Ismail Said

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a synthesis of 30 studies from 1985 to 2010 on children's use of outdoor environments, including methodological issues and factors that influence the use of the outdoor environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between legibility attributes (clear structure, visual obstacles, and accessibility) with social interaction (park engagement and the intensity of contact) within neighborhood parks and found that the level of visual obstruction was strongly linked with the quality of the edges and distances between park activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the physical and natural characters of selected green spaces including activities, attractions and settings, and found that diversity of subspaces including vegetation density, animal populations, undulating landforms and water bodies afford social interaction behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored residents' experiential contacts with green infrastructure in Taiping, a small town in Peninsular Malaysia, and found that various green infrastructure afford the residents participation in physical, leisure and social activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the behaviour of the surface temperature and the heat island effect of Putrajaya, a model city planned with concepts of a "city in the garden" and an "intelligent city" in the tropics.