Asian mega-cities have realized explosive growth in the post-war decades. Such growth,
however, resulted in serious environmental problems including air and water pollution and a …

The paper examines the evolution, implementation and performance of the green belt in the
compact and land-hungry city of Hong Kong. The green belt in Hong Kong comprises over …

Urban greenspaces are universally valued as amenity-recreation venues, wildlife refuges
and essential livable-city ingredients. Western strategies of urban greenspace provision are …

The lack of interaction between ecological science and landscape practice has directly
contributed to the many challenges related to the unprecedented urbanization of China …

Asian mega cities have experienced rapid population growth and continue to grow.
Urbanization in those areas is proceeding differently from the patterns of city growth …

Hong Kong has developed an ultra-dense urban form dominated by buildings and roads
with inadequate urban greenspace (UGS). Analyzing the fundamental constraints to UGS …

A number of societal changes such as an ageing population and a lack of economic
prosperity mean that Japanese greenway planners will be faced with a number of new …

Greenways have played a significant role in the development of urban areas in Canada over
the past 40 years. This paper presents case studies of urban greenway systems located in …

Human population growth and urbanization are two dominant demographic trends in our
time (Brown, 2001). World population has continued to grow exponentially for the past …

Less developed countries have experienced an unprecedented growth of urbanisation: by
1990, 61 percent of the world urban population lived in these developing nations and it is …