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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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Therapeutic landscapes and longevity: Wellness tourism in Bama.
Liyuan Huang,Honggang Xu +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that although three themes-natural environment, social interaction and symbolic landscape-work together in the healing process of tourists, the symbolic landscape, which is significantly shaped by the longevity culture, plays a dominant role.
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Religion/spirituality, therapeutic landscape and immigrant mental well-being amongst African immigrants to Canada
Boadi Agyekum,Bruce Newbold +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the experiences of African immigrants' religious place making and its relationship to health and well-being and found that places of worship are significant for physical health, social, emotional, spiritual, mental and general quality of life amongst immigrants.
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On the buses: a mixed-method evaluation of the impact of free bus travel for young people on the public health
Judith Green,Rebecca Steinbach,Alasdair Jones,Alasdair Jones,Phil Edwards,Charlotte Kelly,John Nellthorp,Anna Goodman,Helen Roberts,Mark Petticrew,Paul Wilkinson +10 more
TL;DR: The introduction of free bus travel for young people in London was associated with higher use of bus travel by adults and young people and 26% increase, 95% CI 13% to 41%, respectively, and the effects on older citizens of increased access to bus travel; and whether or not the intervention represented value for money.
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Materialities of mundane care and the art of holding one's own.
Julie Brownlie,Helen Spandler +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that materialities are not just the conduits for care - what care passes through - or things that mediate care but instead are part of how relationships of mundane care are constituted and maintained.
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Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: 'curating sociability' for refugees and asylum seekers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how asylum seekers and refugees experience urban greenspaces and propose curated sociability approaches as possible frameworks for supporting egalitarian participation and offering pathways to greater engagement.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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