Spatial Variation of Urban Thermal Environment and Its Relation to Green Space Patterns: Implication to Sustainable Landscape Planning

The rapid changes of land covers in urban areas are one of major environmental concerns because of their environmental impacts. Such land cover changes include the transformation of green space to impervious surface, and the increase of land surface temperature (LST). The objective of this study was...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhijie Wu, Yixin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/7/2249