Zmyslony, J. & D. Gagon, 1995, Residential management of urban front yard landscape: a random process?, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 40, 4
- Author : Zmyslony, J. & D. Gagon
- Year : 1995
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 4
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 40
- Pages : 295-307
- Abstract in English : Most investigations of urban vegetation and green spaces have focused on public areas, and especially on trees of the urban forest. Very little interest has been shown to the urban vegetation of private lots. In order to understand the management dynamics of urban residential vegetation at local scales, e studied no vegetated areas and the vegetation composition, distribution and structure of front yards in 17 successive street sections of a district in Montreal. The findings of this study provide strong support of our initial hypothesis, that management of front-yard vegetation and no vegetated areas in a street is not a random process. On the contrary, spatial structures of contagious form of all front-yard variables analysed suggest the existence of resident interactions in all those streets. The article strongly suggests that residents in a street section are influenced by shape, colour and location of the vegetation they see in the front yards of nearest neighbours
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: gardens, front yards, streets, planting design, landscape design.