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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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Spaces of Wellbeing for People with Learning Disabilities
TL;DR: The authors argue that there is potential within learning disability spaces and networks for wellbeing to flourish, through greater self-determination and presence in and attachment to local places, and the outcome is people with learning disabilities being able to find stability and build resilience in difficult bodily and social circumstances.
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Embedding Physical Activity in the Heart of the NHS: The Need for a Whole-System Approach.
TL;DR: The National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine in Sheffield is put forward as a case study to discuss some of the ways in which health systems can work in collaboration with other partners to develop environments and systems that promote active lives for patients and staff.
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Particular experiences: a psychosocial exploration of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and its relationship with self, environment and the material world
TL;DR: This article developed a psychosocial framework from which to explore previously neglected dimensions of the effect of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) on self experience, including the role played by the material environment and objects and conceptualizing their importance and relation to self and how it is affected by ME.
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How do people with learning disability experience the city centre? A Sheffield case study.
TL;DR: It was found that few of the participants had independent access to the city centre and many cited concerns over personal safety and the most did so with family and/or paid staff for pre-planned purposes, usually linked to shopping.
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DFAHP multicriteria risk assessment model for redeveloping derelict public buildings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Delphi method, fuzzy logic, and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) as a risk assessment model to redevelop derelict public buildings, which is beneficial in reducing the risk of the public sector investing in the reuse of abandoned public buildings.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Foundations of Social Theory
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The consequences of modernity
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
TL;DR: The conditions for city diversity, the generators of diversity, and the need for mixed primary uses are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the use of small blocks for small blocks.