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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
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Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.About:
This article is published in Health & Place.The article was published on 2008-09-01. It has received 418 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sense of community & Social relation.read more
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Entitlement to concessionary public transport and wellbeing: a qualitative study of young people and older citizens in London, UK
TL;DR: It is concluded that the process, as well as the substance, of entitlement can mediate wellbeing; and that where the basis for providing a given entitlement is widely understood and accepted, the risks to wellbeing associated with enacting that entitlement will be reduced.
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Public Open Space Privatization and Quality of Life, Case Study Merdeka Square Medan
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how privatization of public open space affects the quality of life of people while many studies show degradation of "publicness" of public space due to privatization and found that people keep doing their social activities both in privatized and public area but physically segregated.
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Social capital and pet ownership - A tale of four cities.
Lisa Wood,Karen Martin,Hayley Christian,Stephen Houghton,Ichiro Kawachi,Shannen Vallesi,Sandra McCune +6 more
TL;DR: Pet ownership is significantly associated with higher levels of social capital in the U.S. and Australia and Pets are an under-recognized conduit for building social capital.
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Social venues that protect against and promote HIV risk for young men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
TL;DR: It is concluded that camps are strategic venues for HIV prevention programs for young Tanzanian men, serving as both protective and risk landscapes, illustrating three domains of the therapeutic landscape framework: the built environment; identities of landscape occupants; and sites for collective efficacy.
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Towards a developmental ethology: Exploring Deleuze’s contribution to the study of health and human development
TL;DR: A developmental ethology is introduced in exploring Deleuze’s contributions to the study of human development and its varied courses and processes and it is argued further that human development is advanced in the provision of new affective sensitivities and new relational capacities.
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