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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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Public spaces and happiness: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment.
TL;DR: The findings provide weak empirical evidence that visiting parks and community centers increase the probability of experiencing M‐SWB compared with commercial areas and weak evidence supporting the positive link between proximity to green or blue spaces and momentary happiness.
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Physical activity patterns in urban neighbourhood parks: insights from a multiple case study.
TL;DR: Patterns in park use and activity appeared to be associated with socio-demographic characteristics of the surrounding neighbourhoods as well as the physical and social environmental characteristics specific to each park.
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The role of natural environments within women's everyday health and wellbeing in Copenhagen, Denmark
TL;DR: Examining how experiences in different types of green and blue space provide important health and wellbeing benefits for women in Copenhagen, Denmark found that amongst some women who were overweight, the socio-political associations they made with natural environments deterred use of such spaces.
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Socio-demographic variation in motives for visiting urban green spaces in a large Chinese city
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors found that the nature-and exercise-dominated multiple motives call for multi-purpose management and multifunctional planning and design of the urban green spaces.
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Inpatient versus outpatient cervical priming for induction of labour: Therapeutic landscapes and women's preferences
TL;DR: A qualitative study was conducted in Australia to explore women's preferences for inpatient or outpatient settings for cervical priming for induction of labour, and found women were found to draw on a range of contextual factors to negotiate between the comfort of home and the perceived safety of the hospital.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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