NDLI: GIS analysis of urban schoolyard landcover in three U.S. cities

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Author	Schulman, Alexis Peters, Catherine A.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Although there has been considerable interest in the rejuvenation and greening of inner-city schoolyards for several decades, recent studies on the behavioral and environmental impacts of greenspace, particularly tree cover, suggest that greenspace on schools may be more important than previously understood. However, little is known about the conditions and landcover of urban schoolyards. To understand the structure of the landcover on city schoolyards, this study used Geographic Information System software to classify and compare landcover on 258 U.S. public elementary and middle schools in Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, and Detroit, MI. For all three cities, schoolyard was found to cover, on average, more than 68% of the school property, which was an average of 1.0–2.5 ha in size. Boston’s schoolyards (circa 1995) were notably smaller from those in Baltimore and Detroit, and they had far more impervious surface. On average, schoolyards were dominated by turf grass and impervious surface, while tree canopy occupied the smallest fraction of schoolyard landcover (approximately 10%). In light of these findings, we conclude by discussing how greening might be achieved on these and other yards.
Starting Page	65
Ending Page	80
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10838155
Journal	Urban Ecosystems
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731642
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2007-10-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Schoolyard Greenspace Urban forest Landcover GIS Nature Conservation Environmental Management Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Urban Studies

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