line as an elevated urban park provides visitors public arts and gardens, and the High Bridge as an elevated green park provided visitors with a connection to unique natural scenery. This study, as the first to compare three different elevated parks, contributes to an understanding of who uses elevated parks and how they use elevated parks.
Jisoo Sim; Cermetrius Lynell Bohannon; Patrick Miller. What Park Visitors Survey Tells Us: Comparing Three Elevated Parks—The High Line, 606, and High Bridge. Sustainability 2019, 12, 121 .
AMA StyleJisoo Sim, Cermetrius Lynell Bohannon, Patrick Miller. What Park Visitors Survey Tells Us: Comparing Three Elevated Parks—The High Line, 606, and High Bridge. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):121.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJisoo Sim; Cermetrius Lynell Bohannon; Patrick Miller. 2019. "What Park Visitors Survey Tells Us: Comparing Three Elevated Parks—The High Line, 606, and High Bridge." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 121.
To meet the needs of park users, planners and designers must know what park users want to do and how they want the park to offer different activities. Big data may help planners and designers gain this knowledge. This study examines how big data collected in an urban park could be used to identify meaningful implications for planning and design. While big data have emerged as a new data source, big data have not become an accepted source of data due to a lack of understanding of big data analytics. By comparing a survey as a traditional data source with big data, this study identifies the strengths and weaknesses of using big data analytics in park planning and design. There are two research questions: (1) what activities do park users want; and (2) how satisfied are users with different activities. The Gyeongui Line Forest Park, which was built on an abandoned railway, was selected as the study site. A total of 177 responses were collected through the onsite survey, and 3703 tweets mentioning the park were collected from Twitter. Results from the survey show that ordinary activities such as walking and taking a rest in the park were the most common. These findings also support existing studies. The results from social media analytics found notable things such as positive tweets about how the railway was turned into a park, and negative tweets about diseases that may occur in the park. Therefore, a survey as traditional data and social media analytics as big data can be complementary methods for the design and planning process.
Jisoo Sim; Patrick Miller. Understanding an Urban Park through Big Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 3816 .
AMA StyleJisoo Sim, Patrick Miller. Understanding an Urban Park through Big Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (20):3816.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJisoo Sim; Patrick Miller. 2019. "Understanding an Urban Park through Big Data." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 20: 3816.
This paper describes the feasibility and probable benefits associated with greening the Tahliah Channel, a concrete drainage channel that was originally built to relieve urban flooding in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. It includes an estimation of irrigation needs for channel greening based on a standardized planting specification. The study also demonstrates alternative strategies for meeting the required irrigation demand, including water harvesting and graywater reuse on a residential scale. The study shows that greening Tahliah Channel is possible relying mainly on graywater reuse from the surrounding buildings. Also, the study shows that rainwater harvesting is not a reliable source for irrigation. Rather, it can cover only part of the irrigation needs (6%) and so can be used as a secondary supporting source. The positive results of this case study will be of interest to those in arid countries who are looking to upgrade and replace traditional, single function drainage infrastructure with more sustainable, green infrastructure systems. More specifically, the objectives of the study are consistent with the goals of the Saudi government’s ongoing initiative that advocates for more resilient and sustainable cities. (Vision 2030 year).
Abdulmueen Bogis; Dean Bork; Patrick Miller. Are Green Infrastructure Strategies Suitable in Arid Climates? A Design Feasibility Study from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleAbdulmueen Bogis, Dean Bork, Patrick Miller. Are Green Infrastructure Strategies Suitable in Arid Climates? A Design Feasibility Study from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. . 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbdulmueen Bogis; Dean Bork; Patrick Miller. 2018. "Are Green Infrastructure Strategies Suitable in Arid Climates? A Design Feasibility Study from Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia." , no. : 1.
Using the City of Roanoke, Virginia as a study site, this paper quantifies the forest structure, ecosystem services and values of vacant and residential land. Single family residential land had more trees (1,683,000) than vacant land (210,000) due largely to the differences in land area (32.44 km2 of vacant land vs. 57.94 km2 residential). While the percentage of tree coverage was almost identical across land uses (30.6% in vacant to 32.3% in residential), the number of trees per ha is greater on residential land (290.3) than on vacant land (63.4). The average healthy leaf surface area on individual trees growing on vacant land was greater than that of individual trees on residential land. The fact that trees in vacant land were found to provide more ecosystem services per tree than residential trees was attributed to this leaf area difference. Trees on vacant land are growing in more natural conditions and there are more large trees per ha. Assessing the forest structure and ecosystem services of Roanoke’s vacant and residential land provides a picture of the current extent and condition of the vacant and residential land. Understanding these characteristics provides the information needed for improved management and utilization of urban vacant land and estimating green infrastructure value.
Gunwoo Kim; Patrick Miller; David Nowak. The Value of Green Infrastructure on Vacant and Residential Land in Roanoke, Virginia. Sustainability 2016, 8, 296 .
AMA StyleGunwoo Kim, Patrick Miller, David Nowak. The Value of Green Infrastructure on Vacant and Residential Land in Roanoke, Virginia. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (4):296.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGunwoo Kim; Patrick Miller; David Nowak. 2016. "The Value of Green Infrastructure on Vacant and Residential Land in Roanoke, Virginia." Sustainability 8, no. 4: 296.