Societal Impact Statement Trees play a critical role for people and the planet. Numerous
studies have demonstrated that the presence of trees and urban nature can improve …

Background In a rapidly urbanizing world, many people have little contact with natural
environments, which may affect health and well-being. Existing reviews generally conclude …

Houses with better street design are found to relate to a price premium. Prior studies mainly
present the street quality using objective indicators like tree counts and distance to parks …

Currently half the world population lives in cities, and this proportion is expected to increase
rapidly to 70% over the next years. Over the years, we have created large, mostly grey cities …

Green space is now widely viewed as a health-promoting characteristic of residential
environments, and has been linked to mental health benefits such as recovery from mental …

Street trees are an integral element of urban life. They provide a vast range of benefits in
residential and commercial precincts, and they support healthy communities by providing …

Urban trees can potentially mitigate environmental degradation accompanying rapid
urbanisation via a range of tree benefits and services. But uncertainty exists about the extent …

With the majority of the world's human population now living in cities, urban forests provide
an increasingly important range of ecosystem services, from improved air quality and climate …

Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However,
scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be disproportionately low in poor and minority …

Extensive urbanization leads to the degradation of vegetation, which aggravates the
deterioration of many ecological environments. However, the research on the impact of …