Yinyin Dou

Abstract Urban parks are vital for the well-being of Earth’s 4.6 billion urban residents, yet their global distribution and impact on public welfare remain poorly understood. Here we analyzed 440,000 urban parks across 1860 cities worldwide, introducing the new Comprehensive Benefit Index (CBI) to assess their richness, greenness, and accessibility, while identifying gaps in urban park construction.

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Effective and timely quantification of the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion in China is important for the assessment of its environmental effects. However, the dynamics of the most recent urban expansions in China since 2012 have not yet been adequately explained due to a lack of current information. In this paper, our objective was to quantify spatiotemporal patterns of urban expansion in China between 1992 and 2015.