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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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The inner dimension of sustainability transformation: how sense of place and values can support sustainable place-shaping
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the role of sense of place and place values in the context of sustainable place-shaping and propose a framework to operationalise them in research.
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Marginalisation, Discrimination and the Health of Latino Immigrant Day Labourers in a Central North Carolina Community
TL;DR: Health promotion with Latino immigrant men in new settlement areas could benefit from community-building activities, addressing discrimination, augmenting the reach of formal healthcare and building upon the informal mechanisms that immigrants rely on to meet their health needs.
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Smoking spaces as enabling spaces of wellbeing.
TL;DR: This paper argues that an acknowledgment of how smoking spaces in Singapore can be enabling along affectual, sensorial and social registers is long overdue and sitsuate the investigation of smoking geographies in the burgeoning literature on enabling spaces which focuses on how places co-constitute the authors' ability to act/affect in empowering ways.
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City dweller aspirations for cities of the future: How do environmental and personal wellbeing feature?
Helene Joffe,Nicholas Smith +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored what kinds of cities people aspire to live in, to ascertain whether these aspirations align with or undermine carbon reduced ways of living, as well as personal wellbeing, and found that only a minority of the participants' aspirations for cities relate to lowering carbon or environmental wellbeing.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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