Welcome

 

The GreenUrbe Project aims at evaluating the impacts of green spaces on the quality of urban environment (air quality, noise and thermal comfort), and on the social well-being, under a particular spatial context - Bragança.

 

This Research Project is co-funded by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology and by the FEDER through program POCI 2010.

 

Project Reference: POCI/AMB/59174/2004

Period: October 2005 - October 2009 

 

 

Recent News

 

Soundscape evaluation in urban green spaces - The case study of Bragança, Portugal

Take a look at this poster presented at the  XIIIth World Forestry Congress, which occured in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
2009-11-10
 

Presentation poster for The GreenUrbe Project (PPCDT/AMB/59174/2004)

See this poster exposed at the conference Quality Of Urban Environment: New Challenges, which occured in Bragança, Portugal.

2009-10-16
 
 

Modeling as a tool for improvement of  the urban acustic quality: the case of Braguinha's Park (Bragança)

Take a look at this poster presented at the conference Quality Of Urban Environment: New Challenges, which occured in Bragança, Portugal.

2009-10-12

 
  

The Role of Urban Vegetation in Control of PM10 Concentrations

Take a look at this poster presented at the conference Quality Of Urban Environment: New Challenges, which occured in Bragança, Portugal.

2009-10-16

 
 

Conference "Quality of Urban Environment: New Challenges"

On the scope of the GreenUrbe Project, a conference will take place at the Superior Agrarian School of Bragança on the 8 and 9 October 2009, regarding subjects like:

  • New challenges of Urban Sustainability;
  • Urban Climate and Human Thermal Comfort;
  • Environmental risk factors and Public Health;
  • The impacts of Green Spaces in the Quality of Urban Environment;
  • Presentation and demonstration of tools for analysis of urban system.

 

 

2009-09-21

 

Green Space Influence on Thermal Comfort - Contrasting Approaches in the Assessement of Conditions in Bragança (Portugal)

Take a look at this poster presented at PLEA 2009 - Architecture Energy and the Occupant's Perspective, which occured at Québec in Canada.

 

2009-07-14 


The use of GIS on the Characterization and Analysis of the Green Urban Stucture - Bragança's Green Plan

Take a look at this poster presented at the 7th Encounter of ESRI Users - EUE' 09 - New Maps, One Course, which occured in Lisbon.

 
2009-05-18

 

 


The Use of ArcGIS on the GreenUrbe Project - Climate Mapping

Take a look at this poster presented at the 7th Encounter of ESRI Users - EUE' 09 - New Maps, One Course, which occured in Lisbon.

2009-05-11