IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jlands/v14y2025i10p1968-d1760977.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Development, Characteristics, and Implications of Landscape Performance Evaluation of Greenways in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Juanyu Wu

    (School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
    State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building and Urban Science, Guangzhou 510640, China
    The Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Landscape Architecture, Guangzhou 510640, China)

  • Zhiying Xian

    (School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China)

  • Yi Luo

    (Department of Landscape Architecture, Florida University, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA)

  • Yongmei Xiong

    (Guangzhou Institute of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Guangzhou 510405, China)

Abstract

Greenways offer sustainable benefits at ecological, cultural and economic levels, enhancing human well-being. Landscape performance assessment is a crucial task for evaluating these benefits and guiding the sustainable development of greenways. To clarify the characteristics and roles of landscape performance in the development of the US greenway system, text analysis was conducted using KH Coder, and a meta-analysis was performed on three databases to select research cases on greenway performance evaluation in the US. The results show that the evaluation of social performance is higher than that of ecological and economic performances, and the data related to economic performance is more difficult to obtain. The efficacy of greenway projects varies with the construction stage and is influenced by social background and target benefits. The sustainability characteristics of high co-occurrence relationships are key to guiding greenway performance assessment, which helps in selecting indicators for evaluating greenways and providing references for improving planning directions. In the future, innovative technical means tailored to the goals of greenway landscapes should be used for performance evaluation.

Suggested Citation

  • Juanyu Wu & Zhiying Xian & Yi Luo & Yongmei Xiong, 2025. "Development, Characteristics, and Implications of Landscape Performance Evaluation of Greenways in the United States," Land, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-17, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:14:y:2025:i:10:p:1968-:d:1760977
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1968/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1968/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:14:y:2025:i:10:p:1968-:d:1760977. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.