Fig 1.
Location and areas of Lilongwe city (Malawi) and the green spaces within it.
Fig 2.
Methodological framework applied for this study.
Table 1.
Descriptions of the functional land use categories used in the study.
Table 2.
A detailed description of the landscape metrics.
Table 3.
A detailed description of the urban form metrics used in the study.
Table 4.
Urban green space per capita distribution in the neighbourhoods/areas in Lilongwe City (Note: Two areas were not included due to the lack of population data).
Fig 3.
Urban green space distribution.
(a) Urban Green Space at area level (NDVI derived from publicly available Sentinel-2 images) (b) Urban Green Space Index expressed in percentage at the area level.
Table 5.
Distribution of UGSI in Lilongwe city at the area/neighbourhood level.
Fig 4.
Relationship between population density and PCGS.
(a) Population density map of Lilongwe City prepared from the Malawi population and housing census report [26] by the authors, (b) Per Capita Green Space distribution of Lilongwe City.
Table 6.
Pearson correlation between population density and urban green space metrics.
Table 7.
Distribution of urban green spaces in functional land uses in Lilongwe City.
Table 8.
Composition and configuration of UGS in functional land use in Lilongwe City.
Table 9.
Correlations between urban green space and urban form metrics.