Percentage of green urban areas in core cities

Topics: Urban environment , Biodiversity ,

This map shows the percentage of green urban areas in core cities

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Cities in their administrative borders; see: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/region_cities/city_urban.

Publish date:: 24 Feb 2011
Last upload:: 17 Feb 2011
Temporal coverage:: 2006
Tags:: urban | SOER2010 | green urban areas | quality of life | green space | health | urban environment | synthesis
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15
Methodology:: From the Urban Atlas classification vector dataset (2006) the classes 141, 142, 300 and 500 were extracted for core cities and summed up to a new class named Green Urban area. Next the percentage of Urban Green area compared to the total area was calculated of each core city yet available within the Urban Atlas database.
Units:: %
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Source:: EEA, Urban Atlas classification vector dataset (2006). http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Figure type:: Map