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Proceedings of the conference on metropolitan physical environment
| Authors: | Gordon Heisler, Lee P. Herrington |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Type: | General Technical Report |
| Station: | Northern Research Station |
| Source: | Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-25. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-447 |
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Abstract
A report on the conference held in August 1975 at Syracuse, N.Y., containing 50 papers presented at the meeting, at which some 160 scientists and scholars discussed the use of vegetation, space, and structures to improve the amenities for people who live in metropolitan areas.Titles contained within Proceedings of the conference on metropolitan physical environment
- The conference
- Overview of urban climate
- Mesoscale features of urban rainfall enhancement
- The urban moisture climate
- Anthropogenic Moisture production and its effect on boundary-layer circulations over New York City
- Temporal and spatial variability of rainfall pH
- Effect of urbanization on the thermal structure in the atmosphere
- A preliminary investigation of the nocturnal temperature structure above the city of Edmonton, Alberta
- Surface air temperature in a maritime metropolitan region
- The urban heat island in Akron, Ohio
- Washington's "free" 300-station microscale weather network
- Structure of the microclimate at a woodland/parking-lot interface
- Outdoor comfort of pedestrians in cities
- Human thermal comfort in urban outdoor spaces
- Effect of synthetic surfaces and vegetation in urban areas on human energy balance and comfort
- Design of outdoor urban spaces for thermal comfort
- Topoclimatic aspects of developmental suitability in the metropolitan landscape
- Range of sound levels in the outdoor environment
- Outside and inside noise exposure in urban and suburban areas
- Study of traffic noise levels at various heights of a 39-story building
- Community noise monitoring program
- Sound absorption characteristics of tree bark and forest floor
- Evaluating effects of vegetation on the acoustical environment by physical scale-modeling
- Propagation of noise over and through a forest stand
- Some physical and psychological aspects of noise attenuation by vegetation
- Suburban noise control with plant materials and solid barriers
- Role of land use planning in noise control
- A first-approximation urban-air-quality indicator
- Use of a land-use-based emissions inventory in delineating clean-air zones
- Application of the urban mixing-depth concept to air pollution problems
- Air Pollution and urban climatology at Norfolk, Virginia
- Development of alternative sulfur dioxide control strategies for a metropolitan area and its environs, utilizing a modified climatological dispersion model
- Fugitive dust from vehicles traveling on unpaved roads
- Air quality as reflected by injury to metropolitan vegetation
- Sulfur pollution: an environmental study of Welland, Ontario
- Landfill gases and some effects on vegetation
- Characterization of biological particulate loads in metropolitan air
- Retention of particulate lead on foliage and twigs of a white pine windbreak
- A model for estimating air-pollutant uptake by forests: calculation of absorption of sulfur dioxide from dispersed sources
- Ecology of an urban park
- Man-made New Orleans: some interactions between the physical and esthetic environments
- Visual and functional components of the built environment: a case study of urban residential neighborhoods
- Environmental perceptions of residents of a multifunctional building
- Relocation within the urban environment
- Residential settings: effects of home and neighborhood on the quality of life for old people
- Behavioral significance of milieu: a consideration of two downtown settings
- Perception of high-density living in Hong Kong
- Visual land-use compatibility and scenic-resource quality
- A computerized model for integrating the physical environmental factors into metropolitan landscape planning
- Use of the Delphi method for determining community growth goals inventory: the Nashville experience
- Techniques of data analysis and presentation for planners of the metropolitan environment