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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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Neighbourhood identification and mental health: How social identification moderates the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and health
TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-effect neighbourhood identification model was proposed to investigate the relationship between neighbourhood SES and neighbourhood identification on mental health, and found that high neighbourhood identification attenuated the effect of neighbourhood socioeconomic status on perceived neighbourhood quality.
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Marine parks for coastal cities: A concept for enhanced community well-being, prosperity and sustainable city living
Simon J. Pittman,Lynda D. Rodwell,Rebecca Shellock,Rebecca Shellock,Rebecca Shellock,M. Williams,Martin J. Attrill,Jacob Bedford,K. Curry,Stephen Fletcher,Stephen Fletcher,Sarah C. Gall,Jason Lowther,Abigail McQuatters-Gollop,K.L. Moseley,K.L. Moseley,Siân E. Rees +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, a collaborative community-led marine park concept is proposed to enable communities to participate in activities that deepen understanding, value, care and enjoyment of the city seascape.
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Blue and Green Spaces as Therapeutic Landscapes: Health Effects of Urban Water Canal Areas of Isfahan
TL;DR: Investigating the canals in Isfahan from Iran that branch off from the Zayandeh Rood River and provide blue and green corridors to the city reveals that the canal plays an important therapeutic role on the physical, psychological, and social health conditions of local residents.
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Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review
Jackie Parker,Greg D. Simpson +1 more
TL;DR: A review of recent literature that reports on the psychological, physiological, general well-being, and wider societal benefits that humans receive as a result of experiencing public green infrastructure (PGI) and nature in urbanized landscapes is provided in this paper.
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Biocultural diversity (BCD) in European cities – Interactions between motivations, experiences and environment in public parks
Kati Vierikko,Paula Gonçalves,Dagmar Haase,Birgit Elands,Cristian Ioja,Mia Jaatsi,Mari Pieniniemi,Jasmina Lindgren,Filipa Grilo,Margarida Santos-Reis,Jari Niemelä,Vesa Yli-Pelkonen +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the interrelationships between uses, experiences and the environment by adopting a novel concept of urban biocultural diversity (BCD), identifying three interlinked spheres of urban BCD: materialised, lived and stewardship.
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